From a Broadway Producer’s Picasso to a Record-Smashing Ruscha, Here’s Your Guide to the Top Works in the $1 Billion Fall Auction Season

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From a Broadway Producer’s Picasso to a Record-Smashing Ruscha, Here’s Your Guide to the Top Works in the $1 Billion Fall Auction Season

High-price masterpieces are in short supply and estimates are down almost 40 percent from last year. But there's still plenty to look out for.

By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 6, 2019

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Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs Is Selling Off His Entire Art Collection, Including a $3 Million Ed Ruscha

Jacobs says he’s clearing out the old to make way for the new.

By Sarah Cascone, Oct 31, 2019

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This Bronze Sculpture Touted as a Leonardo da Vinci Was Supposed to Fetch $50 Million at Auction. Instead, It Flopped With Zero Bids

The sculpture, a bronze cast of a beeswax model, has been the subject of much speculation in scholarship circles.

By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 31, 2019

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Christie’s Is Selling a $50 Million Collection Featuring Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo Flower Paintings and a Moody Magritte

The collection will be sold across a series of sales through March.

By Sarah Cascone, Oct 30, 2019

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Basquiat’s Painting of a Triumphant Warrior in a Boxing Ring Could Fetch $15 Million at Phillips This Fall

The artist grew up watching boxing with his father.

By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 28, 2019

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A Late Billionaire Collector’s Foundation Is Selling Off Artworks by Bill Traylor and Others to Benefit a Harlem Children’s Charity

The William Louise-Dreyfus Foundation is offering the work through Sotheby's, Christie's, and David Zwirner.

By Sarah Cascone, Oct 28, 2019

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New Sotheby’s Owner Patrick Drahi Replaces CEO Tad Smith With a Trusted Turnaround Wizard

New CEO Charles Stewart was most recently CFO of Drahi's company Altice USA.

By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 28, 2019

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An Alma Thomas Painting That Is Set to Break Records at Christie’s Was Previously Owned by Bill Cosby

The painting is expected to sell for between $2.2 million and $2.8 million.

By Nate Freeman, Oct 25, 2019

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Feverish Bidders Snapped Up All 274 Works in a Triumphant Sotheby’s Sale From the Collection of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne

The sale quadrupled its high presale estimate and drew more that 4,000 bidders.

By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 25, 2019

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Sotheby’s Is Hoping to Shake Up a Quiet Auction Season by Raking In $35 Million for This Rare Mark Rothko Painting

It's one of the auction house's marquee lots this fall.

By Sarah Cascone, Oct 24, 2019

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A Whimsical Menagerie of Splendorous Beasts by the Lalannes Is Up for Sale at Sotheby’s—See Works From the Auction Here

The auction house is selling off works that belonged to the famed couple.

By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 18, 2019

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Christie’s Hong Kong Seeks to Seize a $33 Million Record for Chinese-French Modernist Sanyu

With its ambitious estimate, Christie's hopes to outdo Sanyu's current world auction record of $25 million this November.

By Tim Schneider, Oct 16, 2019

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A Recently Discovered Portrait by Nigerian Star Ben Enwonwu Sold for Nearly Eight Times Its Estimate at Sotheby’s London

Some see the sale as a bellwether for the market for modern and contemporary art from Africa.

By Kate Brown, Oct 16, 2019

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The Brooklyn Museum Is Selling This Rare Francis Bacon Pope Painting at Sotheby’s to Raise Money for Other Acquisitions

The painting, estimated to fetch as much as $8 million, is one of only six surviving canvases from the artist's turbulent time in Tangier.

By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 16, 2019

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Sotheby’s Is Making Major Changes to Its Executive Leadership in the Wake of Patrick Drahi’s Acquisition

Drahi has replaced CFO Mike Goss and executive vice president John Cahill with the CEO of his family office.

By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 7, 2019