Auctions Angelina Jolie Is Selling the Only Painting Winston Churchill Made During World War II—and It Could Fetch $3.4 Million at Christie’s The painting hits the block on March 1. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 1, 2021
Auctions Sotheby’s Raked in a Robust $26.7 Million With an Auction of Works Owned by the Eclectic Late Collector Hester Diamond The sale featured a standout painting by Pieter Coecke Van Aelst. By Judd Tully, Feb 1, 2021
Market In an Explosive Claim, an Art Dealer Says the Hermitage’s Fabergé Exhibition Is Full of ‘Tawdry Fakes’ From a Single Oligarch’s Collection Art dealer Andre Ruzhnikov says that more than 20 works in the show are forgeries. By Simon Hewitt, Jan 30, 2021
Auctions A Single Mystery Collector Went on a Buying Spree at Sotheby’s $114 Million Old Masters Auction, With Botticelli Just the Beginning All told, a single buyer spent nearly $95 million at the sale. By Judd Tully, Jan 28, 2021
Auctions A Deep-Pocketed Art Collector Just Dropped More Than $92 Million at Sotheby’s on This Pristine Botticelli Portrait The artwork is one of only three by the artist that remain in private hands. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 28, 2021
Auctions See a Life-Size Model of the World’s Oldest Man and Other Aggressively Bizarre Things the Guinness World Records Museum Is Auctioning Off Who doesn’t want a model of the world's hungriest sword swallower in their home? By Artnet News, Jan 28, 2021
Art Fairs The Independent Art Fair in New York Will Move to a New Downtown Cipriani and Have a Refreshed Format for Its 2021 Edition The 12th edition of the fair is set to take place in September. By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 27, 2021
Auctions Phillips’s Total Sales Declined to $760 Million Last Year, a 16 Percent Drop From 2019 The company’s 2020 decrease was on par with rival Sotheby’s. By Artnet News, Jan 26, 2021
Auctions Artworks Owned by the Late Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus Highlighted Christie’s Somewhat Muted $2 Million Outsider Art Sale Bill Traylor, Martin Ramirez, and Thornton Dial were stars of the show. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 22, 2021
Auctions An Unopened First Edition Set of Pokémon Cards, Deemed ‘the Pinnacle of Pokémon Collecting,’ Just Fetched $408,000 at Auction It turns out playing with your Pokémon cards was a big mistake. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 22, 2021
Art Fairs Art Basel Has Again Postponed Its Flagship Swiss Fair, Rolling Out Three Online Viewing Rooms Instead to Keep Business Afloat The IRL edition of the fair is now scheduled to take place in September. By Naomi Rea, Jan 21, 2021
Market France Has Revised Its System for Exporting Art and Antiques, Removing Red Tape that Has Long Hindered Trade The changes could make France more attractive as a market for overseas buyers in some key disciplines. By Ivan Macquisten, Jan 20, 2021
Auctions This Rare Color Tintin Drawing Just Sold for €3.2 Million, Setting a New World Record for an Original Comic Strip The artwork was originally supposed to serve as the cover for the Tintin comic "The Blue Lotus." By Sarah Cascone, Jan 14, 2021
Galleries The French Government Is Giving Commercial Art Galleries €2 Million to Help Keep Them Alive Through Lockdown The country is switching up its strategy to support its art scene. By Naomi Rea, Jan 12, 2021
Art Fairs Expo Chicago Pushes Back Its April Dates, Becoming the First 2021 Art Fair to Postpone an In-Person Event The fair will hold a digital edition in April, with a virtual symposium slated for later this month. By Caroline Goldstein, Jan 11, 2021
