Auctions A Record-Setting Futurist Sculpture by Umberto Boccioni Carried Christie’s Workmanlike $191 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale Christie's opens fall auction week a solid, picture-by-picture approach. But results are still down 30 percent from last year. By Tim Schneider, Nov 11, 2019
Auctions Auction Guarantees Lifted the Art Market to Record-Breaking Heights. The Only Problem? The Golden Age of Guarantees Is Over These lucrative hedges were once the financial instrument of choice for speculators and market manipulators, but now they’ve lost their luster. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 10, 2019
Auctions Hot Lots: 7 Tantalizingly Undervalued Artworks in New York’s Fall Auctions, According to the Experts We spoke to the experts at Artnet Auctions to identify big opportunities in the postwar and contemporary sales. By Tim Schneider, Nov 10, 2019
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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
Auctions 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