Auctions A Long-Forgotten ‘Lewis Chessman’ Piece That Languished in a Drawer for Decades Could Fetch $1.2 Million at Auction Next Month It is one of the long-lost pieces from a Lewis Chessman set. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 3, 2019
Auctions In Another Deaccessioning Spree, the Art Institute of Chicago Is Selling 300 Works of Chinese Art at Christie’s This Fall The museum previously sold $3.1 million in jade carvings at Sotheby's New York in March. By Sarah Cascone, May 29, 2019
Auctions Who Were the Breakout Stars of New York’s Spring Art Auctions? We Crunched the Numbers to Find Out Data shows which new entrants to Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips contemporary sales sparked the fiercest bidding in New York. By Tim Schneider, May 23, 2019
Auctions A Laptop Infected With Six of the World’s Most Dangerous Computer Viruses Is Up for Auction. The Bid Is Now More Than $1.2 Million The malware was installed by an artist on a Samsung notebook from 2008. By Taylor Dafoe, May 22, 2019
Auctions Who Won Auction Week? Here Are 15 Key Takeaways From New York’s Eyebrow-Singeing $2 Billion Spring Art Sales From the most expensive work to the biggest flop, here are our parting observations from last week's auction marathon. By Tim Schneider & Eileen Kinsella, May 20, 2019
Auctions Francis Bacon’s Screaming Pope and a String of Artist Records Deliver Sotheby’s a Robust $342 Million Contemporary Sale Francis Bacon's "Study for a Head" and Mark Rothko's "Untitled" each netted $50 million, while new marks were set for Lee Krasner and others. By Tim Schneider, May 16, 2019
Auctions De Kooning and KAWS Lend Multi-Generational Firepower to Phillips’s Solid $100 Million Modern and Contemporary Sale The street artist KAWS fared especially well, as two paintings by the neo-Pop artist soared past their estimates. By Brian Boucher, May 16, 2019
Auctions Jeff Koons’s Bunny Sets a New Record for a Living Artist in Christie’s Half-Billion-Dollar Postwar and Contemporary Art Sale Koons's 'Rabbit' was part of a blue-chip collection of work belonging to the late publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse. By Eileen Kinsella, May 15, 2019
Auctions A Record-Shattering $111 Million Monet Powers an Otherwise Staid $350 Million Impressionist and Modern Sale at Sotheby’s Overall, the sale provided more solidity than stimulation. By Tim Schneider, May 14, 2019
Auctions This Roy Lichtenstein Mural Once Decorated the Bathroom of a Famed Playboy. Now It Could Be Yours for $1.2 Million The bespoke work was one of many to populate Gunter Sachs’s famous, Swiss, pop-art-filled apartment. By Taylor Dafoe, May 14, 2019
Auctions Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Sale Soars to $400 Million, Fueled by Treasures Once Owned by Condé Nast’s S.I. Newhouse A Cézanne picture that was famously stolen and recovered in 1999 led the way at $52 million. By Eileen Kinsella, May 13, 2019
Auctions Here’s What to Expect at the $1.3 Billion Spring Auctions in New York, From a $58 Million Koons to a Once-Lost Cézanne All the highlights from the Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art auctions in New York next week. By Eileen Kinsella, May 9, 2019
Auctions ‘They Are the Greatest Family of Non-Royal Collectors Ever’: See 7 Highlights From the Prestigious Rothschild Family Sale at Christie’s A writing desk commissioned by Marie Antoinette and a painting by Fragonard are among the lots on offer. By Caroline Goldstein, May 8, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Posts a Widened Loss in the First Quarter of 2019 Amid a Dip in Private Sales and a Shift in the Auction Calendar Sotheby's posted a $7.1 million loss in the first quarter of 2019, but CEO Tad Smith remained optimistic heading into the marquee May sales. By Eileen Kinsella, May 2, 2019
Auctions Sotheby’s Veteran David Norman, Who Helped Sell the First Work of Art to Break $100 Million at Auction, Joins Phillips Norman led Sotheby's record-setting $104 million sale of a work by Picasso in 2004. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 29, 2019