Auctions To Honor Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, Sotheby’s Will Sell British Art and Show Historic Portraits in a Month-Long Program in London The auction house will also sell contemporary tiaras. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 13, 2022
Auctions The Toledo Museum of Art Will Deaccession Three Impressionist Paintings That Could Fetch More Than $60 Million at Sotheby’s The museum will divest itself of a Cézanne, a Matisse, and a Renoir to double its acquisition funds. By Katya Kazakina, Apr 13, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Hong Kong Hopes to Nab Up to $20 Million This Month With a Rare, Wall-Mounted Louise Bourgeois Spider Sculpture Sotheby's hopes the rare sculpture appeals to Asian collectors' growing appetite for work by Western artists. By Vivienne Chow, Apr 12, 2022
Auctions For the Third Time in Its History, Christie’s Will Sell One of the World’s Largest Diamonds to Benefit the Red Cross Proceeds from the sale of the 205-carat Red Cross Diamond at Christie's will go toward the humanitarian organization. By Artnet News, Apr 12, 2022
Auctions A Rare $10 Gold Coin Designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Teddy Roosevelt’s Insistence Fetches $1.1 Million at Auction This version of the Indian Eagle $10 was put into production by mistake, hence its rarity. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 8, 2022
Auctions Prime-Period Picasso Portrait of His Muse Could Sell for More Than $60 Million at Sotheby’s Next Month The artist painted the large-scale work during his "annus mirabilis" of 1932. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 7, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Will Sell the Complete Storied Collection of Swiss Connoisseurs Doris and Thomas Ammann This Spring Christie's hopes the sale is the biggest since the 2018 Rockefeller collection sale. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 6, 2022
Auctions An Invisible Artwork by Yves Klein Just Sold for More Than $1 Million at Sotheby’s The winning bidder scored a receipt for a “zone of empty space,” created by Klein in 1959. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 6, 2022
Auctions A Newly Reattributed Michelangelo Drawing Could Fetch $30 Million at Christie’s Paris Next Month The drawing last sold in 1907 at the Hôtel Drouot auction house as a work of the school of Michelangelo. By Artnet News, Apr 6, 2022
Auctions Fugitive Billionaire Joseph Lau Will Auction Off Millions of Dollars in Art and Wine to Make Up for Stock Market Losses Lau is selling off eight pieces of Chinese imperial porcelain at Sotheby's, plus rare wines at Christie's. By Sarah Cascone, Apr 4, 2022
Auctions Squish! The Louvre Puts the Kibosh on the $26.8 Million Sale of Chardin’s Record-Setting Strawberry Painting The museum, hoping to acquire the treasured artwork, has requested that it be classified as a French national treasure. By Taylor Dafoe, Apr 1, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Lands the Coveted Art Collection of Late Philanthropist Anne Bass, Which Could Fetch $250 Million in May Twelve artworks will make up a dedicated sale the week of May 9 in New York. By Taylor Dafoe, Mar 31, 2022
Auctions The First-Ever Sample of Dust Collected From the Moon Is Coming to Auction. NASA Thinks It Belongs to the People After a theft and a lawsuit, the lunar sample is hitting the auction block once again. By Caroline Goldstein, Mar 30, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Hurriedly Withdraws Two Lots From an Upcoming Antiquities Sale That May Have Been Looted The objects were dropped from the sale after an archaeologist pointed out their ties to two dealers linked to the illicit trade. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
Auctions An Unassuming Chardin Strawberry Painting Fetches a Record-Shattering $26.8 Million at Auction, Shocking Market-Watchers The luminous 18th-century still life is the only known instance in which he painted strawberries. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 25, 2022
