Auctions Christie’s Hopes to Open a New Frontier of the Art Market With the First-Ever Major Auction of a Wholly Digital Blockchain Artwork The starting price for the work is just $100. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 16, 2021
Auctions A 1982 Basquiat Is Expected to Fetch Over $30 Million at Christie’s Hong Kong, Setting a Record for a Western Artist in Asia The sale shows confidence in the appetite for Western art in Asia. By Naomi Rea, Feb 11, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Has Closed Off Public Access to Its 255-Year-Old Auction Archive, a Major Resource for Scholars, Citing Budget Concerns The library is considered to be the most comprehensive auction archive in the world. By Artnet News, Feb 11, 2021
Auctions Undaunted by Restitution and Authenticity Claims From Mexico, Christie’s Pulls in a Solid $3 Million at Its Sale of Pre-Columbian Art in Paris The auction house said all the works were "legitimately sold." By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 9, 2021
Auctions New York’s Shuttered KGB Museum Is Auctioning Off Its Entire Collection of Spycams, Poison Containers, and Lenin Art This Weekend Julien’s Auctions is selling off the museum's entire collection. By Brian Boucher, Feb 9, 2021
Auctions A Pair of Size-12.5 Nike Basketball Sneakers Designed for Barack Obama Are Dropping on Presidents’ Day Weekend—for $25,000 The sneakers go on offer at 4:44 p.m. Friday in honor of the 44th president. By Brian Boucher, Feb 8, 2021
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
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
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
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
