Auctions The Gun That Vincent van Gogh Is Believed to Have Used to Kill Himself Just Sold for $182,000 at Auction The more than 100-year-old weapon doubled its estimate at a Paris auction today. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 19, 2019
Auctions What the Sotheby’s Sale Means for the Future of the Art Industry—and How It Reflects a Broader Shift in Global Economics Patrick Drahi's acquisition of Sotheby's is the latest in a long line of public companies-gone-private. Here's what it means. By Eileen Kinsella & Tim Schneider, Jun 19, 2019
Auctions Late Picasso Works Save an Otherwise Lackluster $46 Million Impressionist and Modern Art Sale at Christie’s London Meanwhile, Barbara Hepworth and Frank Bowling headlined the auction house's lively Modern British art sale. By Colin Gleadell, Jun 18, 2019
Auctions French Media Tycoon Patrick Drahi Has Acquired Sotheby’s for $3.7 Billion, Taking the Publicly Traded Auction House Private Sotheby's will no longer trade on the New York Stock Exchange. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 17, 2019
Auctions Here are the 12 Weirdest Items From the Burt Reynolds Estate Sale, Ranked From Badass to Just Bad From his sexy, sexy pajamas to props from 'Friends' to some actual (terrifying) art, the sale captures the actor’s ups and downs. By Taylor Dafoe, Jun 14, 2019
Auctions A-Rod Is Selling Basquiat and Richard Prince Works at Phillips to Start a New Collection With Fiancée Jennifer Lopez The star athlete says he's starting a new chapter as a collector. By Eileen Kinsella, Jun 13, 2019
Auctions The Light-Up Cane That Helped Save Shipwrecked Titanic Survivors Is Coming to Auction At the time, the battery-powered light was cutting-edge technology. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 12, 2019
Auctions Egypt Tries to Halt the Auction of a King Tut Sculpture Amid Accusations That It Could Have Been Looted Egypt's most high-profile archaeologist wants the $5 million sculpture of the boy king to be repatriated. By Naomi Rea, Jun 11, 2019
Auctions Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ and an Offbeat Modigliani Will Lead Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Auctions in London This Month The auction house is following up its record-setting $111 million Monet last month. By Sarah Cascone, Jun 7, 2019
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
