Auctions An ‘Asterix’ Cover Painting Fails to Sell at Auction After the Artist’s Daughter Claims It Was Stolen The auction house’s director general says buyers may have been scared off by the legal complaint. By Brian Boucher, Dec 11, 2023
Auctions The U.K.’s Oldest Known Scientific Instrument, Dubbed an ‘Early Computer,’ Heads to Auction The Medieval device was designed to tell time by tracking the position of the sun. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 11, 2023
Auctions That Famous $5 Tutu from ‘Sex and the City’ Could Fetch $12,000 at Auction Carrie Bradshaw's thrift-store skirt hits the block alongside outfits worn by Princess Diana and Grace Kelly. By Artnet News, Dec 7, 2023
Auctions Will a $2 Million Caspar David Friedrich Sketchbook Remain in Germany? The sketchbook has been nominated for protected status as a cultural asset, despite selling at auction. By Verity Babbs, Dec 4, 2023
Auctions Jay-Z Is Auctioning Custom Library Cards to Benefit the Brooklyn Public Library The sale caps the rapper's autobiographical "The Book of HOV" exhibition at the library, which closes December 5. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 2, 2023
Auctions A Royal Portrait by Diego Velázquez Heads to Auction for the First Time in Half a Century The work is expected to fetch $35 million when it hits the block at Sotheby's New York. By Adam Schrader, Nov 30, 2023
Auctions By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Christie’s Hong Kong’s Post-Millennium Evening Sale, November 2023 Let the numbers tell the story. By Vivienne Chow, Nov 29, 2023
Auctions By the Numbers: A Breakdown of Results From Christie’s Hong Kong’s 20th/21st Century Evening Sale, November 2023 Get the stats behind the spin. By Vivienne Chow, Nov 29, 2023
Auctions How Do You Make $191,000 From a $4 Painting? You Don’t How a New Hampshire woman tried—and failed—to sell an N.C. Wyeth painting she bought at a thrift store. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 29, 2023
Auctions Two Rare Paintings by Sienese Master Pietro Lorenzetti Come to Light After a Century in Obscurity The pair of panels is the latest discovery of art historian-detective Eric Turquin. By Brian Boucher, Nov 28, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s New York Headquarters to Welcome a New Tenant Cornell University’s medical school and research arm in New York will take five floors in the auction house's York Avenue building. By Katya Kazakina, Nov 28, 2023
Auctions A Still Life by Dutch Master Clara Peeters, Unseen for a Century, Heads to Auction The artist’s current auction high is $1.7 million, set at Paris auction house Ferri in 1998. By Brian Boucher, Nov 27, 2023
Auctions Gucci and Christie’s Team Up for an Auction Exploring Fashion, Art, and Technology "Parallel Universes: From Future Frequencies to Gucci Cosmos" features nine artists focusing on generative systems. By Artnet News, Nov 22, 2023
Auctions Who Won Auction Week? Here Are 9 Takeaways From New York’s Nearly $2 Billion Fall Sales From the priciest work to the wettest paint (and more), here are our parting observations from New York's marquee auctions this November. By Artnet News, Nov 21, 2023
Auctions Seller’s Remorse: How a Thrift Store Owner Let a $191,000 Painting Slip Through His Fingers for $4 “Obviously we missed the boat," he said. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Nov 21, 2023
