Auctions Sotheby’s Will Shoot for the Moon with a Multimillion-Dollar Sale of Buzz Aldrin’s Personal Belongings Later This Month Included in the sale is the broken circuit breaker that almost doomed Apollo 11—and the pen Aldrin used to fix it. By Artnet News, Jul 19, 2022
Auctions A Vampire-Hunting Kit Purportedly From the 19th Century Sells for $20,000 in the U.K., Exploding Its Meager $2,400 Estimate The hunting kit went to a collector in the U.K. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 15, 2022
Auctions Phillips Announces a Record $746 Million in Auction and Private Sales for First Half of 2022, Another Sign of the Peaking Art Market The auction house also revealed the opening of its first Los Angeles outpost. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 15, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Sold a Jean Prouvé Table for $1.6 Million Last Month—But Didn’t Mention It Might Contain Asbestos An eagle-eyed antique dealer realized there was more to the "Granipoli concrete" table than met the eye. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 14, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Reports Total Sales Hit $4.1 Billion in the First Half of 2022, Its Best Performance Since 2015 Still, clouds were gathering on the horizon with respect to Asian buyers and NFT sales. By Eileen Kinsella, Jul 12, 2022
Auctions Pop Star Halsey Is Auctioning Off Five Drawings She Made Live Onstage to Benefit Reproductive Rights The works are expected to fetch around $7,000 each at Sotheby's. By Vittoria Benzine, Jul 12, 2022
Auctions New Analog Recording of Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ Makes Nearly $2 Million at Auction This version of the famous song features a full band, and is the only copy that will ever be manufactured or released. By Sarah Cascone, Jul 8, 2022
Auctions Dino-mania Shows No Sign of Extinction as Sotheby’s Offers a Rare Gorgosaurus Skeleton Estimated up to $8 Million One of the best preserved specimens of the prehistoric apex predator is coming to auction for the first time. By Dorian Batycka, Jul 6, 2022
Auctions A Painting of a Church Choir by Ernie Barnes—This Spring’s Breakout Auction Star—Could Fetch Upwards of $700,000 at Bonhams This Fall The work was commissioned by the artist's friend and has never before been seen by the public By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jul 6, 2022
Auctions Simon de Pury Is Launching a Novel Series of Auctions Where All Artworks Will Be Consigned Directly From Artists and Galleries Designed to help artists benefit from speculation, the first event takes place on August 5 and will be led by a digital avatar of de Pury. By Artnet News, Jul 5, 2022
Auctions Just in Time for Independence Day, Sotheby’s Is Auctioning a Crucial Precursor to the Bill of Rights That Could Sell for $5 Million The sale of the historic document will benefit the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums, with locations around the country. By Dorian Batycka, Jul 1, 2022
Auctions Phillips’s Trim Summer London Sale Generates $21.3 Million, Less Than Half the 2019 Total, as the Art Market Enters a Phase of Caution The market for work by young artists appears to be getting more choosy. By Katya Kazakina, Jun 30, 2022
Auctions Francis Bacon’s $52.7 Million Portrait of Lucian Freud Was the Star of Sotheby’s Otherwise Lackluster London Sales A night of few fireworks suggests the auction market is beginning to feel the recession downwind. By Naomi Rea, Jun 30, 2022
Auctions Christie’s London to Paris Sale Makes a Steady $248 Million, Led by Blue-Chip Mainstays and a $12.4 Million Jeff Koons Monkey Proceeds from the Koons, sold by Viktor and Olena Pinchuk, will benefit humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. By Vivienne Chow, Jun 28, 2022
Auctions Bonhams’s Shopping Spree Continues as It Acquires Its Fourth Auction House This Year French auction house Cornette de Saint Cyr is the latest addition to the Bonhams global network, which focuses on the market of $1 million or below. By Vivienne Chow, Jun 28, 2022
