Auctions The Estate of Late Antiquities Dealer Forrest Fenn, Who Hid a $2 Million Treasure Chest in the Mountains, Is Heading to Auction Highlights include one of Sitting Bull's pipes. By Sarah Cascone, May 23, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Closes the Spring New York Auction Season With a Double-Header Contemporary Art Sale That Nets $283.4 Million The house hosted two sales Thursday night to round out two weeks of auction action. By Annie Armstrong, May 19, 2022
Auctions A British Surgeon Bought a Chinese Vase for a Few Hundred Pounds in the 1980s. It Just Sold for $1.9 Million It turned out to be from the 18th-century Qianlong period. By Dorian Batycka, May 19, 2022
Auctions Phillips’s $225 Million Evening Sale Marks Its Biggest-Ever Night, Led by an Astounding Basquiat Basquiat's 'Untitled' alone drew $85 million on an evening the house's deputy chairman Robert Manley called 'historic.' By Annie Armstrong, May 18, 2022
Auctions A Maud Lewis Painting Once Traded for Grilled Cheese Sandwiches Fetches a Sizzling 10 Times Its Estimate at Auction The work set a new record for the Canadian folk artist. By Dorian Batycka, May 18, 2022
Auctions A Michelangelo Drawing Just Sold at Christie’s for $21 Million, the Highest Price Ever Paid for a Work by the Old Master at Auction The drawing was rediscovered in 2019. By Jo Lawson-Tancred, May 18, 2022
Auctions Sotheby’s Notched a Solid $408.5 Million Modern Art New York Sale Fueled by the Reliable Churn of Blue-Chip Monets and Picassos The sale set new records for Milton Avery and Leonora Carrington. By Eileen Kinsella, May 17, 2022
Auctions The $922 Million Macklowe Sale at Sotheby’s Displaces the Rockefeller Estate as the Priciest Private Art Trove in Auction History The second chapter of the divorced couple's collection made $246.1 million, exceeding pre-sale expectations. By Katya Kazakina, May 16, 2022
Auctions This Iconic Man Ray Print Just Became the Most Expensive Photograph Ever Sold at Auction The sale was dedicated to the Surrealism-heavy collection of Rosalind Gersten Jacobs and Melvin Jacobs. By Taylor Dafoe, May 16, 2022
Auctions Ernie Barnes Stole the Show at Christie’s With His $15.3 Million Painting. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About ‘The Sugar Shack’ The painting had a prominent role in the groundbreaking sitcom "Good Times." By Sarah Cascone, May 16, 2022
Auctions ‘The Secret’s Out’: Bill Perkins, Buyer of the Record-Smashing Ernie Barnes Painting at Christie’s, Tells Us About His Auction Coup of a Lifetime "I'm not gonna stop," Perkins' main competition told him in the auction room. But the amateur poker player walked away with his "treasure." By Eileen Kinsella, May 13, 2022
Auctions Christie’s Rakes in $831 Million in an Auction Double-Header, Nearly Half of Which Came From the Anne Bass Collection The sales surpassed their combined $792 million high estimate. By Eileen Kinsella, May 12, 2022
Auctions Bidders From Asia and Works by Young Artists Propel Christie’s $103.1 Million 21st-Century Art Auction Ten new records for works by artists including Ewa Juszkiewicz and Joel Mesler were also set. By Katya Kazakina, May 10, 2022
Auctions Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Belongings, Including a Picasso and a Tea Set, Fetch $800,000 at Auction—More Than 10 Times the Estimate Art, antiques, theatre programs and clothing went under the hammer for charity. By Amah-Rose Abrams, May 10, 2022
Auctions As Andy Warhol’s $195 Million ‘Marilyn’ Makes Auction History, We Look Back on the Artist’s 11 Priciest Works Here are the most expensive works by Warhol ever sold at auction. By Caroline Goldstein, May 9, 2022
