Auctions A 15th-Century Chinese Porcelain Bowl Bought for $35 at a Connecticut Yard Sale Just Sold for Over $700,000 at Auction There are only six other bowls of its kind known to exist. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 18, 2021
Auctions A $35 Million Monet Will Highlight Christie’s New 20th-Century Evening Sale as the Auction House Shakes Up Its Departmental Categories The auction house is redefining what it means by Modern and contemporary art. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 17, 2021
Auctions Not to Be Left Out, Sotheby’s Is Wading Into the NFT Fray With an Auction by the Anonymous Digital Artist Pak Sotheby's says Pak is "wizard." Seriously! By Brian Boucher, Mar 16, 2021
Auctions Early in Her Career, Yayoi Kusama Gave Her Doctor 11 Artworks for Free Medical Care. Now, They Could Fetch $14 Million at Auction The three paintings and eight works on paper will hit the auction block at Bonhams in May. By Artnet News, Mar 16, 2021
Auctions A New York Lawmaker Has Proposed a Bill to Increase Taxes on Auction Sales to Fund Public Art Education The high-end art market might be coming under increased scrutiny as budgets tighten. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 15, 2021
Auctions ‘This Is Going to Be a Billion-Dollar Piece Someday’: The Buyer of the $69 Million Beeple NFT on Why It’s the Greatest Artwork in a Generation Singapore-based NFT collectors Metakovan and Twobadour want to build "a massive monument" to their new work. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 12, 2021
Auctions An NFT Artwork by Beeple Just Sold for an Unbelievable $69 Million at Christie’s—Making Him the Third Most Expensive Living Artist at Auction The event marks the auction house's first-ever NFT sale. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 11, 2021
Auctions An Ultra-Rare Satirical Cookbook Created by a Young Andy Warhol to Poke Fun at Haute Cuisine Is Hitting the Auction Block The cookbook features calligraphy by the Pop art great's mother. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 9, 2021
Auctions Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Is Auctioning Off the World’s First-Ever Tweet as an NFT—and the High Bid Is Already $2.5 Million The tech world is in thrall to NFTs. By Brian Boucher, Mar 9, 2021
Auctions Signaling an Enduring Appetite for Young Art, Phillips’s ‘New Now’ Sale Brings in a Record $9.5 Million The sale also saw 20 new artist auction records set. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 4, 2021
Auctions Christie’s Sale of Man Ray Works Was a Smashing Success—But the Artist’s Trust Says the $7.1 Million Auction Never Should Have Happened Contested ownership claims failed to dampen collector interest in the auction. By Eileen Kinsella, Mar 3, 2021
Auctions Winston Churchill Made a Painting and Gave It to FDR. Then Angelina Jolie Got It. She Just Sold It for $11.6 Million at Christie’s The top lot of the sale set a new auction record for a work by the wartime prime minister. By Naomi Rea, Mar 2, 2021
Auctions A Bargain Hunter Picked Up This Small Ceramic Bowl for $35 at a Junk Sale. Now, It Could Sell for Up to $500,000 at Sotheby’s As it turns out, it's an exceedingly rare example of Ming Dynasty porcelain. By Caroline Goldstein, Feb 26, 2021
Auctions Treasures From the Blue-Chip Art Collection of Texas Oil Heiress Anne Marion Could Fetch $150 Million at Sotheby’s The late billionaire assembled a collection of 20th-century American masterworks that has rarely been seen in public. By Artnet News, Feb 24, 2021
Auctions A Vincent van Gogh Landscape Never Before Seen in Public Could Fetch Nearly $10 Million at Auction Next Month The painting has been housed in the private collection of a French family for more than a century. By Eileen Kinsella, Feb 24, 2021