Auctions Phillips’s Total Sales Declined to $760 Million Last Year, a 16 Percent Drop From 2019 The company’s 2020 decrease was on par with rival Sotheby’s. By Artnet News, Jan 26, 2021
Auctions Artworks Owned by the Late Billionaire William Louis-Dreyfus Highlighted Christie’s Somewhat Muted $2 Million Outsider Art Sale Bill Traylor, Martin Ramirez, and Thornton Dial were stars of the show. By Eileen Kinsella, Jan 22, 2021
Auctions An Unopened First Edition Set of Pokémon Cards, Deemed ‘the Pinnacle of Pokémon Collecting,’ Just Fetched $408,000 at Auction It turns out playing with your Pokémon cards was a big mistake. By Sarah Cascone, Jan 22, 2021
Auctions This Rare Color Tintin Drawing Just Sold for €3.2 Million, Setting a New World Record for an Original Comic Strip The artwork was originally supposed to serve as the cover for the Tintin comic "The Blue Lotus." By Sarah Cascone, Jan 14, 2021
Auctions Top Auction Houses Saw Total Sales Drop in 2020—But Sotheby’s Outpaced Rival Christie’s With $5 Billion in Revenue Private sales, online sales, and demand from Asia are driving growth. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 18, 2020
Auctions Sotheby’s Is Selling Off the Collection of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Including Cookie Jars Once Owned by Andy Warhol The cookie jars used to sit on Christo and Jeanne-Claude's refrigerator. By Brian Boucher, Dec 17, 2020
Auctions Hot Lots: These 7 Artists Emerged as Market Sensations During This Year’s Star-Making Auction Day Sales Alex Gardner, Salman Toor, Christina Quarles, and other artists drastically outperformed expectations. By Nate Freeman, Dec 14, 2020
Auctions Here Are the 10 Most Expensive Works of Art Sold at Auction in 2020—and Why They Fetched the Prices They Did Plus, who bought and sold them (when we could figure it out). By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 14, 2020
Auctions Led by Neiman Marcus’s Estimate-Smashing Calder Mobile, Sotheby’s Latest Hybrid Evening Sale Pulled in $63.4 Million Sotheby's final livestreamed auction of the year brought in a respectable total—although last-minute withdrawals offered a skewed picture. By Nate Freeman, Dec 8, 2020
Auctions Phillips’s Robust $135 Million New York Auction Sets Records for a Half-Dozen Black Artists, Rising Stars and Midcareer Figures Alike Records were shattered for Amy Sherald, Vaughn Spann, Mickalene Thomas, and others. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 7, 2020
Auctions Going Once! 11 World-Class Auctioneers Tell Us the Stories and Strange Rituals Behind Their Luckiest Gavels Auctioneers are a superstitious bunch. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 3, 2020
Auctions Phillips’s First Joint Sale With Poly Auction in Hong Kong Reaped a Solid $50 Million and Set a Flurry of Records for Up-and-Coming Artists New records were set for Lucas Arruda, Bernard Frize, Salman Toor, and Matthew Wong. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 3, 2020
Auctions Buoyed by Demand for Young Stars, Christie’s Hybrid New York and Hong Kong Auction Fetched a Healthy $119 Million New records were set for Amoako Boafo, Shara Hughes, and Dana Schutz, among others. By Eileen Kinsella, Dec 2, 2020
Auctions Bidders at the Big Three Auction Houses Are Overwhelmingly Male. Why? Women May Have a Different Sense of Art’s Value Interviews with those in the trade suggest that women collectors are more interested in creating value than buying trophies. By Julia Halperin & Tim Schneider, Dec 1, 2020
Auctions The Secret Buyer of the Royal Opera House’s £13 Million David Hockney Is Its Own Board Chair—and He’s Lending It Back David Ross purchased the artwork at Christie’s last month and will now lend it back to the British public. By Taylor Dafoe, Nov 20, 2020
