Artnet News Pro By the Numbers: Sotheby’s Mo Ostin and Modern Auctions, May 2023 Get the stats behind the spin. By Katya Kazakina, May 17, 2023
Art & Exhibitions Why Did Cypresses Transfix Van Gogh? A Show at the Met Museum Explores the Artist’s Many Depictions of the Symbolic Trees It's the first show to focus on Van Gogh's fixation with the striking trees. By Sarah Cascone, May 17, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Faces a ‘More Sober’ Market With a Modern Art Marathon—and Comes Away With $427 Million The evening began with the cream of the Mo Ostin collection before moving to (mostly) modern works. By Katya Kazakina, May 16, 2023
Crime A Portuguese Ex-Banker Convicted of Fraud in a $20 Million Art Deal Has Evaded Jail Time After a Criminal Statute Expired José Viamonte de Sousa skimmed millions off a sale of 41 Joan Miró paintings. By Eileen Kinsella, May 16, 2023
Artnet News Pro From a Rare Klimt Still Life to a Paradoxical Magritte, Here’s Our Insider’s Guide to the Key Lots of New York’s $1.3 Billion Spring Auctions The market may be off its peak but liquidating single-owner collections mean there's no shortage of trophy lots and rare gems this season. By Eileen Kinsella, May 11, 2023
Auctions A British Couple Bought Two Vases for $10 at a Thrift Sale. They Turned Out to Be Art Nouveau Collectibles Worth 150 Times That The car boot sale finds turned out to be Art Nouveau treasures. By Sarah Cascone, May 3, 2023
Auctions Want to Own a Piece of Rock Royalty? Freddie Mercury’s Private Collection of Guitars and Artworks Heads to Sotheby’s This Fall Buyers will get to scoop up Mercury's iconic crown and cloak, and works by Picasso and Matisse. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 25, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Will Offer Four Newly Restituted Impressionist Works by Renoir, Gauguin, and Cézanne in Its Marquee May Auctions The works, which were returned to the heirs of legendary dealer Ambroise Vollard, could fetch more than $17 million. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 21, 2023
On View LGDR Inaugurates Its Stunning New Headquarters With ‘Rear View,’ a Cheeky Show Featuring—You Guessed It—Lots of Derrières The four power dealers have unveiled a single flagship home in an Upper East Side Beaux Arts-style townhouse. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 19, 2023
Auctions Sotheby’s Hong Kong Evening Sale Brings In a Respectable $85.5 Million, Fueled by a Strong Demand for Ultra-Contemporary Art Artist records were set for Matthew Wong, Pang Jiun, Loie Hollowell, among others. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2023
Market Want to Dip a Toe Into the Blazing Market for Picasso? We Polled the Experts About Where the Smart Buys Are Demand has seldom been higher, but there are plenty of hidden gems to be scooped up at lower price points. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 5, 2023
Analysis The Latest UBS Art Basel Report Puts the Global Art Market at $67.8 Billion, Indicating Modest Growth Amid Economic Uncertainty The art market, while still top-heavy, defied much of the ongoing global and economic volatility in 2022. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 3, 2023
Artnet News Pro Peter Doig’s Latest Work Is ‘the Most Talked About Show in London.’ But What’s Really Going on Behind the Scenes of His Art Market? From a notorious speculator to the possible involvement of a Russian consortium, the artist's market history is full of twists and turns. By Eileen Kinsella, Apr 2, 2023
Law & Politics Germany’s Culture Minister Is Calling on a Munich Museum to Resolve a Years-Long Restitution Dispute Over a Prized Picasso Painting The Bavarian State Painting Collections has declined to allow German's lost art commission hear the case. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 31, 2023
Museums & Institutions Workers at the Hispanic Society Museum Have Voted to Strike Following Stalled Negotiations for a Union Contract The museum's staff first filed their intention to unionize in May 2021. By Sarah Cascone, Mar 23, 2023
