Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN This article was updated with final prices and other details following the second auction. More than three years after the high-profile divorce proceedings of New York real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his wife, Linda, their art collection has become the most expensive to ever […]
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New York scraps auction regulations
This month, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are selling artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries to create what they will hope will be record-breaking auctions – Andy Warhol’s 1964 silk-screen portrait of Marilyn Monroe has already broken one record by fetching the cool sum of $195 million, the highest price ever paid […]
Louise Blouin’s Southampton Compound Heads to Auction After Failing to Sell for $140 Million + Other Stories
Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, April 22. NEED TO READ Russian Artist Protests Outside Empty Venice Pavilion – Vadim Zakharov, a Russian artist who represented his […]
Philip Guston painting could make $30m, potentially breaking the artist’s auction record
A 1950s Abstract Expressionist painting by Philip Guston, Nile (1958), will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York next month with an estimate of between $20m and $30m, the highest ever for a work by the artist at auction. The work, consigned to the auction house’s Modern evening auction […]
Top auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London
Written by ReutersLondon, UK Auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams have canceled sales of Russian art in London in June, part of the art market’s response to Western sanctions on Russia as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. The auction houses hold sales of Russian art in June and November […]
Auction houses stop Russian art sales as Russia-Ukraine war drags on: ‘Strict compliance’
Retired U.S. Navy Seal Rob O’Neill weighs in on how the United States responds to Putin’s nuclear threats on ‘Fox Business Tonight.’ In light of the Russia-Ukraine war, leading auction houses are pausing their Russian art sales and don’t have plans to participate in Russian Art Week this summer. The […]
Entertainment News Roundup: Top auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London; Jussie Smollett to be released from jail while appealing conviction and more
Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. Top auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London Auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Bonhams have canceled sales of Russian art in London in June, part of the art market’s response to Western sanctions on Russia as punishment for […]