As November auctions kick off in New York with Sotheby's Modern Art Evening— led by one of Monet’s Nymphéas (circa 1914–17) and Picasso’s La Statuaire (1925)— Sotheby's Geneva had a special lot last week that surprised bidders and spectators.
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Christie's announced late last week that they would be acquiring the classic automobile auction house, Gooding & Company, after 17 years of not specializing in the sale of luxury vehicles. Perhaps it felt like the right time to reestablish themselves after the somewhat brief hiatus, marking one of Christie’s biggest deals of the last two decades.
Precursor of modernism and founder of the impressionist school, Claude Monet rendered approximately 250 oil paintings of his water lilies from 1896 to 1920.
Westwood World: The Personal Collection kicked off at Christie’s London yesterday evening and brought in roughly half a million pounds during the auction’s opening segment.
Tiziano Vecello, otherwise known as Titian, is estimated to set a new record for his twice-stolen painting at Christie’s Old Masters sale held in London on July 2nd.
Despite the market’s slight lull in comparison to the last few years, Christie’s, Sotheby's, and Phillips had their annual May marquee sales and ended up, for the most part, within their estimated
There typically would be great anticipation leading up to Christie’s 20th and 21st Century Evening Sales, as works by Basquiat, Keith Haring, Monet, Ed Rusche, Van Gogh,
A portrait, originally thought to be lost, painted by Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt has just sold at Im Kinsky, a Vienna auction house.
A painting created by The Beatles in 1966, the only known artwork made by all four of The Beatles, sold at Christie's for $1.7 million.
Christie’s will auction an extensive collection of art, furniture, and collector’s items from Sir Elton John’s former home in Atlanta, Georgia in a an eight-auction sale titled "The Collection of Elton John: Goodbye Peachtree Road."
