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The Modern and Contemporary sale by Sotheby’s in London proved to be a success, bringing £62.5 million ($78.6 million) in sales. The mid-season sale was held on Tuesday evening to a packed but nervous audience. After a remarkably bad…

The Post-War To Present auction at Christie’s fetched a lackluster $21.3 million, barring a work by Helen Frankenthaler. The live auction was held on February 27 in New York. A total of 224 items were planned to go on the auction block,…

A bronze sculpture by Camille Claudel, lost for over a century, was sold for €3.7 million ($3.8 million) in France. The sculpture is part of the series La Jeunesse et L’Age Mûr, or L’Age Mûr (The Age of Maturity). Camille Claudel created…

Sotheby's has revealed the lineup of works up for sale at the upcoming inaugural auction in Saudi Arabia. Titled "Origins", the two-day evening auction will open on February 8th. It will occur at the historic town of Diriyah, a UNESCO…

The year 2025 is here already, it is here with equal parts promise and caution. 2024 wasn't a great year for the art market, but everyone is now speculating whether 2025 would improve things or further go down the drain. Here are some…

The news around the art market is often filled with record-breaking and awe-inspiring sales numbers of well-known artworks. 2024 was no different; be it the $6.2 million sale of the infamous Comedian or Magritte’s L’empire des lumières sold…

The art collection of German curator Kasper König brought €6 million ($6.5 million) at an auction in Cologne. Rudolf Hans König, better known as Kasper König, was a prominent name in the German art scene. Born in 1943, König started…

An unsigned painting in the style of Rembrandt was sold for $1.5 million at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Maine. Titled ‘Portrait of a Girl’, the painting features a young woman in black attire. The details associated with the…

Bonhams and Christie’s will auction prints of Katsushika Hokusai‘s The Great Wave in September’s Asia Week New York. Katsushika Hokusai‘s Kanagawa-oki nami-ura (Under the Wave off Kanagawa), better known as “The Great Wave”, is one of…

The Modern evening sale at Sotheby's managed to end on a better note, bringing $235 million in sales. The star of the show was Meules à Giverny (1893) by Claude Monet. The painting was sold for $34.8 million, including fees. Reportedly,…