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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,…

A gold watch belonging to the richest passenger on the Titanic was sold for more than $1.47 million last week. The watch belonged to John Jacob Aster, widely believed to be the richest passenger aboard the doomed ship. Aster, who made…

Girl With Balloon, the Banksy work that made headlines after it was shredded, is back after getting renamed a second time. Girl With Balloon was a 2006 work by the mysterious street artist Banksy. In 2018, it went on sale at Sotheby’s…

Portrait of Spanish Queen Isabel by Diego Velázquez, expected to fetch above $35 million, was pulled from auction by Sotheby’s. The portrait of Queen Isabel de Borbon was part of the series Diego Velázquez created for the Spanish…

The year 2023 finally saw a downturn in the rising trend that began in 2021. The pandemic era saw even more interest in blue-chip art, with all of the top ten artworks of 2021 selling for more than $50 million. Just a year prior in 2020,…

A pair of shoes in a Portland donation box was discovered to be a rare Nike Air Jordan made for filmmaker Spike Lee. The incident occurred in April at the Burnside Shelter of the Portland Rescue Mission in Portland, Oregon. According to…