Art collection

Sotheby's is set to auction the art collection of TV giant Ted Baum and his wife Ruth, worth over $100 million, next month. While the huge collection of more than 130 works is estimated to be worth over $100 million, not all the works in…

Billionaire art collector Kenneth Griffin is revealed as the buyer of the handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment by Abraham Lincoln. The document, one of the only four handwritten copies made by US President Abraham Lincoln, went on the…

The collection of British socialite Pauline Karpidas will hit Sotheby’s London and is expected to shatter records. Considered the greatest collection of surrealist art in modern times, the Pauline Karpidas collection boasts names like…

The famed collection of the founder of the Museu de Arte Modern in Brazil will be auctioned at Sotheby’s Paris sale. In an evening thriving with Brazilian Modernism, Sotheby’s Paris has organized an auction on April 10. The sale would be…

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…

The Bourse - historic stock exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark home to numerous artworks - caught fire early on Tuesday. The fire was first reported at 7.30 am local time on Tuesday. Soon, firefighters were swarming The Bourse, as the…

Art collector and investor Leon Black has agreed to pay $62.5 million to the US Virgin Islands, to settle all claims related to his involvement with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein, a prominent financier at the time, was…

Update: A previous version of this article mistakenly attributed the cause of death as 'natural'. We apologize for this grievous error. Thomas H Lee, businessman and art collector, died due to suicide at the age of 78 on Thursday. His…

The art collection of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, will be sold at a mega auction at Christie’s. Once the auction gets finalized, it will be the most expensive single-owner art collection ever to be sold in an auction.…

The Spanish Ministry of Culture has confirmed that it will be buying the 120,000 objects in the collection of Spanish businessman José María Lafuente. The massive collection of Lafuente Archive boasts 120,000 avant-garde artworks. 19,000…