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A sketch of a foot, recently found to be an authentic work by Michelangelo, has set a new record for the master by fetching $27.2 million at Christie's. Last March, an anonymous buyer contacted Christie's website regarding the valuation…

A Fabergé egg, a symbol of the Russian empire, was sold for a record-breaking price at Christie's London. On Tuesday, the egg came up on the auction block with 48 other lots from Fabergé. It ended up being sold for £22.9 million (around…

Christie's kicked off the marquee auction week with a double-header, which brought in a total of $690 million, including fees. The first event of Monday night was the Robert and Patricia Ross Weis Sale, featuring a collection from the…

A rare work by Dutch Golden Age artist Gerrit Dou will be auctioned at Christie's on December 2. The Flute Player (ca. 1636) is one of the few known paintings by the Dutch master Gerrit Dou. While a master in his own right, Dou is…

Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips saw a cautious Hong Kong market where their combined sales brought in $136.3 million. Over the weekend, the big three auction houses held their own sales in Hong Kong, considered the hottest art hub of…

Christie’s secured 20 works from late Elaine Wynn’s collection, while LACMA got the $142 million Francis Bacon work. Elain Wynn was a business magnate and a top art collector (alongside her former husband Steve Wynn). Following her…

Reports suggest that just a few years after the NFT boom, Christie’s plans to close its digital art department. The news was first reported by Now Media on Monday, suggesting that the digital art department at the auction house is…

Thanks to a Tiffany Studios work, the design sale at Christie’s brought in a combined total of $23.6 million even in a slow market. On Thursday, Christie’s organized two auctions related to design works. The first was the “American…

Christie’s 21st-century evening sale fetched a rather decent $96.4 million and an auction record for a living female artist. The highlight of the evening was Miss January (1997) by Marlene Dumas. The portrait features a nude, blonde…

Andy Warhol’s Big Electric Chair will be getting auctioned at Christie’s in May, expecting to fetch $30 million. Created in 1967-68, the artwork stands at six feet in height. It features an electric chair as its subject – the kind that…