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Christie’s auction of over three dozen items belonging to gallerist Adam Lindemann was a success, fetching $31.5 million in total. Adam Lindemann, apart from being the owner of the Venus Over Manhattan gallery, is also a noted art…

Christie’s announced that it racked a total of $8.4 billion in revenues in 2022 – a record-high not just for itself, but for any auction house ever. The positive announcement was delivered with a somber note by Guillaume Cerutti, the…

The $15-20 million auction of a T-Rex skeleton in Hong Kong by Christie’s has been canceled over concerns about how many bones in it were replicas. The T-Rex, which was nicknamed “Shen”, was scheduled to go on the auction block in…

The art collection of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, brought a historic $1.5 billion in sales at Christie’s New York auction. The vast collection of Paul Allen, who died in 2018 at the age of 65, was announced for an…

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.…

Two sales, one dedicated to collector Anne Bass while another to 20th-century art, together amassed $831 million in Christie’s evening sale. The first sale of the evening featured works previously owned by socialite and collector Anne…

A drip painting by Jackson Pollock was unveiled by Christie’s and expected to fetch upwards of $45 million at the auction next month. Titled Number 31(1949), the work was made by Jackson Pollock during a crucial time in his career when…

The U.K. government has placed a temporary export ban on a masterpiece by Bernardo Bellotto, in an attempt to keep the work within the country. The work in question is View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi (1745-47) by Bellotto, which…

Christie’s has announced that it will auction 12 Impressionist and modern artworks from the collection of philanthropist Anne Bass. Anne Bass was the ex-wife of Sid Richardson Bass, a Texas business giant who made his money from oil.…

In its upcoming May sale, Christie's is bringing a painting of Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled Portrait of an Artist as a Young Derelict (1982) in the open market for the first time. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Derelict has been in the…