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In bidding confusion at Sotheby’s, unseen Van Gogh initially sells for €16.2m but is then resold for €13m at end of auction
Cross-category relay sale brought in $176.2m against high estimate of $120.5m and culminated with surprise Basquiat announcement
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Banksy's Game Changer sells for record £16.7m in aid of charities supporting the NHS
The work appeared suddenly last May at the University Hospital Southampton as a thank you to its staff during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
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Jean-Michel Basquiat's Warrior becomes most expensive western work of art sold in Asia at $41.7m
The 1982 work sold today at Christie's in Hong Kong to an Asian buyer
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Gaitonde breaks Indian art auction record—again—but Amrita Sher-Gil painting falls flat in uneven South Asian sales
A number of Indian artists made their auction debut this season, though several established names missed the mark
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Lockdown home decorators boost New York's Americana week auctions
Chippendale-style furniture, elephant tureens and a broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence were in demand at the sales series last week
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Record for Barkley Hendricks and $18.2m Calder at otherwise unremarkable Sotheby’s sale
Almost half of the auction's total sales value was bought by Asian buyers, but 12 lots sold below their estimates
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A tale of two cities: Christie's 20th-century relay sale sees six records set in Hong Kong before slower New York finish
In demand contemporary artists hit big in Asia but several Modern stalwarts failed to make a splash in multi-city hybrid auction
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Ed Sheeran is selling his Lego set—and his art
The singer has donated his "Jackson Pollocky" painting to a GeeWizz charity auction alongside hand-written song lyrics and other memorabilia
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The Royal Opera House's David Hockney painting sells for £12.8m at Christie's amid deaccessioning debate
The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations
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Revealed: sellers of £7.6m Banksy were London collectors who provided venue for artist's 2005 Crude Oils exhibition
As part of the deal, Roland and Jane Cowan acquired the faux Impressionist canvas from the artist—it sold last night at Sotheby's
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Christies winds up belated summer auction season with £21.2m Classic Art sale led by £4m Rubens
16th century Italian marble attributed to Antonio Lombardo steals the show, but auction house's digital face is showing its age against stiff competition
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Restituted Renaissance battle scene highlight of Sotheby’s pick-and-mix £150m evening sale
Six works were withdrawn by nervy vendors just before the start but Rembrandt to Richter sale still totalled nearly £150m, topped by a £22.3m Joan Miró
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Brave new world: Francis Bacon triptych sells for $84.5m in Sotheby's first major live-streamed evening sale
Marathon online high-tech auction was the first of its kind attempted by Sotheby's and totalled $363.2m, boosting confidence that a top-end market still exists
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And all that jazz: upbeat sale at Christie's sees Tamara De Lempicka portrait beat record set just three months ago
Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction last night made £106.8m, 35% down on last year—but with three works sold for over £10m
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Sotheby's new owner Patrick Drahi comes to auction house's first sale in post-Brexit Britain
“No fireworks” at last night's Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction that featured three restituted works
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Sale reports: Impressionist and Modern, Surrealism, and Contemporary
Peaks for best modern and contemporary artists High prices for works by Miró, Bacon, Moore and Richter are reminiscent of the boom
ArchiveArt market
Turkish artists get more international exposure following art sale at UK auction houses
A careful look at the catalogues unveils some of the peculiar dynamics of the market for Turkish contemporary art
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Chinese auction data lacks credibility
Leading British university research questions saleroom reporting
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Hesitant buyers pull through with satisfactory sales at Sotheby's Arab and Iranian contemporary art auction 2010
But Iran’s Moshiri can’t get into the Middle East top ten
ArchiveArt market
Post-war and contemporary auction report: cautious but confident
Some good prices were made, but top quality works were relatively thin on the ground
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Lukewarm reception of US's first Iranian contemporary art sale a reflection of tentative market
Experts blame poor sales on a dearth of representation in US museums
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Contemporary Art auction report: Warhol’s dollar bills attract big bucks in New York sales
The market has recalibrated, but major pieces spark highly charged bidding wars
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Paintings dumped at charity shop make six figures
The paintings were appraised after a Goodwill employee spotted the pair
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British Art Auction report: The Bacon and Freud effect
Recent record prices for the two artists boosted results for 20th-century British works, while Victorian art struggled
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Iranian artists triumph at Christie's Dubai as contemporary market hits its stride
Christie's '08 auction report sees the mediocre pushed aside to make way for big names
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Ukrainian artists lead the day at Kiev auction
Yet secrecy over values remained a priority at the Art Kapital auction
ArchiveArt market
Tax breaks fuel Korean sales
Buyers were active in recent auctions and three new art funds have been started
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Bonhams u-turns on no-sale of Sevso silver
Last month the auction house told us it would not sell the hoard, but now it says it might
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Auction sales of art shrank again in 2003
Figures show between 1.2% and 17% decline in turnover
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British auction houses develop ties with Cambodia
Sotheby's and Christie'shave been working with Cambodian authorities and organisations in the art world
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New York auction season report: Strong bidding, powerful prices
Sotheby’s cuts losses, sells London Institute
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Christie’s Picasso sale saw prices soar; but the highest-priced lots were the least desired
Most of the unsold lots were high-value items unlikely to attract new buyers
ArchiveArt market
Sales results provide reinforcing evidence that the field of photography and its market remain steadfast and financially solid
“Traditional notions of composition and beauty do very well”
ArchiveArt market
With the Paris auction market soon to be cracked wide open to outside competition, all eyes were on the first major sales to be held this year
Tip-top results for two very different sales
ArchiveArt market
An overview of Paris’s top five auction houses at the turn of the millennium
Tajan and PIASA lead the list
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Sotheby's and Christie's auction review
Strongest sales to date for both houses.
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London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
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Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction report: Record price for Modigliani
No market for the mediocre, however
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Glerum Auctioneers sale report: Growing Indonesian demand for colonial-period art
Dutch auction house holds successful sale in Singapore
ArchiveArt market
An assessment of Symbolism's market fortunes
We explore the rapid fall from favour of Symbolist art and its recovery in value after academic exposure
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Indian art generates solid sales as Persian market shows signs of life: Indian, South East Asian and Islamic sales 1995
Strong bidding from expatriate Iranians recalls pre-Revolution prices
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Contemporary sales report, London: Infectious enthusiasm pulls in bidders at Sotheby's
Bacon, Kitaj, Warhol and Richter attract keen competition
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Contemporary art sales 1994: Poor stock meets fittingly lukewarm response, exemplified by Sotheby's Warhol fiasco
Contemporary art sales '94 auction report
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Alain Delon collection auction: Delon sells a Modigliani “to buy a super Modigliani”
Japanese buyers come away with large proportion of lots