Auctions

NY Times - The Banksy painting that sensationally self-destructed three years ago after selling for $1.4 million at auction was resold by Sotheby’s Thursday for 18.6 million pounds, or $25.4 million, a record f...

domus - Philanthropist Michelle Smith design collection totaled an outstanding $45 million at a Sotheby’s auction, well above its highest estimate of $16 million. - read more...

NY Times -  “Warrior,” a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat that was said to symbolize the struggles of Black men in a white-dominated world, sold for $41.9 million, with fees, at Christie’s auction house in...

The Art Newspaper - Auction house has closed New York saleroom along with other offices—Sotheby's has not as yet announced any closures while Phillips has postponed all events and sales until mid-May - read mor...

New York Times -  Everybody’s talking about it. How did the world’s most famous street artist manage to shred — or rather half shred — one of his iconic “Girl With Balloon” paintings moments after it had sold f...

Artnet News - This power year in the art world peaked with Christie’s historic showstopper auction, as Leonardo da Vinci‘s Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million to a mysterious buyer, who has since turned out (a...

The Art Newspaper  - After suffering from a dearth of top works in the preceding two years, owing to economic jitters sparked by geopolitical uncertainty, the Impressionist and Modern market saw a comeback in c...