Auction houses
From Taiwanese white goods entrepreneurs to the Nanking shipwreck cargo: Colin Sheaf on the meteoric growth of the Asian auction world
As the Chinese art specialist steps back at Bonhams, he reflects on 50 years in the auction world as it went from provincial to global
Pensioners revolt: Patrick Drahi winds up Sotheby’s ‘defined benefit’ pension plan, and former employees are not happy
Ex-staff are now considering legal action, claiming they were not kept informed of changes to the scheme
How auction houses became the big winners of the pandemic
With the forced shift to online sales due to Covid-19 restrictions, global sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips boomed in 2021, with an increased focus on luxury goods as the rich get richer
Four years since companies in the UK began revealing salary data, the art world’s gender pay gap remains
Auction houses continue to show little sign of progress and lag behind public sector institutions
Bonhams buys Nordic auction house Bukowskis
The private-equity-owned auction house's acquisition of the Swedish firm is a first move in its bid to extend its global network
Shots fired: South Korea's galleries plan sale to 'warn' auction houses against speculation and 'extreme capitalist logic'
Seoul's biggest auction houses have allegedly violated an agreement made with Galleries Association Korea to ensure "healthy balance" within the art market
Christie’s 2021 sales total $7.1bn, with $150m from NFTs and $103.4m from the most expensive work sold this year, a Picasso
Results are the highest since 2015 and come in just behind Sotheby’s $7.3bn. Hong Kong expansion plan will continue despite Beijing crackdown, as auction house "separates what is political and what is business"
Sotheby’s sales for 2021 surpass $7.3bn, the highest total in company history
The firm’s sales were bolstered by a sharp increase in online bidders, who accounted for 92% of all bids this year
Art smuggled from junta-controlled Myanmar to be auctioned in New York this week
Proceeds from Artists Against Tyranny auction at Jane Lombard Gallery will support pro-democracy movement in junta-controlled Myanmar
Art advisors Gurr Johns buys (another) auction house, 'catering to an under-loved sector of the market for works of art under $100,000'
The firm is buying the London-based books and works on paper specialist Forum Auctions—it previously bought Dreweatts and Bloomsbury for £1.25m in 2017
Can an art market wild about young 'red-chip' artists and NFTs still value blue-chip, white male masters? Answer: Yes, for now
New York's "gigafortnight" sales of the Cox and Macklowe collections showed there is still a market for classics—even while a Beeple sells for $29m to a tweeting tech entrepreneur
Strong prices for female painters and young artists—but Francis Bacon's Pope sells to the guarantor—at Phillips's $137.9m auction in New York
The 20th century and contemporary art evening sale saw stiff competition for works by Shara Hughes, Joan Mitchell, Amy Sherald and Cecily Brown
New app artpass ID promises art market due diligence in one click—but does it really work?
Artpass ID has been created by Dutch tech entrepreneurs David Dehaeck and Nathalie Haveman, and has Rakhi Talwar, former global compliance head at Christie’s, on the team
Crypto wallets at the ready: Sotheby's to accept live bidding in ethereum on two Banksy works
The auction house made Banksy's world record for the pre-shredded work Love is in the Bin
Former Bonhams owner Robert Brooks dies
The ambitious auctioneer started out in car racing before going into art and antiques, eventually retiring to his farm near Exmoor to rear a herd of beef cattle
Need a 100-year-old Inuit parka made from seal guts? Dealer Peter Petrou to sell collection at Sotheby's
The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities
Connoisseurship: is it time for a comeback?
When prices and cultural value are so easily confused, there is a case for the return of critical evaluation—in updated form
Follow the money: Christie's bets on Hong Kong with vast new headquarters as clients in Asia spend over $1bn so far this year
Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions
Can auctions save the earth? Christie's to fundraise for environmental charity by selling works by Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson
The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m-$10m for ClientEarth
Christie’s results for first half of 2021 show marked shift towards Asia, online and private sales—and female auctioneers
Auction sales, according to the analysts ArtTactic, are up 230% to a total of $5.9bn so far this year at the three major auction houses, Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips
Legal battle over €15m Leonardo discovery: owner, Tajan auction house and French government fight it out
An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned
Sotheby's doubles down on private sales with Monte-Carlo gallery
Seasonal two-storey space is newest addition to Monaco's growing commercial art scene
'Jobs for the boys… why I'm starting to feel old amid the new art world order'
The thrusting land of NFTs and tech nomads favours the young—and has yet to shake off the old ties of nepotism
Access denied: British auction house executives refused US visas to travel for marquee New York sales week
But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple
Christie's to offer paid internships to students with disabilities
Auction house has partnered with disability charity Leonard Cheshire's Change 100 programme to give work placements in-house and fund others at Tate and National Galleries of Scotland
Christie’s supports charity delivering art history lessons for students at UK state schools
Art History Link-Up chief says subject is a rare offer at state schools because of cuts and teacher shortages
Phillips names Stephen Brooks, a former Christie's financial officer, as new chief executive
The current chief, Edward Dolman, will shift in September to a new role as executive chairman of Phillips’ holding company
Sotheby’s launches first auction dedicated to women artists—but why do we still need a segregated sale in 2021?
Online sale will span the 17th to the 21st centuries featuring artists including Dorothea Tanning, Hannah Höch and Barbara Hepworth
Sotheby's to sell Robert Colescott's take on George Washington crossing the Delaware River
The painting's low estimate of $9m is ten times the artist's record at auction
Sotheby’s gets in on NFT fever with a collaboration with digital artist Pak
Auction house's head of sale Max Moore has already personally bought a work by the artist