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Christie’s evening sales total $831.3m, with Texan poker player’s surprise bidding spree upstaging blue-chip successes
On a night when many works outpaced expectations in Christie's New York saleroom, Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack” sold for more than 76 times its high estimate
Warhol's Blue Marilyn sells for record-smashing $195m at Christie's auction of Swiss dealers' collection
The collection of Thomas and Doris Ammann brought in $317.8m with fees, making it one of Christie's biggest single-owner sales ever
Christie's aims to raise $1m for Ukraine in string of benefit sales
In April and May, the auction house will sell works to support the World Monuments Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières and CORE, the relief organisation founded by Sean Penn
Christie’s uses hologram technology to take a $20m Degas sculpture on tour
The hologram, produced by the Los Angeles-based company Proto, is currently on view at Christie’s San Francisco and will next be transported via the cloud to Hong Kong
New art sea shipping service promises 80% emissions reduction compared with air freight
Collaboration between art logistics company Crozier and Christie's will send shipping containers between London, New York and Hong Kong
Rodin's The Thinker to sell for up to €14m
Christie's Paris will offer the posthumous cast of the famous bronze at auction in June
Newly attributed Michelangelo drawing expected to make €30m at Christie’s Paris next month
Formerly attributed to “the school of Michelangelo”, experts now say the nude sketch is by the master's own hand
Degas, Monet and Rothko among Texan philanthropist Anne Bass’s trove, expected to sell at Christie’s for $250m
Only two of the 12 works have been guaranteed, an oddity in the recent string of high-profile single-owner sales
'I’ve done my duty on spreadsheets': senior staff reshuffles at Christie's and Sotheby's
A number of new appointments are announced today at the auction houses, with a different EMEA president for Christie's and new managing director in the Middle East at Sotheby's
Two lots withdrawn from Christie’s antiquities sale after possible ties emerge to dealers known to traffic in illicit artefacts
The artefacts were flagged by Christos Tsiogiannis, who has, since 2006, been identifying looted antiquities through photographic archives of suspected and convicted dealers in plunder
Shotgun the Warhol: Christie's to sell Shot Sage Blue Marilyn for $200m
The painting, being sold by the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation, could become the most expensive 20th century work of art ever sold at auction when it is offered in New York in May
A Canova statue—lost in an English garden for decades and bought for £5,200—will be sold at Christie's London for £8m
The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years
Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams call off Russian art auctions in response to war in Ukraine
The sales, popular with London-based Russians and regional collectors in Russia alike, had been scheduled for June
Picasso bronze deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum could bring $30m at Christie’s
The sale of the canonical early Cubist sculpture will bolster the museum’s acquisitions fund and at no great cost to its collection, which includes another edition of the work
Christie’s Middle East chairman Michael Jeha is stepping down after 23 years at the end of this month
Jeha began his career at the auction house as an intern in the Impressionism department
Franz Marc's £42.6m Foxes leads Christie's marathon Shanghai-London auction of Modern and contemporary art
The sprawling 20th and 21st century sale took over five hours and spanned Boudin to Banksy
Object lessons: from a Francis Bacon triptych to India's most expensive woman artist at auction
Our pick of highlights from forthcoming auctions and fairs
Revealed: Van Gogh landscape once owned by Yves Saint Laurent coming up for sale, valued at $45m
Christie’s is to offer the never-exhibited painting in a New York auction in May
Object lessons: from a Renaissance drawing unseen for a century to a work by Mali’s pre-eminent photographer
Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions
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"
‘We had to give it our best shot’: inside the Getty’s record-setting Caillebotte acquisition
The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism
Four Van Goghs go for $161m in one evening in New York—double their Christie’s estimates
For the artist who failed to sell during his lifetime, there is now a surge in the market for Vincent’s late paintings
Caillebotte masterpiece goes to Getty and four auction records smashed at Christie’s New York sale of Edwin Cox’s Impressionist trove
Last night's single-owner sale of the late Texan oilman's vaunted collection brought in a massive $332m
Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali and other heavyweights help Christie’s make $420m in 20th-century sale in New York
Only five of the 59 lots went unsold in the auction last night
Basquiat remains 'king of capital gains' as rare work fetches $40m at Christie's white-glove sale in New York
All lots sold and records were set for ten artists, including Peter Doig, Stanley Whitney, Xinyi Cheng and Nicolas Party at last night's confidence-boosting 21st-century evening auction
Petition calls on Christie’s to return sacred Taino artefacts to Indigenous lands
Some artefacts in Christie’s Pre-Columbian Art & Taino Masterworks sale on 10 November in Paris are estimated to sell for up to £250,000
Christie's to sell 'The Vision', the last of Constable's famous view of Salisbury Cathedral left in private hands
The oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, has never appeared at auction before and is expected for sell for between £2m to £3m this December in London
Has Impressionism still got it? This months auctions should tell us
Will the wave of young Asians buying hot young artists also wash into the higher-priced, blue-chip artists on offer in New York, or has older art lost its charm?
Young female painters and bored apes turn heads at Christie's £64.6m auction
The first NFT to be sold at auction in Europe sells for £800,000, while collectors compete for emerging women artists, leaving more established names on the shelf
Stunning $30m Van Gogh watercolour resurfaces at Christie’s New York following complex behind-the-scenes deal
The auction house—which estimates the painting at $30m—helped broker a deal between the seller and the descendants of two Jewish families who had it in the Nazi era