Tag: Auctions

In its annual assessment of France’s auction market, the auction house Council reported a record-breaking €4.6bn in overall auction sales, marking more than 7% growth for the second consecutive year.

When a valuable artwork is sold for far less than its true value, the original owner should be compensated in future sales. The art market thrives on the discovery of

Francis Bacon’s iconic portrait of his lover George Dyer is set to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York, with an estimated value of $50m. The painting, titled “Portrait of

Bahman Mohasses, Untitled (Fifi) (1964) Bahman Mohasses, known as the “Persian Picasso”, created this masterpiece during a prolific phase of his artistic career. The painting features a faceless female character

An upcoming highlight of the spring auction season at Sotheby’s in New York is a large canvas created as part of the high-profile collaboration between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Dallas collectors Howard and Cindy Rachofsky are selling a cadmium yellow work by Lucio Fontana at Sotheby’s New York next month, which could set a new auction record for the

Christie’s recently withdrew four Greek vases from an auction in New York following allegations that they had connections to Gianfranco Becchina, an Italian dealer convicted of art trafficking in 2011.

Sotheby’s is set to break Leonora Carrington’s auction record with the offering of her masterpiece painting, “Les Distractions de Dagobert”. The painting is expected to fetch between $12m to $18m

Four paintings by the pioneering Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell (1925-92) are set to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in New York next month, with an estimated collective value between $36m and

The recent sale of Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” at Im Kinsky in Vienna for €30m has set a new auction record for Austria. The painting, previously believed lost,