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This week’s Old Masters sales offer the potential to set a number of new records for old names. The auctions begin on Tuesday, July 5th at 7 am EDT. Christie’s Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900 will take place live in London.

Multiple trending artists see up to 8 lots hit the block across this week’s Paris and London sales. Caroline Walker, Stanley Whitney, Simone Leigh, and more rise to the top

This week there are two sales at Phillips in Hong Kong. Like any respectable sale in 2022, the opening lot is by Anna Weyant, and there is plenty of Kerwick and Nava to go around.

Art Basel is the sanctum sanctorum of art fairs, the inner circle’s inner circle, the fair that world’s best dealers save their very best works for. But it’s also, in this season of passion for new names with fresh ideas, a place to discover great talent.

A little something for everyone this week with a themed sale, some ceramics, and a whole lot of Old Masters

The auction cycle takes a WFH week with a series of online sales

Lucy Bull's attention-getting LA gallery shows and art fair appearances result in strong sales on the private market and, now, a big auction debut

The major New York sales may be behind us, but their momentum continues into a number of London, Paris, and Hong Kong sales

With an auction circuit hungry for both new names and figurative works, Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz’s stardom is no surprise. This week at Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale, her 2019 painting Portrait of a Lady (After Louis Leopold Boilly) sold for $1,560,000.

Sotheby’s and Christie’s dueling target paintings might cause a market overhaul for the Color Field painter. Though his paintings sit on the same textbook pages as Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland’s prices on the secondary market lag behind his peers.

Ayako Rokkaku is a self-taught Japanese artist whose market continues to trend upward heading into the 2022 spring auction season. Rokkaku’s colorful paintings, often created with her bare hands in lieu of a brush, have been gaining momentum in Asia since her auction debut in late 2008.

Christie’s Thomas and Doris Ammann Sale, Monday, May 9th, 7 pm EDTA curated selection of 36 works including Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn. With a $200m estimate, the work could very likely surpass both the public sale record for a Warhol