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Philadelphia put on the better version of the artist’s retrospective, but New York got to keep some of the most famous works. As the pioneering Jasper Johns retrospective comes to the end of its historic run, a controversy that marked the beginning of the show might now be easier to understand.

After a 45% rise in prints and editions sale volume, Phillips goes from 4 live sales to 7 in 2022. All three major auction houses have a long-standing interest in the category but Phillips announced today that it will expand the number of its editions live auctions this year.

Sotheby’s has unveiled another Claude Monet work for the March 2nd sale in London. The late waterlilies work from 1914-1917 was purchased by Sotheby’s former owner Alfred Taubman in 1978 before he owned the auction house.

Aboudia, the artist from the Cote d’Ivoire who first came to prominence after the 2010 civil war in that country, had a spectacular year on the art market in 2021. His public sales totaled more than $7.45 million over 81 works that made an average price of $92,000.

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Painting sold to fund collector’s emigration to New York is offered with £35m estimate in March and hopes for much more. The market for works of German Expressionism is hampered by the limited supply of works in private hands and the relative paucity of trades that might excite both buyers and sellers.

Lucien Freud’s Girl with Closed Eyes, a portrait of Janey Longman painted by Freud in his sixties, will be offered during Christie’s March 1st relay sale connecting sale rooms in Shanghai and London. The work is being offered with its estimate upon request, a strategy that allows the house to gauge demand for the work in real time, but the whisper number places expectations above £10 million for the small canvas.

Art Basel dropped a bomb this morning when the Grand Palais in Paris—which will be under renovation for the next two years—announced the Swiss fair had out-bid FIAC for the French fair’s traditional week in October.

Esther Kim Varet founded her gallery Various Small Fires as project space in her Los Angeles home. It has since grown to have a location in Seoul, Korea with plans for another—as she announces in this podcast—to open soon in Dallas, Texas.

The exhibition will bring together more than 20 artists – both emerging and established – who are united by their use of digital media to explore visions of alternative realities in the metaverse.

With a gallery show opening in Hong Kong, the Australian’s Instagram-fueled market is taking off.

In their 2021 end of year reporting, Phillips auction house revealed that their sales of prints and multiples had risen by 46% from 2020 to 2021.