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Phillips posted another strong sale of editioned works in London this week with 349 lots offered in day and evening sales for a total of £5,047,560. The $6.8 million total exceeds the pre-sale low estimate by 75%. That represents a dynamic score (or hammer ratio) of 1.87, a red-hot indicator.

On March 1st, Christie’s will resume its relay sales with an event linking the firm’s Shanghai headquarters with London selling works in the 20/21 format with the addition of a traditional London sale focused around the Art of Surrealism.

A partner at Mnuchin Gallery since 2013, Sukanya Rajaratnam has played an important role in connecting some of the world’s most respected collectors with artists whose work has been previously overlooked or undervalued.

Five works by Claude Monet are coming to Sotheby’s for their Modern and Contemporary Evening auction in London March 2nd. With the dad-joke title of Monet x Monet | A Distinguished American Collection, the works have a combined estimate around $40 million (£30m).

Jiménez, who is Sotheby's Chairman, Managing Director & Worldwide Head Business Development Global Fine Arts, connects the challenges of 2020 to the incredible art market successes of 2021.

Among René Magritte’s many famous images expressing the uncanniness of modern life, none is as recognizable as his composition titled L’empire des lumières, of which he made 17 different versions beginning in 1948.

Few artists have as dramatic and visible public debuts as Jammie Holmes did on May 30th, 2020 when he paid for five planes in five separate cities—Detroit, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York—to fly banners of text, each one displaying one of the last five sentences George Floyd uttered when he was murdered five da

Has the image of Banksy’s Kate Moss surpassed Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe in market value? Banksy’s riff on one of Andy Warhol’s most famous images has become such a sought-after print that Phillips has an example on offer in its Editions sale in London.

We sifted through our database of auction sales for all of the works made since 2000 that were sold in 2021. That gave us a total market value of $1.76 billion for 21st century art sold at public auction at the major auction houses last year. 

The art advisor daughter of famed critic Clement Greenberg answers our questions about starting a collection. Sarah Greenberg Morse Art + Estate Advisory works with collectors, estate executors, and lawyers

Nothing captured the fascinating mix of celebrity and the underground world of sex and drugs surrounding Andy Warhol than New Year’s Eve at Studio 54.

Phillips posted $1.2 billion in sales in 2021. That’s 32% more than they sold in 2019. So the company continues to make progress as it installs a new CEO in Stephen Brooks. Auction sales came tantalizingly close to the symbolic milestone of $1 billion. The exact total was $993.3 million. Private sales contributed anoth