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The Bullet: The Now: $72,930,850 with 100% sold (23/23 + one lot withdrawn); Contemporary Evening sale: $210,502,700 with 93% sold (26/27 + one lot withdrawn) Composition of Results: The Now: 65% above/ 26% within/ 7% below estimates  Contemporary Evening sale: 33% above/ 41% within/ 26% below estimates 

Detailed results from tonight's evening sale at Phillips including the monumental sale of Basquiat's Untitled from 1982, plus ultra contemporary stars Lauren Quin, Anna Weyant, and Shara Hughes.

Results from the Modern Evening Sale at Sotheby's New York, in which half of the sale’s lots were covered by IBs

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.

A breakdown of the second half of the Macklowe Collection at Sotheby's plus need-to-know lots from Rothko to Koons and the state of global bidding

The Ernie Barnes bidding war and the final victory of Anne Bass

The mystery about C.J. Hendry’s new art installation as pop-up gallery at an abandoned church in East London that opens today isn’t why she renovated the local church exclusively for one event.

Detailed and illustrated results from tonight's 21st Century Evening Sale at Christie's including need-to-know lots by Anna Weyant, Salman Toor, Tom Sachs, and more

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.

The market for Wayne Thiebaud’s work has been on the move these last few years and the strong prices are coming from unexpected works. To most, Thiebaud is prized for his candies and pastries from the 1960s. Traditionally, these are the works that have had the best shot at attracting bidders and driving up new prices. 

How we should think about the Warhol sale plus impressive prices for Cy Twombly, Ann Craven, and Mary Heilmann

As more works from Katz's prime period in the 1970s come to auction, could his market finally get momentum? It’s a big auction season for the most famous names and for emerging talent. But there’s also a few familiar artists whose work seems poised to try to break out of past sales patterns.