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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.

It's fun to guess who might spend $200 million—or much more—on Marilyn. But what impact will a new Warhol record have on the art market? LiveArt Market Monitor tries to answer the question.

LiveArt Market Monitor's report Warhol's Marilyn and the Art Market is available as a pdf with additional charts and content. You may download and share it from here. When Christie’s announced that it would be selling Doris Ammann’s 40-inch square Warhol image of Marilyn Monroe this May, the news was stunning but the r

Sotheby’s Hong Kong sale cycle was overshadowed by China’s zero Covid policy, but that didn’t seem to dampen demand. Over four sales, nearly $200 million in art was sold and sell-through rates were in the ninetieth percentiles for the Evening sales and eightieth percentiles for the Day sales. 

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

Christie’s bringing back to the market an important large Gerhard Richter abstract painting that once set a record price for these works at $34 million. The painting doesn’t have a published estimate but the whisper number isn’t really more than the previous sale. Christie’s will only say they expect the work to sell f

Sotheby’s major Hong Kong sales will also take place on Wednesday the 27th. The Modern Evening Auction, beginning at 6 am EDT, has already drawn press attention with all eyes on Picasso’s red portrait of Dora Maar.

This week the sales season ramps up with major auctions in Hong Kong as well as New York and some online sales. There is a particular emphasis on emerging talent.

One of the most recognizable, reproduced, and parodied images of American history comes to the block at Christie’s this spring. The auction house announced today that Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware will be featured in the 20th Century Evening Sale.

The market for works by Claude Monet entered a dramatic new phase during the pandemic. Works that had been priced at auction between $27 and $36.5 million before the pandemic began seem to be trading at prices from $48 million to $70 million.

Sotheby’s has been sending art advisors around the world an image of Francis Bacon’s Study for Red Pope, 1962, second version 1971 with an estimate around $40 million.

It’s a small painting on masonite board fewer than three feet by two feet but a Jackson Pollock from 1949 packs a market wallop. Christie’s announced Number 31 will be sold in May with a whisper number of $45 million. The work has been included in several prominent Pollock shows, most notably the retrospectives held at