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This week the block will see hundreds of lots courtesy of three prints and multiples sales. The highest value lots in these sales are largely portfolios of prints by the usual suspects, Andy Warhol and Keith Haring. 

A cityscape by Wayne Thiebaud that was commissioned for the bio-medical research organization the Gladstone Institute’s building in San Francisco will be sold at Christie’s on May 12th to fund dedicated programs in scientific training and mentoring. The triptych, City Views is estimated at $10 million, is one of the la

Sotheby’s Hong Kong is eager to capitalize on demand for Picasso in Asia. “Interest in Picasso has been surging among Asian collectors,” says Felix Kwok, Head of Modern Art for Sotheby’s in Asia.

Claude Monet’s most prized works in the market these days are the ones that come from a series that depicts a landmark or view with different effects from the changing light and weather. Grainstacks, Venetian views, Britain’s House of Parliament, or poplar trees lining a road.

Sotheby’s is launching the viewing of its just-announced Kerry James Marshall painting that will be featured in the May 17th The Now sale in Los Angeles because the painting comes from Loma Lina University’s Institute for Genetics and Translational Genomics.

Indiana-born, Brooklyn-based artist Robert Nava has seen steady momentum on the secondary market since his mid-pandemic auction debut in July of 2020. Collectors love his imaginative mixed-media creatures. The fantasy animals first showed up at NADA Miami and at the Dallas Art Fair displayed at Los Angeles’s Night Gallery.

As the spring season approaches, regionally specific Modern and Contemporary sales warm up the block.

Christie's has announced the sale of a 1928 cast of Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” which is the centerpiece of a sale of works from a Parisian apartment designed by Alberto Pinto.

In recent years, value in the Picasso market has migrated toward a distinct period in the master’s production surrounding his affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, the young woman who became his obsession for the better part of a decade.

The first quarter of the art market calendar lacks major sales but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of action. Here are 17 artists to watch from Q1 sales performance.

On May 9th, 36 works will be sold including Warhol's $200 million Marilyn, a $15 Flowers painting, a $15m Ryman and a rare auction appearance by a Francesco Clemente work

You don’t get a “new” Michelangelo every day in the art market. So it is astonishing news to hear Christie’s announce the sale of a previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo, A nude young man (after Masaccio) surrounded by two figures, executed early in his career.