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Amid a 1977 de Kooning boomlet, the auction house offers a sought-after work with a $20m whisper number

Works from Philip Guston’s late period have been making rapid progress on the masterpiece market for several years now. Six of the artist’s top ten prices come from works made after he abandoned Abstract Expressionism in favor of the controversial—and highly personal—figurative vocabulary of his works from the 1970s.

Swann Auction Galleries semi-annual sale of African American art, an auction category pioneered by the house, totaled $3.6 million with 214 lots sold of the 241 lots offered. That total is a strong hammer ratio of 1.52—indicating strong interest from bidders—and a sell-through rate of 89%.

This morning Christie’s announced that it will be holding a single-owner sale of 12 works from the estate of Anne H. Bass. The works were featured in her Manhattan apartment, including a pair of Mark Rothko paintings that were displayed as “sentinels” in her living room.

Clare McAndrew's annual report for UBS & Art Basel sees strong performance for auction houses and US market

Anthea Peers moves from private sales to Head of EMEA at Christie’s; Dirk Boll takes strategic role.

Biennial appearances don’t make artists’ markets, but they do grow them. We looked at the data to see how Shara Hughes, Dana Schutz, Nicole Eisenman, and Jordan Wolfson saw their markets crack open after Whitney Biennial appearances.

Claude Monet made one trip to Venice in 1908 rather late in his life. He was 68 when he arrived. While he was there he started 37 pictures which he would take several years to eventually finish, exhibit and sell. Sotheby’s is mimicking Monet’s desultory route to market for his Venetian views with today’s announcement.

Barely two years out of the Royal Academy schools and after a show at Thaddaeus Ropac in London that closed in February, Rachel Jones has had two major sales bookending March. At the beginning of the month, her work opened Sotheby’s London The Now sale on March 2nd soaring to $840,000. At the end of the month, a 2019 p

Eric Turquin, who sells Old Master paintings at Artcurial, called the Jean-Simeon Chardin still life of strawberries a trophy picture. Today the work received a trophy price when a dealer paid a €20.5 million hammer price. The painting had been held in the same family for generations. The descendants ofm19th-century co

Emerging artists continue to be the stars of the market The New York mid-season auctions totaled $72,550,634 with 550 lots offered and 467 sold.

Thomas and Doris Amman's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn offered to fund foundation. The Warhol market has been quiet at the very top for several years with the most significant works selling privately but few high-value Warhol paintings coming to auction.