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Just before her death last year at 96, her work reached a new high of $494,010. Two sales this week will tell the market more.

Estimated at $70 million, the key work has the potential to re-set the market. In a little more than a month, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s family is going to open an exhibition of his work and the family’s holdings in lower Manhattan.

This week in London nearly $70 million of Claude Monet’s art will be offered at Sotheby’s and Phillips with the overwhelming majority of the works appearing at the former house. It’s hardly uncommon for the influential Impressionist artist whose work prefigures Modern abstraction to be a mainstay of the auctions.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s A Sunflower from Maggie (1937) will be a highlight of Christie’s 20th Century Art Evening sale this May in New York. The painting comes from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA); it is being deaccessioned to benefit the museum’s future acquisitions.

Following last November’s blow-out sale of works by Vincent van Gogh, $160 million in only four works by the artist were sold in the New York sales, Christie’s has announced a major landscape for the May sales.

The three-part work from the 1982 Fun Gallery show is priced at more than $30 million

Already achieving six-figure prices, South African painter Cinga Samson has two works in London’s sales with attractive estimates. Here’s how he rose to prominence.

Galleries hauled their art to Los Angeles and were rewarded with these sales …

Danica Lundy depicts unsentimental—and uncanny—memories of youth at Magenta Plains. Her solo exhibition of Lundy’s high-impact oil paintings will be on view through March 10th, 2022. 

Benjamin Godsill of Curatorial Services, LLC and the Nota Bene podcast discusses his ideal client and collecting art to gain a better understanding of the world.

The Frick’s “Living Histories” series provokes strong reactions as the contemporary Queer painter takes on Holbein

One of the painter's last monumental triptychs comes to the block from a Swiss collection. Christie’s announced overnight that it would be selling Francis Bacon’s Triptych 1986-87 estimated at £35,000,000 ($47.3 million).