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Christie's

Christie's Cleans Up Gigaweek with $422m Double Header

Christie's sold $421m in art by Modigliani, Rothko, Jeff Koons, Jean-Michel Basquiat and others to close out a $3bn season.

Marion Maneker

18 November, 2022

Contemporary Art

Sotheby's $315m Contemporary Sale

Sotheby's The Now made $45 million and its Contemporary Evening sale made $269 million as the art market showed more demand that expected.

Marion Maneker

17 November, 2022

Phillips

Phillips $139m Auction is 3rd Highest

Phillips Auction sells $139 million in Contemporary and Modern art in stable market.

Marion Maneker

16 November, 2022

Sotheby's

Sotheby's $391m Modern Evening

Sotheby's sale of William Paley and David Solinger's art boosts the Modern total to $391m with Mondrian, de Kooning, Picasso and Giacometti leading the sales.

Marion Maneker

15 November, 2022

Christie's

What Does the Allen Sale Mean to the Art Market?

Paul Allen's $1.6 billion art collection is a never-to-be repeated event. But that doesn't mean its success can't tell us a lot about the state of the art market.

Marion Maneker

11 November, 2022

Christie's

Did Paul Allen's Provenance Pay Off?

Paul Allen's $115 million Day sale gives the market a better indication of whether buyers were attracted to the art works or Allen's place in history.

Marion Maneker

11 November, 2022

Christie's

Paul Allen Collection Makes $1.5 Billion

Paul Allen's collection of art sold for $1.5 billion at Christie's. The proceeds will go to fund the Paul Allen Foundation.

Marion Maneker

10 November, 2022

Auctions

November Auctions at a Glance

LiveArt has an easy-to-save calendar and the need-to-know lots for all of the November New York sales.

Cara Blumstein

07 November, 2022

Alighiero Boetti

Putting Alighiero Boetti on the Map

Alighiero Boetti's Mappa works are setting records this Fall. How Boetti's embroidered maps fit into his market and why his prices are rising is mapped out in this post.

Marion Maneker

05 November, 2022

Alex Katz

Alex Katz Unleashed

Alex Katz's retrospective at the Guggenheim museum has brought his auction market up to a whole new level.

Marion Maneker

04 November, 2022

Phillips

Phillips to Offer $35m Twombly

Phillips will offer an untitled Cy Twombly work from the 2005 series of paintings titled Bacchus Psilax Mainomenos for $35 million during its November sale.

Marion Maneker

28 October, 2022

Andy Warhol

Did the $195m Marilyn Advance the Warhol Market?

Sotheby's will auction one of Andy Warhol's most valuable works—White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times)—which is expected to make a price in excess of $80 million.

Marion Maneker

28 October, 2022

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