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Christie's will offer 16 works from Si Newhouse Jr's art collection, including works by Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Lee Bontecou and Jasper Johns, in single-owner evening sale in New York in May 2023

Phillips announces £7 million Willem de Kooning and £10 million Gerhard Richter for London sale on March 2nd.

Sotheby's will over Wassily Kandinsky's Murnau mit Kirche II from 1910 with expectations of $45 million sale on March 1, 2023

David M. Solinger's 90-lot collection estimated at $100 million to be sold at Sotheby's in dedicated sale, in November of 2022

Paul Allen's billion-dollar collection will be sold on November 9 & 10 in New York with three works estimated above $100 million

If you had told anyone six months ago that a painting by Lynne Drexler would be offered at auction in Los Angeles with a low estimate of $500,000, the response would have been laughter. But this week Bonhams announced it would be offering Grass Symphony from 1962 at its Los Angeles sale on September 14th with a $500,000 low estimate.

If you thought the Ernie Barnes wave had run its course, last week gave you a big surprise. During Christie's London sale, Main Street Pool Hall from 1978 made $1.8 million against an estimate under $100,000. That was the third highest price paid for a Barnes painting after the $15 million record Sugar Shack from 1976 and the $2.34 million paid for Storm Dance from 1977. Both of those sales took place in early May.

Unseen for 57 years, the central panel from a triptych portrait that Bacon himself broke up appears in London

On the heels of her Venice triumph and a strong new record set in New York, Christie's will open London evening sale with a recent work.

Christie's announced that Victor Pinchuk and his wife Olena are selling their Jeff Koons Balloon Monkey (Magenta) in London later this month with a £6 million ($7.5 million) estimate.

More art by Claude Monet was sold in New York’s May sales than trades in even the biggest years for the artist. A full $310 million was traded for Monet paintings last month. That’s more than sold in 2019, a banner year for the artist.

One of the largest Yves Klein Anthropométrie works still in private hands stars in London-to-Paris relay sale at Christie's