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Sotheby's Contemporary Curated for September 2002 totals $35 million showing an 8% drop from the last comparable sale.

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

Sotheby's Artist's Choice program for artists and galleries to consign directly and donate to charity launches with Noah Horowitz at the helm.

Claude Monet sold $451 million worth of art in the first half of 2022. Another $350 million in Monets are coming to market in Fall 2022 with the Paul G. Allen collection.

Combined sales make $181 million from Bacon, Monet, Warhol, Richter and a range of women artists young and old.

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

The Bullet: The Now: $72,930,850 with 100% sold (23/23 + one lot withdrawn); Contemporary Evening sale: $210,502,700 with 93% sold (26/27 + one lot withdrawn) Composition of Results: The Now: 65% above/ 26% within/ 7% below estimates  Contemporary Evening sale: 33% above/ 41% within/ 26% below estimates 

Results from the Modern Evening Sale at Sotheby's New York, in which half of the sale’s lots were covered by IBs

A breakdown of the second half of the Macklowe Collection at Sotheby's plus need-to-know lots from Rothko to Koons and the state of global bidding

Sotheby’s and Christie’s dueling target paintings might cause a market overhaul for the Color Field painter. Though his paintings sit on the same textbook pages as Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland’s prices on the secondary market lag behind his peers.

As more works from Katz's prime period in the 1970s come to auction, could his market finally get momentum? It’s a big auction season for the most famous names and for emerging talent. But there’s also a few familiar artists whose work seems poised to try to break out of past sales patterns.

Sotheby’s Hong Kong sale cycle was overshadowed by China’s zero Covid policy, but that didn’t seem to dampen demand. Over four sales, nearly $200 million in art was sold and sell-through rates were in the ninetieth percentiles for the Evening sales and eightieth percentiles for the Day sales.