Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol are expected to be the stars of the latest auction of contemporary art in London, according to Sotheby’s, which will stage the sale, conservatively estimated to yield $328.9 million. Works by Keith Haring, Joseph Beuys, Tim Noble and Sue Webster will also be included in the July 1,2 auction....
Sotheby’s kicked off the Spring art auctions with the sale of a Van Gogh painting for $66.3 million, the highest price paid for a work by the Dutch artist since 1998, the auction house said. Claude Monet’s water lilies also sold for $54 million. The Impressionist and modern art sale Tuesday, saw Van Gogh’s “L’allée Des Alyscamps” go to a private collector in Asia after heated bidding with at least five other collectors. Van Gogh’s works have always been among the most collectible among Impressionist artists. ...
Tad Smith, who spent the past year as a sports and entertainment executive at Madison Square Garden, made a dramatic shift to the art world yesterday (Mar. 16) with his appointment as Chief Executive of Sotheby’s auction house in New York City. The move caught both the art and sports world by surprise. Smith, who will replace outgoing CEO William Ruprecht on March 31, ...
New York billionaire Leon Black spent $120 million in 12 minutes of furious bidding to become the proud owner of one of four copies of Edvard Munch’s masterpiece “The Scream.” TheImproper reported in February that Sotheby’s auction house in New York would sell the painting to the highest bidder in May. It was considered the ultimate prize for collectors of pre-expressionist 19th Century art, or any art for that matter....
The art market shows no signs of cooling off after record sale prices in the past week for works like Andy Warhol’s “Double Elvis,” Roy Lichtenstein’s “Sleeping Girl,” and Mark Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow.”...
Elvis Presley has been worth more dead than he ever was in his lifetime, but the late pop artist Andy Warhol could send the King of Rock through the stratosphere. A Warhol painting of Elvis is expected to fetch an astronomical sum at auction. Presley is garbed in cowboy duds, with a six-gun drawn. Sotheby's described him as "a Hollywood icon of the '60s rather than the rebellious singer who shook the world of music."...
Edvard Munch's iconic image "The Scream" has been burned into the human psyche as man's primal cry. For a mere $80 million or more, the last privately held copy, one of four created by the artist, can be yours. Sotheby's auction house in New York announced that the work will be sold to the highest bidder in May. It's the ultimate prize for collectors of pre-expressionist 19th Century art, or any art for that matter....
Are the art markets telling us something about the global economy we don't know? Like the old Watergate adage, if your really want to find out what's going on, follow the money. In this case, it's pouring into contemporary art....
Victorian novelist Jane Austen's handwritten manuscript for "The Watsons" about four daughters of a widowed clergyman who endeavor to marry well, has fetched a stunning $1.4 million at auction....
Christie’s contemporary and post-war art auction marked the end of New York’s fall art season this week and dispelled once and for all concerns about the strength of the art market in the fragile economy....
Actress Demi Moore will be among the highlights of Sotheby's auction of Victorian era paintings, when two works from her collection go on the auction block. She could be in for a big payday....
Model Jerry Hall, ex-wife of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, plans to auction 14 of her artworks next month, including a famous portrait by Lucian Freud that shows her nude when she was eight months pregnant....
A painting with a long and controversial provenance tracing back to a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, shocked bidders at an Old Masters Sotheby's auction....
