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Displaying all articles tagged:
Art Auctions
magical thinking
Nov. 18, 2022
Excess and Earnestness at Joan Didion’s Estate Sale
Things began going off the rails when the first painting went for $110,000.
By
Erin Somers
for sale
Aug. 27, 2022
Paul Allen’s $1 Billion Art Collection Will Be Sold for Charity
The late Microsoft co-founder’s collection is going up for grabs in the largest art auction ever.
By
Jennifer Zhan
art du jour
Mar. 11, 2021
Someone Really Spent $69 Million on This Nice JPG
“Everydays — The First 5000 Days” is a digital collage.
By
Devon Ivie
art auctions
July 14, 2016
For $13 Million, David Bowie’s Elusive Art Collection Could Be Yours
More than 400 works owned by Bowie will go on display at Sotheby’s in November, and then up for auction.
By
Dee Lockett
art and design 2016
Apr. 22, 2016
5 Lessons in Today’s Art Market From a Sotheby’s Advisor
Sotheby’s Amy Cappellazzo has made a very nice career out of pricing pigment.
By
Amy Cappellazzo
As told to
Andrew Rice
May 11, 2015
Good-bye Forever to Picasso’s
Women of Algiers
I set eyes on the beautiful reward by Picasso known as
The Women of Algiers
, an epic master class on the ways of painting, which will be sold tonight to a private collector for $140 million.
By
Jerry Saltz
May 5, 2015
Who’s Off-loading Masterworks at This Month’s Auctions?
Step right up to get your Rothkos, Picassos, and Monets in the $2.3 billion sale-a-thon.
By
Nate Freeman
art auctions
Nov. 13, 2013
Francis Bacon Painting Breaks Auction Record, Sells for $142 million
In your screaming face, Edvard Munch
.
By
Jesse David Fox
art auctions
Nov. 13, 2012
A Rothko From 1954 Just Sold for an Ungodly Sum
$75.1 million for
No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)
.
By
Zach Dionne
art auctions
May 3, 2012
Jerry Saltz: This Is Why I Hate Big-Money Art Auctions
Not just because they’re freak-show legal casinos.
By
Jerry Saltz
party lines
Mar. 17, 2010
McDormand Hosts Wooster’s First Art Auction
Even though photographers ask him to write them all the time.
By
Bennett Marcus