Auctions

Frida Kahlo’s “Dream (The Bed)” has shattered expectations, achieving an Artwork Record for a Female

Artist at a recent Sotheby's Auction in New York. The self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, "Dream (The Bed)", sold for an…

2 months ago

Hermitage Fine Art to Present Exceptional Napoleonic Era Auction This July

Online Catalogue Now Available FINE ART: from the 19th century to Modern Art, Eastern European art, Ballets Russes, Icons Monte Carlo…

6 months ago

A rare Zelensky and other Ukrainian masters at MacDougall’s

ECOLE DE PARIS AND OTHER MASTERS ONLINE AUCTION ON DROUOT.COM, UNTIL 10 APRIL 2024 MacDougall’s is proud to present Wet…

2 years ago

Warhol’s Bullet-Marred Portrait of Marilyn Monroe Sells for $195 M., A Record for the Pop Artist

An iconic painting of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol has been auctioned for $195m (£158.17m) - making it the most…

4 years ago

Record-Salings ‘Marilyn’ Warhol Brings Christie’s Sale of Famed Ammann Collection to $318 M.

Following the opening of New York Art Week that brought several fairs back to the city after pandemic-related delays, 36…

4 years ago

The Top-10 Expensive KAWS Works Ever Sold at Auction

New Jersey–born artist Brian Donnelly, also known as KAWS, got his start as a street artist in the 1990s, and…

4 years ago

Pablo Picasso’s first Cubist sculpture by the Metropolitan Museum could bring $30m at Christie’s

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is selling a valuable bronze cast of a woman’s head by Pablo Picasso, dated to…

4 years ago

Catherine the Great Called for Vaccination

On 20 April 1787 Empress Catherine the Great wrote the first known document calling for vaccination in Russia. Concerned about…

4 years ago

Henryk Siemiradzki’s masterpiece at MacDougall’s auction on 1 December 2021, London

On 1 December 2021 MacDougall’s in London will offer Henryk Siemiradzki’s exceptional work UnNaufragé mendiant, 1878 (estimate £ 730,000–900,000). Undoubtedly,…

4 years ago

NFT art sales hit $3.5bn so far this year

The latest Hiscox Online Art Trade Report finds that this booming asset class benefitted from a late-summer surge. Sceptics said…

4 years ago