Ripple effect of record sales in New York

Christie’s broke the record for the highest amount raised in one auction last week when its contemporary and Modern sale in New York raised $ 495m. Big-ticket items included Roy Lichtenstein’s Woman with Flowered Hat, 1963, (detail, below) bought for…
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US retakes top spot in art sales from China

On Friday, 15 March, the art economist Clare McAndrew is due to present the findings of her annual art market report at a panel discussion held during Tefaf in Maastricht. Focusing on the emerging market of China and Brazil, the report reveals a…
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Surprising records set at New York’s Old Master sales

Christie’s dominated the January Old Master week in New York with a fistful of record-setting paintings and drawings. Their 30 January paintings sale was led by Fra Bartolommeo’s early tondo of the Madonna and Child which sold for $ …
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Miró sets record at Sotheby’s in London’s modern art sales

The June sales of impressionist and modern art in London produced very different results even if some startlingly high prices were achieved.

Things got off to a limp start at Sotheby’s evening sale on 19 June in a session that was marked by poor…
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Contemporary art sales raise $635m in just three days

new york. Any fears that a yo-yoing stock market, turmoil in the eurozone and gloomy global outlook could drag down the market for contemporary art were comprehensively swept away in New York this week.

In three evening sales Phillips de Pury,…
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