London is known for gin and tonic, Bacon and Freud, Gilbert and George, and Damien and Tracey. When I moved to the UK in 2004, London also boasted a burgeoning auction market, and was said to be on ...
LONDON --An exuberant floral landscape by Gustav Klimt has sold at auction for more than $59 million - the third-highest price ever paid for an artwork in Europe. “Bauerngarten (Flower Garden),” ...
(Bloomberg) -- It hasn’t exactly been an easy year for the world’s two biggest auction houses as their major sales contracted, clients got spooked by falling oil prices and scores of specialists ...
‘Out of hours’, weekends and public holidays automatically meant every amenity ceased functioning and were closed to ...
Our columnist Kenny Schachter delves into the backroom shenanigans of London's auctions, the Sotheby's sale, and summer's other big art deals. Money was the medium, as in Damien’s diamonds; now it’s ...
Auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams have canceled sales of Russian art in London in June, part of the art market’s response to Western sanctions on Russia as punishment for its invasion ...
LONDON—Midway through London’s winter auctions, the art market is looking as mottled as a Claude Monet. In yet another sign of the art market’s decline, collectors sniffed at some of the priciest ...
Other notable lots include ‘The Jungle Book’ cels, ‘The Little Mermaid’s Ursula, and original storyboards from ‘Cars’ (2006) and ‘A Bug’s Life’ (1998). The auction opens with in-room bidding, on ...
The statue's auction is scheduled for next month. Cairo -- Egyptian authorities are demanding that the London arm of auction house Christie's halt an auction of a stone sculpture of King Tutankhamun ...