Tag: Auction
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Artist Ali Cherri Files Complaint After Israeli Army Kills His Parents, Indian Painting Sets Auction Record: Morning Links for April 2, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines BEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against “unknown perpetrators,” and denouncing the Israeli army’s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a read more
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$45 M. Basquiat Painting, ‘A Storied Masterpiece,’ Heads to Auction at Sotheby’s
A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat will head to auction at Sotheby’s this May with an estimate “in excess of $45 million,” the house announced on Monday, poising it to become one of the most expensive works by the artist ever to hit the block. The painting, titled Museum Security (Broadway Meltdown) and dated to 1983, read more
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Art by Famed Prisoner Charles Bronson Will Head to Auction
Five hundred artworks by Charles Bronson, one of England’s most infamous outsider artists, are set to be auctioned by UK auction house David Duggleby Auctioneers in Murton, according to the BBC. The works, which belong to a single owner, will be offered as one lot on March 11. Now 73, Bronson was born Michael Peterson read more
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Sotheby’s to Auction $130 M. Robert Mnuchin Collection Led by $70–100 M. Rothko Painting
Sotheby’s is preparing to bring works from the collection of the late dealer and financierRobert Mnuchinto auction this May in New York, adding a fresh trove of blue-chip material to a season the house hopes will build on its blockbuster November and a strong start to the spring sales. The consignment is made up of read more
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Salvador Dalí’s Largest Ever Painting Heads to Auction
This month, Salvador Dalí’s largest ever painting, a monumental stage set measuring 65 by 100 feet, will head to auction in Paris. The work, which comes from a private collection, will lead Bonhams’s fourth annual sale dedicated to Surrealism on Thursday, March 26 and is estimated to bring $236,000–$350,000. Dalí conceived the 13-panel set for read more
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Artists Rally for Jamaica and L.A. With a Hollywood Auction During Art Week
The art world loves a party. This time it’s putting that energy to work. On February 26, during L.A. Art Week, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) and TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary will launch“Get Up Stand Up: Artists for Jamaica and Los Angeles,” a benefit auction aimed at long-term recovery efforts after Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica read more
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Sotheby’s to Auction Jean and Terry de Gunzburg Collection, Led by Claude Lalanne Mirrors and $15 M. Rothko
Sotheby’s is about to turn a pair of very polished lives into a two-part auction season. In April and May, the house will present roughly 135 works from the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg, carrying a combined estimate of $67 million to $99 million. The first chapter arrives on April 22 with a read more
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What Would Happen to Auction Houses If Luxury Sales Outstrip Art Sales?
Editor’s Note:This story originally appeared inOn Balance,the ARTnewsnewsletter about the art market and beyond.Sign up hereto receive it every Wednesday. This story is also part of a new series on the convergence of art andluxury. See all ofour reporting on the topic here. Since I started reporting on the convergence of the art and luxury read more
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Four Major Works by Bacon, Freud, and Kossoff from Lewis Collection to Hit Auction Block at Sotheby’s London in March
Sotheby’s will offer four major works from the Lewis Collection next month, spearheaded by a 1972 self-portrait by Francis Bacon, in what the auction house described as a markedly stronger market than a year ago. The group, which includes two portraits by Lucian Freud and a rare swimming pool scene by Leon Kossoff, will be read more
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Gagosian Plans Lichtenstein ‘Brushstroke’ Show, Following Last Year’s $150 M. Auction Run and Ahead of Whitney Retrospective
This spring, Gagosian will open its 14th exhibition dedicated to Roy Lichtenstein. Titled “Painting with Scattered Brushstrokes,” the exhibition draws exclusively from the Lichtenstein family collection and will feature paintings, sculpture, watercolors, and works on paper from the 1970s and ’80s. Opening March 19 at the gallery’s 541 West 24th Street space, the show lands read more
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Empress Eugénie’s Crown to be Restored After Louvre Heist, Rembrandt Drawing Breaks Auction Record: Morning Links for February 5, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. THE HEADLINES FALLEN CROWN. For the first time since the brazen theft of French crown jewels, the Louvre has publicly shared images of Empress Eugénie’s crown, which was badly crushed by thieves who tried but failed to make off with it. Investigators determined that the read more
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Bottle of Dom Perignon from King Charles III and Princess Diana’s Wedding Comes to Auction
A once-in-a-lifetime bottle of champagne from the 1981 marriage of King Charles III (at the time the Prince of Wales) to Lady Diana Spencer will hit the auction block at Bruun Rasmussen on December 11. The pair wed on July 29, 1981, in a ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, which was followed by read more
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