Tag: Bonhams
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UK Government Slaps Export Ban on Howard Hodgkin Work After Bonhams Sold It for Record £1.7 M.
British officials are trying to keep a major painting by the late London-born artist Howard Hodgkin from leaving the UK. Last week, the country’s Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) placed an export ban on Mrs Acton in Delhi (1967–71), giving a British museum or gallery the chance to buy it instead. The move read more
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Bonhams Unveils 57th Street Flagship With Cuban Art, Brancusi, and Boxing Legends
Bonhams has a new front door in New York, and it is not subtle. This week, the 232-year-old auction house opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street, inside the restored Steinway Hall and beneath the pencil-thin tower that now looms over Billionaires’ Row. The move shifts Bonhams from its longtime Madison Avenue read more
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Bonhams Posts $970 M. in 2025 Sales as It Tries to Turn the Page
Bonhams ended 2025 with $970 million in global sales, a headline number that, in another year, might have been received as unambiguously good news. Instead, it arrives trailing a thicket of context: a widely circulatedFinancial Timesreporton a £213 million pre-tax loss, a change in ownership, and renewed scrutiny of how auction houses account for downturns read more
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