Prepping for its Nov. 9 contemporary art evening sale, Sotheby’s has released details of the four Clyfford Still paintings that it will sell on behalf of Denver, which is home to the Still Museum, which will open in November. The works are expected to fetch between about $50 million and $70 million, well more than the $25 million that the museum has said it wants to raise for its endowment. Read More
Sotheby’s York Avenue headquarters in New York will open a two-floor gallery space called S2 next week with a private selling show of the artist Sam Francis.
The show, on display from September 17 through October 14, will inaugurate the new space, which was designed by architect Richard Gluckman. The Francis exhibit is pegged Read More
Less than 18 months after it failed to find a buyer during an evening sale at Phillips de Pury & Company in London, a gigantic, unusual Roy Lichtenstein piece will be offered by Sotheby’s New York, on Sept. 22, with a far lower estimate.
When it hit the block at Phillips in June 2010, the 8-foot-long acrylic on board work, called Prop for a Film (1969), was tagged with a £500,000 to £700,000 estimate, or about $754,000 to $1.05 million at the time of the sale. This time, it’s expected to sell for a comparatively modest $400,000 to $600,000. Read More
Over the objections of Christie’s, the Denver City Council voted last night to approve the sale of four Clyfford Still paintings through Sotheby’s in order to benefit the endowment of the Clyfford Still Museum, which is set to open in the city in November. A press official at the City Council told The Observer this morning that the decision was unanimous. Read More
Negotiations between Sotheby’s and the Teamsters Local 814, which represents the auction house’s 43 art union art handlers, fell through yesterday when representatives for Sotheby’s walked away from the bargaining table some two and a half hours after the talks began.
According to Local 814 President Jason Ide, the meeting consisted of a review of Read More
As market indices around the world slid today, roiled by debt concerns, Sotheby’s stock took an especially hard hit, falling more than 13.3 percent, with trading volume totaling three times its average. The auction house’s stock price is now down 29 percent over the past 30 days.
Last week, Sotheby’s, which is the only Read More
Sotheby’s announced that its total sales reached $3.4 billion in the first half of this year, an all-time record for the house that was strong enough to best its rival Christie’s, which last month reported about $3.2 billion worth of sales during that time period. Read More
“How much for Jimmy Juggs’ job?” bellowed a bald man in sunglasses. Next to him stood a younger man in a hard hat, looking sheepish as his fist was held aloft by the elder man. On the far side of the pseudonymous Mr. Juggs stood an inflatable rat, all three reflected in the glass front Read More
The 43 members of the Teamsters Local 814 were all handed letters as they clocked out on Friday telling them not to bother coming in to work today. Their previous contract with Read More
The list of the artists, writers, musicians and sundry other creative types who have lived at the Chelsea Hotel is staggering: Bob Dylan, Charles Bukowski, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Janis Joplin, Larry Rivers…
So, apparently, is the list of artworks that have disappeared from its walls over the years. Read More
