The morning after Christie’s held its $301 million Wednesday-evening sale of Post-war and Contemporary art, the apex of last week’s marquee auction season, you might have expected auctioneers, dealers and collectors to wake up with a queasy combination of winner’s elation and buyer’s remorse. The Christie’s sale was the third headline event in a five-day Read More
Last November, Andy Warhol’s 1962 painting “Men in Her Life” sold for over $60 million at Phillips de Pury & Co. It went for well over its high estimate, and became the second most expensive Warhol painting ever to sell at public auction. Because both the buyer and the under bidder were on the phone, Read More
A 13-year-old forgery ring busted in France, a ten-year restitution debate resolved, and the 400-year-old mystery of the Medicis’ death solved. This week in art news: It’s about time.
1. Brits Fight for Arts Funding
British art-world heavyweights have begun a letter-writing campaign to the government protesting proposed budget Read More
In the art world, Chelsea gallerist Barry Friedman is known as something of a market-timer, dealing in Chinese contemporary art, Dale Chihuly glass and Tamara de Lempika paintings as collectors like Madonna and Steve Wynn move in and out of those fields. This month, he’s showing Wendell Castle, an artist who is, to say the Read More
