Christie’s and Sotheby’s went head-to-head in Hong Kong last week, creating an auction season around the city’s Art Basel fair for the first time, which helped to boost the energy levels in the salerooms. Each auction
Posted 6 days ago by inuno.ai
Tiny green shoots of recovery have been discernible in a stubbornly bearish art market during London’s marquee auctions this week, but Phillips slim 29-lot evening sale yesterday (6 March) punched below its weight, bringing in £12.2m
Posted March 8, 2025 by inuno.ai
Banksy always draws a crowd. Last night, some 500 people crammed into Sotheby’s to see how his 2005 painting, Crude Oil (Vettriano), would perform in the auction house’s annual March evening auction of Modern and contemporary
Posted March 7, 2025 by inuno.ai
Despite the outside world’s continuing slide into geopolitical chaos, the mood—and the numbers—in the international art market were given a definite lift last night in London as Christie’s turned over £130.3m (with fees) at a marathon
Posted March 7, 2025 by inuno.ai