Brancusi Kiss: French Authorities Refuse Historical Monument Export Licence
A sculpture by the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi is the subject of a long-running legal battle. It has now been…
23 September 2021
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Bellagio To Sell Eleven Picassos Valued At $100m – Stefan Kalmár Steps Down From London’s ICA- Helsinki Biennial Blends Art With Environment
Bellagio To Sell Eleven Picassos Valued At $100m – Stefan Kalmár Steps Down From London’s ICA- Helsinki Biennial Blends Art With Environment
13 August 2021
Da Vinci Drawing Export Freeze – Leonardo Bear Drawing Auctioned – Restituted Van Dyck Painting Sells
Da Vinci Drawing Export Freeze – Leonardo Bear Drawing Auctioned – Restituted Van Dyck Painting Sells At Sothebys
8 July 2021
Picasso Monet Basquiat and Kusama Brighten Up New York Spring Auctions
Results from the major Modern and Contemporary art sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams’ NY has conveyed a message of optimism to the COVID hit art market.
13 May 2021
Van Gogh and Hals Theft Arrest – Bayeux Tapestry Loan In Jeopardy – $55m Picasso At Christie’s
Van Gogh and Hals Theft Arrest – Bayeux Tapestry Loan In Jeopardy – $55m Picasso At Christie’s
7 April 2021
Banksy Game Changer Raises £16.8m For NHS Charities
Banksy ‘Game Changer’ painting Raises £16.8m For NHS Charities At Christie’s in London
23 March 2021
New London Gallery Weekend Announced For June 2021 – Christie’s Drops Impressionist Nomenclatures – Marina Abramović Guest Curates WePresent Series
New London Gallery Weekend Announced For June 2021 Christie’s Drops Impressionist Nomenclatures Marina Abramović Guest Curates WePresent Series
18 March 2021
Damien Hirst Releases 10k NFT Drawings With HENI – Only 4% Of Auction Sales Are Women Artists – Former Fulham Town Hall To Host Art Exhibitions
Damien Hirst Releases NFT – Only 4% Of Auction Sales Are Women Artists – Former Fulham Town Hall Hosts Art Exhibitions
15 March 2021
Banksy Game Changer Mural Donated To The NHS Auctioned
A mural by the elusive Street Artist Banksy titled ‘Game Changer’ will go under the auction hammer at Christie’s
10 March 2021
How Corporate! Hockney Hires Managing Director – Sotheby’s Out Performs Christie’s in 2020 – Mega* Barbara Streisand Buys A $4.5m Van Gogh
How Corporate! Hockney Hires Managing Director – Sotheby’s Out Performs Christie’s in 2020 – Mega* Barbara Streisand Buys A $4.5m Van Gogh
21 December 2020
Monolith Found On The Isle of Wight – Rex Whistler’s Racist Tate Mural – Christie’s NY Post War Results
Artlyst Fast News: Monolith Found On The Isle of Wight Mirrors US Finds
7 December 2020
London Art Week Goes Digital This July
This summer London Art Week is launching a new online platform. LAW DIGITAL which will showcase the world’s leading pre-contemporary galleries from 3 – 10 July 2020, with a Private View on Thursday 2 July.
12 May 2020
Sotheby’s Announce Significant Redundancies Due To Coronavirus
Sotheby’s has announced significant redundancies, staff hiatuses, and pay cuts as a result of the Coronavirus.
2 April 2020
David Hockney’s Iconic Splash Painting Sells For £23m
David Hockney’s iconic work, The Splash, has been sold for £23.1m at Sotheby’s in London. The name of the buyer has not been disclosed. It had been estimated to sell for £20m-£30m – and ended up going for £23,117,000.
11 February 2020
Cecily Brown To Mount Major Show At Blenheim Palace
The Blenheim Art Foundation will unveil a significant solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Cecily Brown at Blenheim Palace, running from 23 April to 5 July 2020.
19 January 2020
Lost LS Lowry Painting Sells At Christie’s For £2.65m
A long lost painting by LS Lowry which hasn’t been seen for 70 years has been rediscovered and heads for the auction block at Christie’s in the new year. The work titled The Mill, Pendlebury, painted in 1943 shows workers on a bank holiday with children playing cricket.
26 December 2019
Peter Doig and Parisian Avant-Gardists Launch London Autumn Gallery Season – Edward Lucie Smith
Two exhibitions just opened at a pair of well-respected West End commercial galleries here in London, seem to illustrate the complexity of the contemporary art situation as it is now.
9 September 2019
Brancusi Sculpture Damaged: Should This Devalue The £18m Work
When someone attacked Michelangelo’s Pieta with a hammer in the 1970s, the sculpture was severely damaged. It was restored and put back on display at the Vatican. A few years later a paranoid schizophrenic slashed Rembrandt’s masterpiece ‘The Night Watch’ putting a gaping hole in the canvas with a bread knife, at the Rijksmuseum.
8 August 2019
Export Ban: Glyn Philpot Painting Of Nijinsky No Great National Loss
A temporary export bar on a painting depicting the Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinksy by the English artist Glyn Philpot has been placed by Arts Minister Rebecca Pow, in a bid to keep it in the country.
22 July 2019
Constantin Brancusi: Elderly New York Art Collector Sues Lawyer Over Deceit
An elderly New York art collector has taken his Philadelphia attorney to court for cheating him out of millions.
21 July 2019
Christie’s Contemporary Evening Auction Sees Cecily Brown, Dubuffet and Basquiat Soar
The London Summer Art week which includes Contemporary auctions at both Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Masterpiece London the art fair recently acquired by Art Basel as well a Olympia and newcomer FairForSaatchi is well on the way.
27 June 2019
Da Vinci Salvator Mundi Not Onboard Saudi Prince’s Yacht
I think it’s hilarious that Kenny Schachter’s ‘April-fool-style’ reporting of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi hiding aboard Saudi Prince MBS’s yacht… Read More
12 June 2019
Jeff Koons $91m Rabbit Sets World Auction Record for Living Artist
Christies Postwar and Contemporary Sale in New York has realised a total of $538,971,750 / £418,131,691 million, reaching their revised presale estimates after the withdrawal of two key works of art.
16 May 2019
Rare Modigliani Limestone Sculpture To Be Auctioned At Christie’s
Christie’s NY is to offer a rare Amedeo Modigliani’s limestone sculpture, Tête, carved circa 1911-1912, in its New York Evening Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art, On May 13.
20 April 2019
Francis Bacon Screaming Pope Portrait to Be Auctioned At Sotheby’s
Francis Bacon’s $20-30m ‘Screaming Pope’ Study for a Head is to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, in May. It is one of the most iconic works by the artist remaining in private hands
1 April 2019
George Michael Art Collection Auction Raises £9.4m For Philanthropic Work
The highly anticipated auction of British singer and songwriter George Michael’s art collection which captured the spirit of the 1980s and 1990s, has realised £9,264,000 / $12,302,590 / €10,848,145. Proceeds from the sale will be used to continue George Michael’s philanthropic work.
14 March 2019
Hockney Tops Christie’s Contemporary Sale With £33m Double Portrait
Post War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s London saw 41 lots finding buyers with three unsold and if not a record price for David Hockney’s Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott (1969), a solid over the estimated sale price £33 million ($43.4 million)
7 March 2019
George Michael’s Contemporary Art Collection To Be Auctioned At Christie’s
The late George Michael, the British singer and songwriter, is to auction off his extensive collection of YBA artworks.
8 February 2019
Billion Dollar Week For Christie’s And Sotheby’s As Iconic Works Smash Records
It’s been a week of record-breaking sales for the two leading auction houses Christie’s and Sotheby’s recording billion dollar sales totals and record-breaking prices for artists living and deceased.
20 November 2018
David Hockney Pool Painting Breaks All Records For Living Artist $90 312 500
A David Hockney painting depicting an iconic landscape with swimming pool has broken world records in New York. Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), painted in 1972, realised $90.3 million after frantic bidding. This is a world record price for a living artist meanwhile the 20th Century season total passes the $1 billion mark.
16 November 2018
Hopper’s Iconic Chop Suey Painting Achieves $91,875,000 In Blockchain Sale
Important paintings from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection totalled $317,801,250, at Christie’s last night with record prices achieved for the American artist Edward Hopper in the first high-net value Blockchain sale.
14 November 2018
Diebenkorn Ocean Park Masterpiece From Mary Tyler Moore Collection Auctioned At Christie’s
Christie’s NY will be offering a large Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park series painting from 1985 on November 15.
25 October 2018