This year marks a second consecutive drop in annual sales for Christie’s, which released its projected 2024 results Tuesday (17 December). The total figures provided by the auction house are…
In June, Christie’s France announced a slew of records from the €26.7m sale of Jean Siméon Chardin’s masterpiece still life Cut Melon (1760), including “a world record for Chardin”, “the…
The Groucho Club, the London member’s club owned by the founders of Hauser & Wirth gallery, has been allowed to reopen following an alleged rape at the Soho venue. The…
A pandemic, wars, geopolitical tensions, economic strife: the 2020s have been quite the ride so far. Many will be glad to see the back of 2024 and hope that 1…
The family of late Marlborough Gallery chairman Pierre Levai has filed a lawsuit to prevent the art dealer’s lover from accessing a seven-figure inheritance, claiming she was responsible for his…
A rare version of a famous bronze by Camille Claudel, lost for more than a century, is coming to auction after being discovered in an abandoned Paris flat. Certified by…
The withdrawal of four lots from a Christie’s sale in New York earlier this year has renewed scrutiny on a recent exhibition in London to which they were loaned. The…
This year’s Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting had an extra piece of research, a smaller survey of 1,400 private buyers drawn from Art Basel’s VIP list. As…
Sotheby’s has performed a U-turn on its recently overhauled premium structure, the latest decision in what has proved a dramatic year for the auction house. An email sent from the…
The auction house exodus continues, this time at Phillips, where Ed Dolman has resigned as executive chairman. He has held that position since 2021, having joined the firm as chief…
