A Francis Bacon painting featuring the painter’s signature pope figure could fetch more than $40 million at Phillips next month. Pope with Owls (ca. 1958) will make its auction debut after 35…
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A 13th-century candlestick broke Sotheby’s record at auction for an object from the Islamic art world when it sold for £6.6 million ($9.1 million) after a 25-minute bidding…
Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, became one of the most expensive living artists in the world when he sold Everydays: The First 5,000 Days (2021) at Christie’s for…
The world’s biggest Triceratops fossil ever found, a 66-million-old skeleton affectionately dubbed “Big John,” has sold for €6.6 million ($7.7 million) — smashing its high auction…
The sale was part of a bid by MGM Resorts to diversify its collection to include more art from women, people of color and emerging nations…
The first NFT to come to auction in Europe—and only minted in September—sold for just shy of one million pounds to a bidder sat in the…
A work by British street artist Banksy that sensationally self-shredded just after it sold at auction three years ago fetched 18.5 million pounds ($25.4 million), a…
Following the record-setting $92 million sales of a Sandro Botticelli painting last year, Sotheby’s is bringing another 15th-century portrait by the Renaissance artist to the auction…
David A Lindon has recreated Munch’s The Scream, Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Monet’s Water Lily, Banksy’s Girl With Balloon, and van Gogh’s The Starry…
Christie’s is auctioning a painting by Peter Doig. The painting is making its third appearance on the auction block, after being sold most recently in 2015,…
