At Last, Art At Christie's You Can Afford
Usually names like Pollock and Picasso draw the oohhs and ahhs at Christie's. But for the past two weeks, it's Jimmy Krzyzanowski who has been getting the rave reviews. And the artwork in question is...
View ArticleStill Life in the Art Book Trade?
New York has always been a haven for lovers of both art and books. Like the rest of the ever-consolidating book business, art bookstores have taken a hit in recent years. Just this past year, several...
View ArticleFrom Their Living Room to Yours
Most anything the big auction houses scrounge up for sale this fall season is bound to be something of a letdown. After a spring auction season dominated by Sotheby's Whitney auction and the $104...
View ArticleCashing in on the Man in Black
The first viewing of the Johnny and June Carter Cash auction at Sotheby's caused a stir, but probably not the sort the auction house had been expecting. It wasn't fans of the late singer, delirious...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Widow Sells World's Priciest Piece of Furniture
Christie's announced yesterday they will be selling the famed "Badminton Cabinet" - the furniture world's answer to the $104 million Picasso. The ornate cabinet, made of ebony and gilt bronze and...
View ArticleHow Much for That Buddha in the Window?
Asia Week comes twice a year, in March and September, anchored by weeklong auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's. March is usually the much larger affair, as international dealers descend to present...
View ArticleWASPs Gone Wild
Racing around town to all the fall auctions could be a fulltime job - for someone with endless money, patience, and square footage to decorate. For most New Yorkers these things are usually in short...
View ArticleGuests from the Winter Palace
Last spring, record crowds lined up outside Sotheby's for a glimpse of some of the world's glitziest baubles. Several Faberge eggs, from the Forbes Collection, were exhibited at Sotheby's before being...
View ArticleFall Auctions Heating Up
Sotheby's was first out of the gate this week, announcing the highlights for its fall sales of Impressionist and Modern art. The projected sale total - upwards of $208 million for the November auction...
View ArticleNew York's Finest Wine Sales
This year marks the 10th anniversary of wine auctions in New York. Only in 1994 did the State Legislature legalize wine auctions. In less than a decade, New York has surpassed London as the seat of the...
View ArticleLeighton's Goodbye is Christie's Gain
Fred Leighton, Madison Avenue jeweler to the stars and those with star-sized wallets, is a retailing phenomenon. In the 1970s, when he was known as Murray Mondschien, he hawked Mexican wedding dresses...
View ArticleCleaning House
At 6p.m. tonight, a sliver of Elton John's famous photo collection is scheduled to sell at Christie's. Photo collections don't usually get star billing, or an evening tee time. But Christie's is...
View ArticleFernwood Art Investments Taps David Nash
Fernwood Art Investments, an art investment and research fund aiming to tap the booming art market by pooling the resources of investors to purchase blue chip and emerging art, has announced the...
View ArticleOld Money and New Money on the Block
The rich are indeed different from you and me. They are also different from one another. On Saturday, two diametrically opposite collections will go to auction in the city. Textbook exemplars of old...
View ArticleRunning With the Bull Market
Next week's results certainly make for a nail-biter. But for the few thousand art collectors, dealers, and auction houses who trade in million-dollar artworks, the drama won't end with election...
View ArticleBidders Reward Bold Estimates at Christie's
A storm of fierce bidding whipped through the Christie's salesroom last night as buyers spent $128.2 million on 58 Impressionist and Modern artworks. The sale fared better than most dealers had...
View ArticleMarket Hits a Speed Bump at Sotheby's
The rain wasn't the only thing dampening spirits on York Avenue last night. At Sotheby's highly anticipated sale of Impressionist and Modern art, 61 lots expected to total between $203 million and $275...
View ArticleBringing the Market Into Focus
It will be hard for this week's sales of contemporary and postwar works to top the results the big auction houses netted last spring. In May, Contemporary art seemed hotter than even the Impressionist...
View ArticleRecord for Rothko as Postwar Works Soar
The art-market bubble just got a little bigger. Last night Sotheby's sold $93 million in contemporary art at a sale that showed buyers are willing to fork over unprecedented sums for marquee artworks,...
View ArticleAnother Stellar Sale at Christie's
Last night's sale of contemporary and postwar art at Christie's confirmed the art market is roaring as it hasn't done for more than a decade. The house sold 63 lots, raking in $92.5 million and setting...
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