Let's say you have $40 million to spend at Christies, just for fun. Last Tuesday, they set a record for the auction house when they sold [Read more...]
Art Auction Highlights: Elvis, Marlon, Inkjet, Scribbles and $100 Million Chariot
Christie’s & Sotheby’s (and to a somewhat lesser degree, Phillips) auction houses are offering some 2,300 lots during two weeks of sales of Impressionist, modern, postwar and contemporary art. The result is expected to top the $1.8 billion total from last November's auction but … [Read more...]
Big Bucks 1: Isn’t It Iconic? Triple Bacon Sells for $142 Million
Another world record was hit last night in the auction house art wars. Francis Bacon's triptych, a 1969 study of the artist Lucian Freud, Bacon’s friend and rival, sold for $142 million, the highest … [Read more...]
