ARTISTS
2022
Guillaume Cerutti, Chief Executive Officer, Christie鈥檚 said: "Our results in the first half of 2022 have been remarkably strong, with many memorable moments like the sales of Warhol鈥檚 Marilyn and of the Bass collection in New York, and of the Givenchy collection in Paris.....
On Tuesday, Christie鈥檚, the largest auction house in the world, reported that it generated $4.1 billion in sales in the first half of 2022.
2019
The Impressionist and Modern art sales in London last week had their usual ups and downs, finally returning 拢300鈥塵illion, which was at the low end of the presale estimate.
2018
On 6 March 2019, Christie鈥檚 Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will be led by David Hockney鈥檚 intimate yet monumentally-scaled 1969 portrait of Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott, from the collection of Barney A. Ebsworth (estimate in excess of 拢30 million)
Having been carefully selected to ensure that nothing intrinsic to the history of Rugby School was sold, the sale Old Masters/New Scholars: Works of Art to Benefit Rugby School on 4 December realised a total of 拢14,794,125 / $18,818,128 / 鈧�16,525,039, far exceeding all...
This is not a print, but an original, hand-painted artwork in gouache and ink. It is by Raoul Dufy, who worked for the Bianchini Fe虂rier silk-weaving house between 1912 and 1928. In the 16 years he was with the firm, he created about 4,000 fabric designs.
Sotheby鈥檚 and Christie鈥檚 say they are dropping the practice of using female-only staff to pose for promotional photographs 鈥� will others now follow? For many years, auction houses have deployed 鈥榓rt girls鈥� in their promotional photographs of artworks.
2017
The extraordinary $450.3m sale of Leonardo da Vinci鈥檚 Salvator Mundi in a New York contemporary art sale says less about the Old Master market and more about the ease with which the super rich will spend colossal sums on a trophy.
A crowd of about 200 people gathered in West London on Wednesday afternoon to witness the sale of a late 20th-century Georgian-style dining table, bringing to an end 42 years of auctions at Christie鈥檚 salesroom in South Kensington.
Pierre-Jean Chalen莽on鈥檚 fascination with Napoleon Bonaparte was immediate and total. As a child, his parents gave him a cartoon book on the Emperor, and Chalen莽on was hooked. Now, at the age of 46, Chalen莽on鈥檚 private stock of Napoleon-related artefacts comprises thousands of...
Sotheby鈥檚 says it has no plans to reschedule, while Phillips has not yet reached a decision
Victorian art might lack sex appeal, but the value is hard to ignore.
Does London still have its mojo as a place to buy and sell blue-chip contemporary art? Uncertainty hangs like smog over the city after Britain鈥檚 decision to leave the European Union.
Christie鈥檚 record-shattering Contemporary sale in London last night has not halted downsizing of their operations in London and Amsterdam. The French-
Facing the challenges of a cooling market in Europe, Christie鈥檚, the international auction house, said Wednesday that it intends to close its secondary South Kensington salesroom here at the end of the year and scale back its operation in Amsterdam.