Patek Philippe Sells For $2.25m
A rare Patek Philippe pocket watch, notable for its many complications, sold today at Christie’s in New York for an impressive $2.25m, well over its $1m-$1.5m estimate. At the time of its original sale...
View ArticleKandinsky Leads Christie’s Impressionist Sale
As expected, Wassily Kandinsky’s “Studie zu Improvisation” led Christie’s Impressionist auction in London yesterday evening. The painting brought in $21.2m, which was well within estimates, although...
View ArticleElizabeth Taylor’s First Wedding Dress At Christie’s
For Elizabeth Taylor’s eight weddings, the choice of nuptial wardrobe must have gotten a little complicated. No so for her first at age 18 to hotel heir Conrad ‘Nicky’ Hilton. For this one, in 1950,...
View ArticlePre-Raphaelite Record In London
Victorian and British Impressionist Art isn’t a huge category, but today in London it was an exceptionally lucrative one. The $22.4m that a buyer paid at Christie’s for a work on paper by Sir Edward...
View ArticleVanderbilt Carpet May Exceed $3m
It doesn’t hurt that the late 17th or early 18th century Indian millefleur “star-lattice” carpet that Christie’s will offer this autumn was formerly owned by American robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt,...
View Article$539,000 Telescope Stars At Christie’s Sale
In the 18th century, centuries before such high-tech devices as the space-traveling Hubbell Telescope, there were nonetheless astronomical devices of considerable precision. One of them was the...
View ArticleFrom Hong Kong To Frieze
Like the fashion world, the auction business moves seasonally, sometimes weekly, around the globe. Last week’s most heated action was in Hong Kong, where over the course of 16 separate sessions...
View ArticleChristie’s Celebrates The Rolex Daytona’s 50th
2013 is a big year for anniversaries. Consider: events as diverse as JFK’s assassination, and the introduction of the iconic Porsche 911 all happened 50 years ago. Christie’s will be celebrating...
View ArticleLackluster Results At Christie’s Krugier Sale
More than $1b—that’s billion with a b—is expected to change hands this week in New York, as the major auction houses stage their marquis art sales. You might not know it, however, from last night’s...
View Article$142.4m Francis Bacon Sets Auction Record
Most, highest, record, and best–these were the words that kept recurring in descriptions of Christie’s history-making sale of Contemporary Art in New York last night. Along the way, Francis Bacon’s...
View ArticleNew Record For Hopper At Christie’s
It’s been a big week in New York for mid-century American figurative art. On the heels of the record $46m that a Norman Rockwell painting achieved at Sotheby’s, a 1934 Edward Hopper canvas, “East Wind...
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