Christie's Latest Blockbuster Edges Closer to the $1B Mark
Posted: Sunday November 30, 2014
Christie’s yet again set a record for all auctions everywhere on Wednesday evening at its Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York, taking in a mind-boggling $852,887,000 for 75 works of art.The tally surpassed the night's historic high pre-sale expectations of $630.6-836 million. (Estimates reflect hammer price and not the added
Christie's post-war art sales break records in first half
Posted: Sunday July 20, 2014
Auction house Christie's reported record-breaking sales of post-war and contemporary art for January-June, helping push total sales to 2.69 billion pounds including a Picasso painting and 51 other works fetching $10 million (5.83 million pounds) or more.Sales rose 12 percent during the first half, compared with the first half of
"If I Live I'll See You Tuesday" at Christie's
Posted: Tuesday May 13, 2014
The contemporary art auction season opened during happy hour on Monday with a loud bang at Christie’s, as the bespoke and trendy, “If I Live I’ll See You Tuesday” sale made $134,630,000. Of the 35 lots offered, all but one sold for a skinny buy-in rate by lot of five
A Pop Art Clearance Sale: Warhol Foundation Partners With Christie's to Sell Off Its Entire Collection
Posted: Sunday September 30, 2012
If you ever wanted to buy an Andy Warhol, now is your chance. This fall, thousands of works by the Pop icon will hit the market when the artist’s foundation deaccessions its entire collection through a combination of sales and donations. The paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, and printed graphic material —