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In the last stretch of auctions staged in London this week, Phillips held an evening sale offering works of modern and contemporary art evening at its U.K. headquarters, bringing in a combined total of £17.5 million ($21 million) with fees. The 33 lots offered spanned works from mid-career artists like Shara Hughes and Caroline Walker to less valuable pieces by historical figures like Cy ...

A Singapore man has won a court injunction to stop the sale of a non-fungible token (NFT) that once belonged to him and was used as collateral against a loan. The NFT in question is from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) series, a collection of 10,000 simian avatars whose floor price has reached 108 Ethereum (ETH), or $368,000, due, in part, to a ...

While this year’s edition of Frieze New York may have drawn crowds to The Shed on Wednesday, Phillips joined the action staging an evening sale dedicated to 20th century and contemporary art that brought in a collective $226 million—marking the largest total in the company’s history. That figure was nearly double last year’s equivalent sale total of $118 million. Of the 36 works offered, ...

Against the backdrop of a busy week for art in New York headlined by the Frieze art fair, a sale of 60 works of Impressionist and modern art at Sotheby’s on Monday evening brought in a total of $408.5 million. Of the entire grouping of 58 works offered, 33 were backed by the auction house with a guarantee or an irrevocable bid. By the ...

Art Sale – Sunday 12th June – Hallam Community Hall Hallam Art Group This sale is an opportunity for the artist to have a second chance to show work and for customers to have an opportunity to enjoy another look and maybe grab a bargain. All work has been created by members of the Hallam art group which meets weekly at the Hallam community ...

Christie’s staged its second evening sale dedicated to art made in the 21st century Tuesday, netting a total of $103 million for the 29 lots. That result fell just short of the high end of the lots’ adjusted pre-sales estimates of between $76 million-$106 million. The total paled in comparison to Monday evening’s sale of 36 works from the collection of the Zurich sibling ...

Following the opening of New York Art Week that brought several fairs back to the city after pandemic-related delays, 36 works from the collection of the Zurich sibling art dealers Thomas and Doris Ammann brought in a total of $318 million at Christie’s New York on Monday evening. The grouping’s total fell squarely within its pre-sale estimate, which valued the collection at between $284 ...

At this year’s Independent Fair in New York, there are the requisite “rediscoveries,” like Birgit Jürgenssen, straight from the Venice Biennale to Galerie Hubert Winter’s booth, and the semi-unexpected oddities, like Renate Druks’s perplexing paintings of cats, now on view in a showcase courtesy of the Ranch. But nothing makes an impression in quite the same way as a pair of outstretched alien hands ...