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    Cold Wind Blows in Global Auction Market: Big 3 Auction Houses Down 18% in Early 2023

    Art auction sales in New York and London in the first half of this year decreased by more than 20% compared to the first half of last year. This is in line with a 18.2% drop in auction sales in the first half of the year for Christie's, Sotheby's and…

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    Around the Auction World: October 2022

    What were the top stories in the auction industry this month? Jaws VHS 1983 - IGS Box 9 MINT and Seal 9 MINT, Wraparound MCA HV Watermarks, MCA Home Video. Image courtesy of Heritage Auctions. Auction Highlights This month, we explored some of the spookiest items and events available from…

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    Sotheby’s to Offer Figure Crouching Painting and Rare Ephemera by British Painter Francis Bacon

    As a renowned British artist of the 20th century, Francis Bacon needs no introduction. His portfolio of raw and dramatic artworks, rendered in dark palettes, are iconic and continue to both fascinate and baffle the art community today. Contorted figures in isolated settings reflect feelings of pain, despair, pleasure, and…

    Francis Bacon, Figure Crouching, 1949. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s.

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    Artist to Know: Toko Shinoda

    Modern Lithograph Available in Contemporary Japanese Art Sale Throughout the 20th century, Japanese artist Toko Shinoda built her own Modernist tradition. Her career lasted over seven decades, taking her from the shores of Japan to the burgeoning artist communities of New York. Shinoda was closely associated with Abstract Expressionism. However,…

    Artist to Know Toko Shinoda1

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    Preliminary Auction House Results for 2020 Show Industry's Resilience

    Christie’s “relay” auction, held on July 10th, 2020, simultaneously in Hong Kong, Paris, London, and New York. Photo from Christie’s. Auction houses spent much of 2020 adapting to global lockdowns, like most industries. There were concerns in the spring about the dramatic shift towards online bidding and the prospect of…

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    Christie's announces London Editions Prints & Multiples Online Sales

    Banksy, Morons (Sepia), 2007. Estimate: £20,000-30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2020. LONDON.- London Editions presents three online-only sales dedicated to prints, multiples and editions tracing artistic production from modern to contemporary artists, all of which are open for bidding from 10 September 2020. Prints & Multiples: Modern to Pop (10-22 September…

    Christies announces London Editions Prints & Multiples Online Sales

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    5 Fine Art Pieces Hitting the Auction Block This Month

    Works by Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, and Joan Mitchell to go under the hammer Fine art pieces presented by Christie's, Sotheby's, and Heritage Auctions are among the notable lots crossing the auction block in the last half of June. Learn more about these pieces, their artists. 1. Triptych Inspired by…

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    £1.2 Million Irish & International Art To Be Sold On 9 March

    On Monday 9 March 2020 two hundred lots of Irish & International art will be offered for auction at the RDS Dublin. Viewing takes place at the RDS, Saturday to Monday 7-9 March from 10am to 6pm daily. DUBLIN.- When the hammer fell at €1.4 millon for Yeats’ painting Reverie (Ernie…

    On Monday 9 March 2020 two hundred lots of Irish & International art will be offered for auction at the RDS Dublin. Viewing takes place at the RDS, Saturday to Monday 7-9 March from 10am to 6pm daily.