Art & Collectibles 10 Records Anchor Sotheby’s $183 Million Contemporary Art Sale in NYC The big-ticket item of the night was a massive bronze cast of Louise Bourgeois’s Spider, which hammered at $30 million. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles A $53 Million Gustav Klimt Painting Leads Sotheby’s $427 Million Evening Sales in New York The Austrian painter’s “Insel im Attersee” sold to a private Japanese collector after a seven-minute bidding war. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles This 1983 Basquiat Painting Just Sold for $67 Million at Christie’s The auctioneer raked in over $98 million from Monday night’s 27-lot auction in New York. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles Valentino’s Basquiat Painting Expected to Fetch Over $45 Million at Auction The painting, titled El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile), will land on the Christie’s auction block in May. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles This Illegally Sold Gauguin Could Fetch Over $15 Million at Auction Next Month The sale will also include two pieces by Renoir and another by Cézanne. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles Music Exec Mo Ostin’s $120 Million Art Collection Heads to Auction With Works by Basquiat and Magritte The group of more than 30 works will be offered at Sotheby’s New York in two sales this May. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles A Lucian Freud Painting of His Daughter Could Fetch up to $24 Million at Auction The portrait, titled Ib Reading, from 1997 will be offered at Sotheby’s London next week. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles Kim Kardashian Just Bought Princess Diana’s Famous Amethyst Cross Necklace The reality star purchased the hand-sized 1920s accessory at a Sotheby’s London auction for $200,000. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles A French City Is Asking Madonna if It Can Borrow a Long-Lost 19th Century Painting From Her Collection Brigitte Fouré, the mayor of Amiens, made a video recording to plead her case with the Queen of Pop. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
Art & Collectibles Phillips Notched a Record $1.3 Billion in Global Sales This Year The number marks a mere 8 percent increase over last year’s result. By Angelica Villa for ARTNews
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ArtNews National Gallery of Australia Postpones Major Exhibition of Aboriginal Art amid Ongoing Investigation of Provenance