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26 November 2025

Radiant Tiffany Landscape Window Leads Major Auction of the Studio's Masterpieces

The bucolic, mottled-glass designs of Tiffany Studios have been enjoying something of an auction market renaissance in recent years. Back in June, Christie's caught some of this momentum selling a Gilded Age memorial window that once graced a Rhode Island church for $4.2 million. ... read more (external link)

26 November 2025

Rare Royal Blue Sapphire Necklace Fetches $16.1 M. at Christie's Hong Kong

A rare sapphire necklace, known as the Royal Blue fetched HKD 125,450,000 ($16,131,051) at Christie's Hong Kong on Tuesday. It was one among a number of notable luxury items, including fine wine, hand bags, and jewelry, to hit the block as part of the auction house's Hong Kong Luxury Week Autumn 2025 this week. The event marked its first anniversary of its Asia Pacific headquarters at The Henderson, Hong Kong. ... read more (external link)

26 November 2025

Momentum Builds at Abu Dhabi Art Ahead of the Frieze Takeover, but Sales Still Lag Behind the Buzz

For years, the narrative of Abu Dhabi's cultural rise has been dominated by institution-building, primarily on Saadiyat Island: Louvre Abu Dhabi opened there in 2017, the Natural History Museum followed this year, with the Zayed National Museum soon to come and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi scheduled for 2026. These projects symbolized the city's identity as a government-led museum capital, impressive in scale yet often perceived as detached from the day-to-day life of artists and galleries. That framing is now shifting. ... read more (external link)

26 November 2025

Leonora Carrington's Mystical Masterpiece, Decoded

In September of 1945, an exiled 28-year-old Leonora Carrington painted her masterpiece, Les Distractions de Dagobert, a rapturous and explosive surrealist universe, teeming with mythical women, ancient kings, and ritual fires. ... read more (external link)

19 November 2025

Navigating Emerging Risks in Art Collecting: Insurance Strategies for a Changing Landscape

A conceptual artwork is mistaken for trash. A new fiber work unravels after a cat plays with it. A sculpture crashes to the ground after a housekeeper leans a broom on it. A bird flies off with a diamond earring. Believe it or not, these are all real claims. ... read more (external link)

19 November 2025

Leonard Lauder's Klimt Fetches $236.4 Million at Sotheby's

A storied Gustav Klimt painting sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday night, setting a new auction record for the turn-of-the-20th-century Viennese artist. It is the most expensive work ever sold at Sotheby's and the most expensive Modern artwork ever sold at auction. ... read more (external link)

19 November 2025

Monumental Alexander Calder Mobile Sells for $20.4 Million at Christie's

A giant wooden mobile by Alexander Calder sold for $20.4 million at Christie's 20th-century evening sale in New York on Tuesday night. It had been expected to fetch between $15 million to $20 million, the highest-ever estimate provided for a work by the Philadelphia-born artist. ... read more (external link)

19 November 2025

Consignor Behind Phillips Sale of Amoako Boafo's Portrait of Thelma Golden Is Jesse Williams

The 2017 oil on paper work Red Dress measures 52 3/8 inches by 56 inches and depicts Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of New York's newly reopened Studio Museum in Harlem. It carries an estimate of $150,000 to $200,000. ... read more (external link)

05 November 2025

Star drawing from world's largest private Rembrandt collection could bring $15m at auction

Over the past two decades, the billionaire entrepreneur Thomas S. Kaplan and his wife Daphne Recanati Kaplan have amassed around 220 works of 17th-century Dutch art that they call the Leiden Collection. Now they are ready to part with one of their earliest acquisitions: Rembrandt's life-like drawing Young Lion Resting (around 1638-42). Today (3 November) Sotheby's announced that the work will be offered at an auction during its Old Masters sales in New York on 4 February 2026, with a pre-sale estimate of $15m to $20m. ... read more (external link)

05 November 2025

Newsmakers: Artissima Director Luigi Fassi on Italy Slashing VAT on Art Sales and Why There Are No Excuses Left for Italian Dealers

In July, Italy's government finally bowed to two decades of lobbying from galleries, auction houses, and antique dealers and slashed VAT on art sales from 22 percent to just 5 percent, the lowest in the European Union. This year's edition of Artissima, Italy's largest contemporary art fair, closed its doors on Sunday; there was a huge turnout, and many of the 73 Italian galleries reported an uptick in sales thanks to the tax cut, with prices ranging from $2,200 to nearly $20,000. ... read more (external link)

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