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Okada Museum's Founder Sells 125 Works at Sotheby's

11/24/2025

A total of 125 major works from Japan’s Okada Museum of Art hit the auction block at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on Saturday, achieving white-glove status (meaning all works sold). The sale netted the equivalent of $88 million (plus fees) and …

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Frida Kahlo Painting Commands $54.7 Million at Sotheby’s, Shattering Auction Records

11/22/2025

Frida Kahlo Painting Commands $54.7 Million at Sotheby’s, Shattering Auction Records Frida Kahlo’s 1940 paintingEl sueño (La cama)sold for $54.7 million including fees atSotheby’sExquisite Corpus sale, held the evening of November 20 in New York. The amount is the highest …

Метки : фрида калоаукционискусстворекордкартиныпродажа.

Anonymous Buyer Pays $1 M. for Secret Code to Sculpture at C.I.A.

11/22/2025

In one of the more head-scratching moments of an auction season full of twists and turns, an anonymous buyer won the elusive code to crack the final part of a puzzling sculpture created by artist Jim Sanborn for the Central …

Метки : скульптураджим санборнкодkryptosаукционтайна

Sotheby's will host a non-selling art show and a several luxury sales

11/21/2025

When Sotheby’s revealed plans for Abu Dhabi Collectors’ Week in August, the house’s first series of luxury marquee sales in the emirate, it came as no surprise. Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s have been increasingly pivoting to the luxury market, and …

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Frida Kahlo Painting Sets a Record at Sotheby's, Selling for $54.7 M.

11/21/2025

Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait El sueño (La cama) sold for $54.7 million on November 20. The painting was part of a Sotheby’s sale of Surrealist art in New York. Because the painting had a pre-sale estimate of $40 million to …

Метки : искусствофрида калоаукционсюрреализмрекордывыставки

Believe It or Not! Ripley’s Ponies Up $12 Million for Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet

11/21/2025

Believe It or Not! Ripley’s Ponies Up $12 Million for Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Entertainment company Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, known for its oddity-themed attractions, on November 19 was revealed to be the lone bidder for and the buyer …

Метки : искусствоаукционmaurizio cattelanripley’sзолотой унитазсовременное искусство

Bonhams Moves US Headquarters to New York's Steinway Hall

11/20/2025

Bonhams will relocate its US headquarters to 111 West 57th Street this February, establishing a new flagship inside the landmarked Steinway Hall as the 230-year-old auction house accelerates its expansion in one of the world’s largest art markets. The move …

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Gustav Klimt Portrait Fetches Record $236 Million at Sotheby’s

11/20/2025

Gustav Klimt Portrait Fetches Record $236 Million at Sotheby’s A full-length portrait by Austrian painterGustav Klimtthat had been estimated to sell for $150 million hammered for $236.4 million with fees at auction on November 18. The sale, atSotheby’snew headquarters at …

Метки : искусствоаукционгустав климтпортретрекордколлекционирование

Christie’s Paris Suspends Its Sale of the First Calculating Machine

11/20/2025

Christie’s suspended its sale of the first calculating machine after an export ban kept it from leaving France, according to the South China Morning Post. One of only nine surviving examples of calculators built by 17th-century French mathematician and inventor …

Метки : искусствоаукционнациональное достояниеблез паскалькалькуляторфранция

Ripley’s Buys Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet for $12.1 M.

11/20/2025

The new owner of Maurizio Cattelan’s “America” (2016)—the 18-karat gold, fully functioning toilet that sold for $12.1 million on Tuesday night—is Ripley’s Believe It or Not! The museum announced itself as the buyer on Instagram. Previously, Sotheby’s only identified the …

Метки : искусствоаукционрипликаттелскульптуратуалет

Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Sells for $12.1 M. at Sotheby’s

11/19/2025

The hopes for one of the past decade’s most controversial artworks achieving a record price circled on the drain at Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening. Maurizio Cattelan’s 18-karat gold toilet, owned by Steve Cohen, fetched just $12.1 million (inclusive of fees) …

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Sotheby’s Double-Header Sale Totals $706 M., Including Second-Priciest Work Ever Sold

11/19/2025

In a nearly three-hour marathon double sale, the first in its new Breuer Building digs, Sotheby’s on Tuesday evening sold Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Elisabeth Lederer for $236.4 million, the second highest price ever paid for an artwork at auction—and …

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Klimt's Elisabeth Lederer Portrait Sells for $236.4 M. at Sotheby's

11/19/2025

A watershed moment for the November auctions arrived tonight at Sotheby’s, where Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) sold for $236.4 million after 20 minutes of bidding, eclipsing the artist’s previous auction record and instantly becoming one of the …

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Klimt’s Blumenwiese Achieves $86 M. at Sotheby’s

11/19/2025

Gustav Klimt’s Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)—a jewel-like 1908 landscape painted during one of the artist’s summer retreats to Austria’s Lake Attersee—sold for $86 million (inclusive of fees) tonight at Sotheby’s, landing a few million above its estimate of north of $80 …

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