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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 …

Метки : bonhamssteinway hallаукционискусствокультурные инициативынью-йорк

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) …

Метки : искусствоаукционвыставкакателланзолоторекорд

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 …

Метки : климтаукционискусствоsotheby'sпродажирекорды

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 …

Метки : климентаукционискусстворекордsotheby'sпродажи

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 …

Метки : искусствоаукционгустав климтпейзажпроизведение искусстваколлекция

Klimt’s Waldabhang in Unterach Sells for $70.8 M.

11/19/2025

Gustav Klimt’s Waldabhang in Unterach am Attersee, which is believed to be the last surviving landscape the artist painted, realized $70.8 million (inclusive of fees) at Sotheby’s Tuesday night, just meeting expectations in excess of $70 million. The work, which …

Метки : густав климтискусствоаукционsotheby'sкартиныживопись

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) …

Метки : искусствоаукционмаурицио каттеласовременное искусствоуникальные произведениярекорды

Bonhams Sells Three Bob Ross Paintings for $600,000

11/14/2025

On Tuesday, the first three (of 30 total) original canvases by America television icon Bob Ross hit the auction block at Bonhams. The paintings sold for a total of $600,000. The proceeds from this and future sales of Ross’s “happy …

Метки : боб россаукционискусствотелевидениепожертвованиекартины

Metallica Guitarist Sells Painting of Conan the Barbarian—With a $10 M. Asking Price

11/14/2025

Bidding starts at $10 million for a painting of Conan the Barbarian that Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett bought from artist Frank Frazetta for $1 million in 2009. The work, titled Conan the Berserker (1967), served as cover art for a …

Метки : искусствоаукционколлекциякирк хэмметфрэнк фразеттаконан

Heritage Auctions Is Selling the Witch Hat from ‘The Wizard of Oz’

11/13/2025

The hat worn by Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West onscreen in the original Wizard of Oz film, is being sold by Heritage Auctions next month. The minimum bid is $100,000. The pointy black hat was …

Метки : искусствоаукционволшебник страны озмаргарет гамильтонколлекцииистория.