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Sotheby's London to Sell Lewis Collection Valued at Over £200 Million market-auction
Sotheby's London will auction the Lewis Collection on June 24-25, 2026, with a pre-sale exhibition from June 10-23. Assembled by Joe Lewis and his daughter Vivienne Lewis, the…
Elizabeth Taylor's Fendi Baguette Bag Sells for Record $21,590 at Christie's market-auction
At Christie's, a floral-adorned Fendi Baguette Bag, previously owned by Elizabeth Taylor, fetched $21,590, establishing a new auction record for this style. The initial estimate…
AI Identifies Thrift-Store Painting as Lost Work by Scottish Colorist FCB Cadell market-auction
A thrift-store painting bought for under $100 in the 1960s has been identified as a work by Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, a leading Scottish Colorist. Helene Plotkin, then a…
Diane Keaton's nail clippers for $960: the boom in celebrity estate auctions market-auction
The market for deceased celebrities' personal items, dubbed 'deleb,' has exploded since Marilyn Monroe's 1999 estate sale. Bonhams, in collaboration with The Fine Art Group, is…
Diane Keaton Estate Sale Fetches $4.2 Million, Annie Hall Script Sells for 98x Estimate market-auction
Diane Keaton's personal estate was auctioned by Bonhams, spanning New York, Los Angeles, and online, with a total closing price of $4.2 million. This event achieved a record for…
Wannenes seeks buyer for former church housing Parmiggiani installation market-auction
Wannenes Properties, the real estate arm of the auction house, is seeking a buyer for the former Church of San Marcellino in Parma, which houses Claudio Parmiggiani's installation…
Pace Gallery Cuts Staff and Artists, Raising Questions About Mega-Dealer Model market-auction
Pace Gallery, one of the world's top mega-dealers, has suddenly laid off staff and dropped half of its artists, according to an ARTnews report. The move raises concerns about the…
Louis Vuitton and UNICEF Mark Decade of Partnership with Sotheby's Auction market-auction
Louis Vuitton and UNICEF are celebrating ten years of collaboration with a series of luxury items auctioned during Sotheby's Luxury Week. The centerpiece is the Louis Vuitton Time…
AI Identifies Lost F.C.B. Cadell Painting Bought for Under $100 market-auction
A painting bought for under $100 at a White Plains, New York thrift store in the 1960s has been identified as a work by Scottish Colorist F.C.B. Cadell, thanks to Google's AI…
T. rex leather bag to auction in Paris for over $500,000 market-auction
A handbag made from Tyrannosaurus rex cells will be auctioned on Thursday by Paris auction house Giquello, with an estimate exceeding US$500,000. The material was created from…
Compact Camera Sales Surge Drives Photo Industry Growth in 2026 market-auction
CIPA's April 2026 data reveals a booming compact camera market, with built-in lens camera shipments outpacing 2025 by 136% to 148% in the first four months. Total digital camera…
Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer Sells for $236M at Sotheby's market-auction
On November 18, 2025, Sotheby's New York auctioned Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer' from the collection of Leonard Lauder for $236 million, making it the most…
Rare first edition of Wuthering Heights to auction at Christie's for up to £600,000 market-auction
A rare cloth-bound first edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, one of only a handful of surviving copies in original binding, will be auctioned at Christie's on 30 June…
Art Basel strives to maintain its prestige amid market shifts market-auction
Art Basel is making concerted efforts to uphold its prestige as a leading international fair for modern and contemporary art. The article, published in Le Journal des Arts on June…
Ulrike Christina Goetz: Life Outside Major Auction Houses market-auction
After 27 years at Sotheby's Paris, where she founded the sculpture and objets d'art department in 1997, Ulrike Christina Goetz left in 2024 and established her own advisory firm,…
Ulrike Christina Goetz on Life Beyond Major Auction Houses market-auction
Ulrike Christina Goetz, a leading figure in sculpture and ancient objets d'art at Sotheby's for nearly thirty years, discusses the transformations in the art market and her recent…
Galerie Maeght Sanctioned for Anti-Money Laundering Failures market-auction
The French National Sanctions Commission (CNS) has imposed a heavy fine on Galerie Maeght for eight breaches of anti-money laundering obligations, marking a significant escalation…
Pace Gallery downsizes amid mega-gallery debate market-auction
Pace Gallery president Marc Glimcher is reducing both staff and artist roster to improve artist representation. The move sparks discussion on the sustainability of mega-galleries.…
Léon Spilliaert Gains International Recognition market-auction
Léon Spilliaert, the Ostend-born artist known for his tormented self-portraits and high-contrast landscapes, has been steadily gaining international renown over the past three…
Banksy’s Soup Can: Warhol’s Pop Art Rebranded with Tesco Value market-auction
In 2005, Banksy released Soup Can, a screen print through Pictures on Walls, which substitutes Tesco Value branding for Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup, offering a commentary…
AI Reveals $1.3M Treasure in Thrift Store Painting market-auction
A painting bought for under $100 at a US charity shop in the 1960s has sold for nearly £190,000 ($1.3 million) at auction in Scotland. The owner, art teacher Helene Plotkin,…
AI Helps ID Thrift Store Painting as $254K Cadell market-auction
A painting bought for under $100 at a thrift store in White Plains, N.Y., sixty years ago by Helene Plotkin has sold at auction for 189,200 pounds (approximately $254,000) after…
World Cup trophy's gold value surges 157% since 2022 market-auction
The FIFA World Cup trophy, containing 4.93 kg of pure gold, has seen its bullion value rise 157% since the 2022 tournament, now worth approximately US$713,000. This increase is…
Colasanti Casa d’Aste to auction 417 lots of 20th-century Italian design market-auction
Colasanti Casa d’Aste will hold a sale of Design and Decorative Arts of the 1900s in Rome on June 18, featuring 417 lots of Italian-made furniture and objects. Highlights include…
Pace Gallery Drops 50+ Artists, Cuts Staff by 20% in Major Restructuring market-auction
Pace Gallery is undergoing significant changes, letting go of more than 50 artists from its current roster of 135 and reducing its workforce by 20%. CEO Marc Glimcher has pointed…
Bonhams Paris sale tops €5.2M led by Frank Stella from Cluzel Collection market-auction
On June 4, 2026, Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr held a Post-War and Contemporary Art auction in Paris, generating more than €5.2 million. The highlight was Frank Stella's 1967…
Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette's chairs estimated up to €500,000 at Christie's market-auction
A pair of neoclassical armchairs commissioned for the Château de Fontainebleau in 1786, stamped by ébéniste Georges Jacob, will be auctioned by Christie's in Paris as part of the…
African Contemporary Art Surges in German Market market-auction
Contemporary African art has gained a firm foothold in German collections, auctions, and museums over the past two decades. The shift began with Documenta 11 in 2002, curated by…
Capitolium Art Auction Features 19th-Century Works by Troubetzkoy, Hesse, Rebell, Santoro market-auction
Capitolium Art is holding an auction of 19th-century paintings and sculptures on June 10, 2026, at Palazzo Cigola Fenaroli Valotti in Brescia. The sale includes a bronze sculpture…
Roosevelt Assassination Attempt Speech Sheet Sold for $150,000 market-auction
A recently uncovered page from the speech that took a bullet during Theodore Roosevelt's assassination attempt in 1912 has been sold by the Raab Collection for $150,000. On…
Cambi Casa d’Aste presents Fine Design sale with Italian design icons market-auction
Cambi Casa d’Aste will hold its Fine Design auction on June 16 at its Milan headquarters in Via San Marco 22, featuring 118 lots of furniture, lighting, and designer objects from…
India Emerges as Asia's Art Market Star Amid Regional Splintering market-auction
In 2025, the fine art auction sector in Asia recorded sales of $2.2 billion, a significant decrease from the $5.4 billion peak achieved in 2021, while the annual lot volume…
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Transfers $226M in BTC to Coinbase Prime market-auction
On June 8, 2026, wallets associated with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) transferred 3,580 BTC, equivalent to approximately $226.8 million, to Coinbase Prime. This…
U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETFs Near $100B AUM but Face Volatile 2026 Flows market-auction
Spot Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. have exceeded $100 billion in total assets, representing almost 7% of Bitcoin's total supply of 21 million. Since January 2024, there have been net…
Templon Gallery Closes Chelsea Outpost After Rent Hike market-auction
Templon Gallery has shut down its Chelsea location in New York, joining other international dealers reevaluating their operations in the city due to a market decline. Established…
Pharrell's Joopiter Auction Highlights Black Art Innovators market-auction
Pharrell Williams' digital auction platform Joopiter has launched a new sale titled 'The Creatives,' centering works by Black artists shaping contemporary art. The auction…
Stream Family Fabergé Collection Leads Christie’s Luxury Week market-auction
Christie’s Luxury Week in New York features the Stream Family Collection, including five Fabergé jeweled floral sculptures made from nephrite, rock crystal, gold, enamel, and…
Bosch Follower's 'Hell' Sells for $537,600 at Sotheby's market-auction
A 16th-century oil-on-panel painting titled 'Hell,' attributed to a follower of Hieronymus Bosch, sold for $537,600 at Sotheby's New York on June 2, 2026, far exceeding its…
Sotheby's Failed $50M Private Auction of Jackson Pollock Painting market-auction
Sotheby's attempted to quietly sell Jackson Pollock's "Number 19, 1951" for $50 million in a private auction at its Breuer Building headquarters on June 2, but the sale fell…
Bybit Launches IPO Express with Tokenized SpaceX IPO Access market-auction
On June 7, 2026, Bybit, a Dubai-based crypto exchange, launched IPO Express, enabling retail investors worldwide to subscribe to tokenized shares for IPOs at their initial price,…

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