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• Cambi Casa d’Aste auctions collections from historic Italian residences market-auction

  Cambi Casa d’Aste will hold 'Dimore Italiane,' an auction dedicated to collections from prestigious Italian historic residences, on June 10 at Castello Mackenzie in Genoa. The…

• Finarte's June 9 Auction Features Guttuso, Fontana, Capogrossi and Brandimarte Collection market-auction

  Finarte will hold a Modern and Contemporary Art auction on Tuesday, June 9, in Milan, featuring works spanning the Italian 20th century from Informale to conceptual research of…

• Lucian Freud's Dozing Nude Could Fetch $47M at Sotheby's market-auction

  Lucian Freud's painting 'Sleeping by the Lion Carpet' (1995–96), depicting model Sue Tilley, is expected to sell for up to $47 million at Sotheby's in London this June. The work…

• San Francisco Homeowners Accept Anthropic Stock Instead of Cash market-auction

  In San Francisco's overheated real estate market, where median house prices exceed $2 million, some sellers are now listing properties for Anthropic or OpenAI shares instead of…

• Barbara Gladstone Estate Sale, CFDA/Vogue Finalists, Gehry Posthumous Show market-auction

  On June 9, Sotheby's will hold an auction featuring 140 items from the estate of the late gallerist Barbara Gladstone, with a projected total of $6.9–10 million. Among the pieces…

• JW Anderson rebrands into homeware and furniture amid luxury market shifts market-auction

  JW Anderson has undergone a major rebrand in 2025, expanding into homeware and furniture categories to build a world customers can buy into from multiple touchpoints. CEO Jenny…

• Kalshi launches art auction prediction market market-auction

  Prediction platform Kalshi has launched a new market allowing users to bet on art auction outcomes, including the sale of Gustav Klimt's 'Portrait of Fräulein Lieser' at the im…

• Romanov Crown Jewels Resurface at Sotheby's After Century in Hiding market-auction

  Sotheby’s will auction Russian imperial jewels once owned by Catherine the Great and Nicholas II, part of a collection that vanished after the Soviet sale of 1927. The items debut…

• Lucian Freud's 'Sleeping by the Lion Carpet' Estimated at $47M at Sotheby's market-auction

  Lucian Freud's monumental nude painting 'Sleeping by the Lion Carpet' (1995–96) is expected to fetch up to £35 million (~$47 million) at Sotheby's London on June 24. The work…

• Gerard Dillon Painting Sells for €1.4 Million, Crushing Estimate by 450% market-auction

  A painting by Irish artist Gerard Dillon, Tea Party (1955), sold for €1.4 million ($1.6 million) at Adam's Auctioneers in Dublin on May 27, far exceeding its presale estimate of…

• Joan Miró's 'Peinture' from Monaco to Be Auctioned in Munich market-auction

  Munich auction house Karl & Faber will auction Joan Miró's 1936 painting 'Peinture' on June 11, 2025, as part of its 'Modern Art, Post War & Contemporary Art' sale. Estimated at…

• Chinese Firm HSG Leads Bid for Leica Camera Stake market-auction

  HongShan Capital Group (HSG), a private equity firm from China, is positioned as a frontrunner in the bid to acquire Blackstone Inc.'s 45% share in Leica Camera AG, with the…

• Binance Launches Trading for 7,000 U.S. Stocks and ETFs, Plans Tokenized bStocks Rollout market-auction

  On June 1, 2026, Binance launched trading in over 7,000 U.S. stocks and ETFs for eligible non-U.S. users, allowing fractional share purchases from around $5 and 24/5 trading using…

• Bertolami Fine Art Auction: Hats of the General Who Defied Mussolini market-auction

  Bertolami Fine Art will auction 182 lots of militaria and chivalric orders on June 5, 2025, at 3:00 PM at Palazzo Caetani Lovatelli in Rome, featuring two exceptional collections:…

• Steve McQueen's Heuer Monaco from 'Le Mans' Heads to Auction market-auction

  A vintage Heuer Monaco worn by Steve McQueen during the filming of the 1971 film 'Le Mans' will be auctioned at Sotheby's Important Watches Auction in New York on June 15. The…

• Banksy's Girl with Balloon Gold AP Sells for £1.1 Million at Sotheby's market-auction

  In March 2021, a unique Artist's Proof of Banksy's gold version of Girl with Balloon fetched £1,104,000 at Sotheby's London, significantly surpassing its estimated range of…

• Blue-chip auction boom contrasts with sluggish market for young artists market-auction

  The art market is experiencing a split: while blue-chip modern and classic contemporary pieces are achieving unprecedented prices, interest in emerging artists has declined.…

• BlackRock's IBIT Sees $1.26 Billion Block Sale in One of Bitcoin ETF Market's Largest Single Transactions market-auction

  On May 26, 2026, a substantial block sale involving 29.21 million shares of BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) was completed for $1.26 billion, representing one of the most…

• AGO acquires portrait of Black model Pierre Louis Alexandre, plus Kirchner print and Jennie C. Jones audio work. market-auction

  The Art Gallery of Ontario has recently added a portrait of Pierre Louis Alexandre, created by Alma Holsteinson around 1879-80. Alexandre, who was a prominent Black model in the…

• Cambi Casa d’Aste achieves €1.45M in numismatic sale with 94% sell-through rate market-auction

  From May 12 to 14, Cambi Casa d’Aste, in partnership with Crippa Numismatica, conducted a numismatic auction in Milan, showcasing 1,700 items and achieving total hammer prices…

• CFTC Approves Kalshi’s BTCPERP, First Regulated U.S. Bitcoin Perpetual market-auction

  On May 29, the CFTC gave the green light to KalshiEX, LLC to roll out BTCPERP, marking it as the first bitcoin perpetual futures contract available on a regulated derivatives…

• Christie's $1.1B Sale Masks Market Weakness market-auction

  Christie's evening sale of the S.I. Newhouse collection achieved $181.2 million for a Jackson Pollock and $107.6 million for a Brancusi, but roughly 30% of lots hammered below low…

• Universal Music Group Rejects Bill Ackman's $64.3bn Takeover Bid market-auction

  Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company behind Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Kendrick Lamar, has rejected a $64.3bn takeover offer from billionaire Bill…

• Phillips New York Design Sale Led by Private Collections of Influential Women market-auction

  Phillips will hold its New York Design Sale on June 12 at 2:00 pm, featuring twentieth-century and contemporary design from notable private collections. The auction is anchored by…

• Hyperliquid's SpaceX Pre-IPO Contract Flash Crashes 45%, Liquidating $1.5M market-auction

  On Thursday, a synthetic perpetual contract on Hyperliquid that reflects SpaceX's private market valuation experienced a drastic decline of nearly 45% within 30 minutes, leading…

• Lucian Freud Portrait of Sue Tilley Heads to Sotheby's Auction market-auction

  A portrait of British artist Sue Tilley by Lucian Freud, titled 'Sleeping by the Lion Carpet', is set to debut at auction at Sotheby's with an estimate of £25-35 million. The…

• Art Basel Paris 2026 Names 206 Exhibitors; Zaha Hadid Bridge Completed; Medieval Manuscript at Christie's market-auction

  Art Basel Paris is set to feature 206 exhibitors for its upcoming 2026 edition, taking place at the Grand Palais from October 23 to 25, with preview days on October 21 and 22, and…

• Pre-Raphaelite Painting Expected to Fetch $1.3 Million at Christie's market-auction

  John Melhuish Strudwick's painting 'Thy Music' is anticipated to sell for between £700,000 and £1 million ($950,000–$1.3 million) at Christie's in London. This artwork, part of…

• Piguet to Auction Rare Manolo Millares Painting in Geneva market-auction

  On June 10 in Geneva, auction house Piguet will present Manolo Millares's 1960 artwork Cuadro (I), with an estimated value between €109,600 and €165,000 (CHF 100,000–150,000).…

• May Auctions Reveal Art Underperforms as Investment market-auction

  In May, New York's auction season amassed $2.5 billion, yet several premier lots did not match the performance of index funds. Christie's auctioned Jackson Pollock's Number 7A…

• Axcel Seeks to Sell Capture One via Auction market-auction

  Axcel, the Nordic private equity firm that acquired Capture One in 2019, is now auctioning off the photography software company, with Stifel managing the process. Axcel had bought…

• Artcurial's Asian Art Auction Features 350+ Chinese Pieces market-auction

  On June 9, 2026, Artcurial will conduct an Asian Art Auction at the Hôtel Marcel Dassault in Paris, following a public exhibition on June 6. The auction features more than 350…

• Sotheby's Milano Spring Sale Hits €11M, Led by Fontana and Morandi market-auction

  Sotheby's Milan auction of modern and contemporary art on May 27, 2026, achieved €11 million, exceeding pre-sale estimates of €6.96-9.887 million. The sale, held live at Palazzo…

• Macdonald Viola of 1719 Bought for Over $23 Million for Berlin Philharmonic Soloist market-auction

  The Macdonald viola, a Stradivarius instrument from 1719, has been purchased for more than $23 million by a foundation for the solo violist of the Berlin Philharmonic. The sale,…

• Air de Paris Gallery Closes After 36 Years market-auction

  Air de Paris, a gallery founded in Nice in 1990 by Florence Bonnefous and Édouard Merino, has announced its closure following a judicial liquidation procedure pronounced on May 4…

• New York auction sales double to $2.5B, driven by trophy collections and guarantees market-auction

  In May 2026, art sales for Impressionist, Modern, and Contemporary pieces in New York soared to $2.5 billion, nearly doubling the $1.26 billion recorded in May 2025. This…

• Thierry de Maigret: The Inventory Man market-auction

  Thierry de Maigret leads one of the most active auction houses in Paris, building his sales in close proximity to families. He is known for his expertise in inventories, a niche…

• EU sues Spain over 21% VAT on art market-auction

  The European Commission has initiated legal proceedings against Spain before the Court of Justice of the European Union, arguing that Spain's 21% VAT rate on works of art violates…

• Il Ponte auction: Josef Albers leads, Leonor Fini sets record market-auction

  Il Ponte's Modern and Contemporary Art auction on May 26-28, 2026, achieved over €4.7 million in sales, with 90% of lots sold and an average appreciation of 198%. The top lot was…

• Discarded Louis Wain paintings fetch £16,000 at auction market-auction

  A couple in Pembrokeshire discovered two paintings by Louis Wain in a skip while walking their dog. They initially intended them as a gift for their daughter-in-law, who later…