Sotheby's May contemporary art sale set 14 artist records, including a massive new high for Kerry James Marshall. Marshall now definitively joins the first order of contemporary art market stars.

Analysis Early Lucian Freud Painting Leads Sotheby’s $100 Million Contemporary Art Evening Sale. It is the best of several paintings by Freud to be offered this week.

At the price levels contemporary art is now reaching—remember, the report is about $1m+ works—this flight to safety sees vendors thinking about selling contemporary to buy more validated works.

Though the house’s, and the world’s, highest previous auction total, from November 2013, was $691.6 million, tonight’s was just at the top of a pre-sale estimate of $519.1 million to $711.6 ...

Edgy Video Promotes Christie's Contemporary Art Sale In the video, a skateboarder rides through Christie's warehouse and galleries.

The sale price surpassed predictions that priced the paintings between $1,000 and $1,500. “We had no idea what these things were worth,” said Howard Rutkowski, director of modern and ...

Hughes’ Inside Outside, 2018, began the sale by achieving US$1.5 million, with fees, with the hammer price of US$1.2 million more than three times a high estimate of US$350,000.

Then, on October 18, 1973, in front of a slew of television cameras and a packed salesroom at the auction house Sotheby Parke Bernet, they put 50 works from their collection up for sale ...