Both trumpeted improved totals, but Sotheby's came out on top, helped along by a certain Klimt. Auctioneer Helena Newman at the Sotheby's Modern evening auction at the Breuer Building in New York on ...

The $180 million collection of Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis is leading Christie’s November sales. Photograph by Vivian Marie Doering. © 2025 Vivian Marie ...

The third-most-expensive auction item, “No. 31 Yellow Stripe,” painted by Mark Rothko, was sold at Christie’s. The ...

Camille de Foresta, Christie’s Vice-President and auctioneer of the 20/21th CENTURY ART Day Sale on October 19 in Paris. © Christie’s Images Limited 2024, Photo ...

For two centuries, the world’s chief auction houses—Sotheby’s and Christie’s—have shined a spotlight on everything from pricey vases to Van Goghs. Now, it’s the houses’ own strategies that are getting ...

Are these luxury brand partnerships just sophisticated marketing strategies, or can they genuinely enrich the art fair ...

All eyes are on the big auction season in New York. With at least $1.67 billion of art on offer at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips, the estimates are up 54 percent from the same cycle a year ago. ...

According to the LA Times, Chuck Close, Laddie John Dill and the estate of sculptor Robert Graham are suing the world’s largest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, for royalties they say they ...

Sotheby’s and Christie’s are raising the premiums they charge to buyers, the auction houses said in e-mail statements. As of Sunday, buyers at Sotheby’s auctions will have to pay 25% on the first ...

Jewelry auctions are in full swing for the holiday, and, in the spirit of the season, red-toned stones topped the lots for both Sotheby's and Christie's. Rubies, spinels, and Alexandrites raked in ...

Dan Loeb is wrestling Sotheby’s over a new art paradigm. The Third Point founder reckons, essentially, that the listed auctioneer should be more like privately held arch-rival Christie’s. The $3.5 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Auctioneers Christie's staked out its share of a buoyant art market on Wednesday with a barrage of surrealist works, a day after fierce rival Sotheby's set a London auction sale ...