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Art Basel paris
Marion Maneker • July 14, 2024

The Auction House Paris Olympics

Amid the political turnovers in England and France, the shift in emphasis from London to Paris as Europe’s leading art center is gaining momentum.
Marion Maneker • June 25, 2024
Little Britain Sales
Bruce Nauman Double Poke in the Eye II 1985
A preview of the Phillips and Christie’s London sales, including a number of important works that may define—or rewrite—the narrative coalescing around the current art market.
Marion Maneker • May 28, 2024
London Falling
Christie's Hong Kong
News and notes on the art market’s quiet deprecation of London as the big auction houses set up shop in Hong Kong, resize their ambitions in Asia, and attempt to rewrite the auction calendar.
Christies Global Head of Private Sales Adrien Meyer sells the top lot of the evening Andy Warhol's Flowers
Marion Maneker • May 21, 2024
Warhol, Basquiat & A $1.4 Billion Question
Exactly how rich are the rich feeling these days? Data from the May sales suggest some reasons to be cheerful—$35 million for Warhol, $28 million for Leonora Carrington, $22 million for Joan Mitchell—despite a 50 percent drop in auction house sales.
pablo picasso
Marion Maneker • May 19, 2024
A $35 Million Monet, Picasso Weakness & Gigaweek Anxieties
Selling art isn’t easy, and it’s a lot harder in a market that appears to be declining. A look back at a week of hard work as the auction houses tried to sell the art they had well while also cultivating growth for a future market.
claude monet art auction
Marion Maneker • May 7, 2024
A $364m Auction Backstop & The Irrevocable Bid Dance
Amid this unpredictable art market, nearly a quarter of the work coming to auction has already been guaranteed by third-party bidders. Is that a feat of financial engineering or a sign of the state of the confidence game?
Sotheby's Andy Warhol Jean-Michel Basquiat "Untitled"
Marion Maneker • May 5, 2024
The $1.2 Billion Art Fantasy
As gigaweek begins in New York, the big auction houses are fantasizing about more than a billion in sales—down from last year, sure, but also not terrible for a year without a signature artist or collection in the spotlight.
joan mitchell Claude Monet paintings
Marion Maneker • April 23, 2024
Three Women
A stagnant May auction season in New York just got a major jolt via six works by O’Keeffe, Carrington, and Mitchell, with combined low estimates of nearly $60 million.