Tomorrow, Christie’s London will sell John Constable’s The Lock (1824), which is expected to make between $31 million and $39 million and has a shot at becoming the most expensive work by a British artist ever sold at auction. Read More
Last week’s outrageous auction results have left dealers and savvy collectors giddy, puzzled and mentally exhausted. A number of works soared to stupefying heights, defying the gravity of the euro crisis, the Middle East madness and the unexpected softening of gold prices. How and why, at times like these, can art values continue to peak, and Sotheby’s proudly report that it had the third-highest Contemporary sale results in its entire history? Read More
Watermelon Slices (1950), a work by the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo currently in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, will lead Sotheby’s Latin American Art auction in New York next month, the auction house announced. Read More
