London is known for gin and tonic, Bacon and Freud, Gilbert and George, and Damien and Tracey. When I moved to the UK in 2004, London also boasted a burgeoning auction market, and was said to be on ...
Auction houses Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams have canceled sales of Russian art in London in June, part of the art market’s response to Western sanctions on Russia as punishment for its invasion ...
(Bloomberg) -- It hasn’t exactly been an easy year for the world’s two biggest auction houses as their major sales contracted, clients got spooked by falling oil prices and scores of specialists ...
Our columnist Kenny Schachter delves into the backroom shenanigans of London's auctions, the Sotheby's sale, and summer's other big art deals. Money was the medium, as in Damien’s diamonds; now it’s ...
The biggest evening sales of modern and contemporary artwork in London this week delivered solid if unspectacular results with the exception of Sotheby’s sale of Gustav Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady ...
One of London’s oldest festive trading traditions returns this Christmas Eve, as the gates at Smithfield Market’s Grade II ...
The statue's auction is scheduled for next month. Cairo -- Egyptian authorities are demanding that the London arm of auction house Christie's halt an auction of a stone sculpture of King Tutankhamun ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The high-end art market kicked off 2014 with a bang when sales at Christie's impressionist, modern and surrealist art auction set a new record high for any London sale on Tuesday ...