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While Some Traditional Fairs Scale Back, the Other Art Fair Keeps Growing

Director Nicole Garton says the fair, which connects artists directly to buyers without dealers, saw a 40 percent increase in sales at its previous Los Angeles edition: "At the eme...

In Paris, Sotheby’s Is Betting on Intimacy to Win Over Private Buyers

Chez Sotheby’s installs roughly $150 million worth of artwork by Picasso, Matisse, Warhol, Richter and others in a salon-style setting with its own restaurant and bar. Six pieces f...

Amid Protests and an Early Closure Announcement, Art Basel Paris Finds Buyers for Its Safest Bets

The fair announced that it will conclude its 2026 edition on Friday evening in response to protests planned in the French capital for Saturday. Yet despite the unrest in the street...

At Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Rediscoveries Are Giving the Market New Momentum

A £5 million Jan Brueghel the Elder led opening-day sales, while overlooked modernists from Morocco, Colombia and Antigua drew collector and institutional attention. In the contemp...

Zvavahera’s record sale signals rise of local women

Ashley Moyo SENIOR ENTERTAINMENT WRITER LOCAL painter Portia Zvavahera has set a new personal record on the international art market, with her painting This Is Where I Travelled 3...

Sales at Tokyo Gendai Reflect an Evolving Market Surprisingly Resistant to Trend-Chasing

A new generation of Japanese collectors, often guided by curiosity rather than long-term investment thinking, is beginning to reshape who buys and why.

Currently on View in an Art-Fair Booth

If the art market ceases to exist, you’ll at least have a painting of Bart Simpson.

This Painting Was Purchased At An Estate Sale In Michigan For $30. It Just Sold At Auction For $1.3 Million

In 2025, a man attending an estate sale at the home of a deceased doctor in Michigan came upon a painting languishing in a dimly-lit corridor leading to the garage — and it turned...

Sotheby’s Lands the $450 Million Blaquier Collection, Led by a $180M Van Gogh

'Châtaignier en fleurs roses et blanches' leads a dozen Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces by Cézanne, Renoir, Degas and their peers owned by the Argentine sugar dyn...

London’s October Auction Results Suggest the Market Is Playing It Safe

Christie’s £107.5 million Peter Simon sale and a £31.6 million Kandinsky led a week in which buyers concentrated on established, institutionally backed names. Even blue-chip lots f...

Untitled Art Finds Its Footing in Houston With Its Second Edition

Strong opening-day sales across the fair's 99 booths, from emerging talent priced in the low thousands to established names approaching $100,000, suggest a buyer base deeper than m...

Collector Dick Hedreen Has Sold Artworks Before, But This Time the Proceeds Will Build a Museum

Proceeds from upcoming auctions at Sotheby's, expected to exceed $90 million, will fund a new museum at Seattle University to house his major 350-work gift.

Rare Disney Artwork From Gustaf Tenggren, Mary Blair, Carl Barks, And More Sells For $3.4 Million

Heritage’s three-day sale brought together 1,346 lots spanning Disney’s Golden Age, Renaissance era, theme parks, and Pixar history.

Where are the Art Collectors?

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New York teacher paid under $100 for painting; 60 years later, it sold for $189,200

A remarkable transformation has occurred for a painting acquired for under $100, which has now fetched an astonishing £189,200 due to its true provenance being uncovered. Hidden fo...

Rarely seen Scottish art with 'compelling provenance' to go under hammer

The paintings will be sold at an auction in Edinburgh

A $50 Hamptons barn-sale painting later sold for C$290,000 at auction

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A $450M art collection is poised to break Van Gogh and Cézanne’s auction records

In New York this fall, Sotheby’s will put up for auction a rare Vincent van Gogh painting, not seen for half a century, which it expects will sell for a staggering $180 million and...

For Sale: A Stick Chair & a Shelving Unit

This week we have two pieces we are selling to readers: a Welsh-style stick chair I made last month, plus a gorgeous walnut shelving unit that journeyer Kale Vogt made for a potter...

More Bob Ross paintings are heading to auction this fall to benefit public television

Auctions of his work have already raised $2 million for public broadcast stations nationwide.

Marseille’s Art-o-rama Lets Galleries Outgrow the Fair That Made Them

In a landscape where the costly major art fairs have "become badges or signifiers of success for galleries," small fairs provide a softer start.

Mondrian's defining masterpiece Composition III to be presented in Christie's 20/21 Evening Sale in London

Christie's announces that Piet Mondrian's Composition III will be one of the key highlights of its 20 th /21 st Century: London Evening Sale on 14 October 2026 during Frieze Wee...

Bonhams’ November Greek Sale brings together 186 works

Led by Constantinos Parthenis’ “The Annunciation,” valued at up to €350,000, major works of Greek art are heading to Paris for Bonhams’ 49th Greek Sale.