Analysis Early Lucian Freud Painting Leads Sotheby’s $100 Million Contemporary Art Evening Sale. It is the best of several paintings by Freud to be offered this week.

At the price levels contemporary art is now reaching—remember, the report is about $1m+ works—this flight to safety sees vendors thinking about selling contemporary to buy more validated works.

Works in the sale—dubbed The Contemporary Take —span prints and editions to unique works on paper, sculptures and paintings. They have estimates ranging from $4,000 to $1.2m.

Months prior to the sale, when the consignments were revealed, Christie’s head of postwar and contemporary art Brett Gorvy had said that he thought the paintings could potentially break the $100 ...

Though the house’s, and the world’s, highest previous auction total, from November 2013, was $691.6 million, tonight’s was just at the top of a pre-sale estimate of $519.1 million to $711.6 ...

Sotheby's Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art sale in London. 14 June 2012 • 5:16pm Joan Miro's Peinture (Etoile Blueu) is placed on a wall at Sotheby's in London.

Saffronart’s contemporary south asian sale ( 21st – 22nd 0ctober ) of 55 lots raises a toast to some of the finest names in the present day contemporary art circuit. On the covetous cover ...