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.

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 ...

The sale features two paintings by Sakyiamah that the artist created in 2021. Both feature Black women wearing colorful sunglasses and scarves. They have an estimate of between £2,400 and £3,500 ...

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.

Arts Browse contemporary art at the Tufts University SMFA Art Sale The three-day art sale will take place Nov. 4-6. Over a thousand contemporary works will be on view at the SMFA Nov. 4-6.

Then, on October 18, 1973, in front of a slew of television cameras and a packed salesroom at the auction house Sotheby Parke Bernet, they put 50 works from their collection up for sale ...