Tag: Auction

Rare and Original Watercolor Illustrations of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Jungle Book’ Go Up for Auction

The two paintings were copied into a limited-edition book of illustrations published almost a decade after the famous...

Sotheby’s to Auction de Gunzburg Collection of Design and Blue Chip Art

Sotheby’s is about to turn a pair of very polished lives into a two-part auction season.In April and May,...

Artists Rally for Jamaica and Los Angeles With Benefit Auction During L.A. Art Week

The art world loves a party. This time it’s putting that energy to work. On February 26, during L.A....

The Nazis Stole This Rare Jewish Prayer Book Decorated With Dragons, Unicorns and Intricate Floral Patterns. It Just Sold for $6.4 Million at Auction

A scribe created the volume, now known as the Rothschild Vienna Mahzor, in Vienna 600 years ago. It was...

What Would Happen to Auction Houses If Luxury Sales Outstrip Art?

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every...

Kerry Taylor to Auction Lee Alexander McQueen’s Own Wardrobe in London

THE REAL MCQUEEN: Lee Alexander McQueen’s designs, with their pin-sharp tailoring and gothic flair, may be immediately recognizable, and...

Food52 Sold for $10.3 Million As Auction Breaks Up Company

Food52’s bankruptcy auction in a Delaware court concluded by splitting the once-integrated content-to-commerce company into three separate pieces, marking...

Rembrandt Drawing Breaks Auction Record: Morning Links

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. THE HEADLINESFALLEN CROWN. For the first time since the brazen...

A Brooch Once Belonging to Audrey Hepburn Sold for $425,000 at Auction

BIDDING GEMS: Signaling sustained and robust demand for fine jewelry amid a wider luxury lull, a Bulgari brooch...

Dozens of Items That Once Belonged to Nelson Mandela Can Head to Auction, South African Court Rules

The collection includes shirts, sunglasses, a signed copy of South Africa's first post-apartheid constitution and a prison key from...