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17 September 2025

Florida's Norton Museum of Art Acquires Works by Basquiat, Eversley, Cassatt, and Others

The Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, announced that some 80 artworks will be added to the museum's collection via a combination of acquisitions and promised gifts. The new works cover a wide range of mediums and time periods, in step with the museum's focus on European, American, and Chinese art. ... read more (external link)

17 September 2025

$120 Million Pritzker Collection Goes to Sotheby's, Led by a Luminous Van Gogh

A collection of works by some of the key artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the holdings of major Chicago collectors Jay and Cindy Pritzker, will be among the artworks included at Sotheby's inaugural marquee Impressionist and Modern sale at its new Madison Avenue home this November. ... read more (external link)

17 September 2025

How Much Art Sold at Auction in the First Half of 2025?

Fine-art sales at auction between January 1 and June 30 totaled $4.7 billion, a 8.8 percent decrease from the same period in 2024. On a slightly more positive note, that's less than the 28 percent decline seen between the first halves of 2024 and 2023. ... read more (external link)

17 September 2025

Masterworks from Leonard Lauder Collection, Including $150 M. Klimt, Head to Sotheby's

The Klimt is by far the most expensive work announced for sale at a big auction house this fall. It is about $100 million more expensive than a Mark Rothko abstraction headed from Robert F. Weis and Patricia G. Ross Weis to Christie's, where it has been given a $50 million estimate. ... read more (external link)

10 September 2025

Elaine Wynn's $142 M. Francis Bacon Heads to LACMA as Christie's Secures Collection

The estate of top collector and casino magnate Elaine Wynn, who died this past April, has made decisions about the future of famed art holdings, with several works heading to auction in November and one heading to a museum next year. ... read more (external link)

10 September 2025

What Can 16th-Century Still Lifes Tell Us About Italy's Marine Biodiversity?

Consider the Mediterranean monk seal. The mammal has been prized on the Italian peninsula since ancient times, hunted for its meat, fur, oil, and medicinal properties - so much so that by the 16th century the animal had been pushed to the verge of extinction. ... read more (external link)

10 September 2025

Forgotten Histories and Fresh Narratives Emerge at Independent 20th Century

The premise of New York's Independent 20th Century is that the last century remains full of untapped potential. Founder Elizabeth Dee seeks out dealers who want to share obscure artists who deserve recognition for their place in the art-historical canon, as well as important bodies of work by otherwise well-known artists that have remained largely unseen. ... read more (external link)

10 September 2025

Galleries Report Uneven Sales at Frieze Seoul, With Success at the Top and Low Ends of the Market

Although the initial buzz of Frieze's Seoul launch has cooled and the broader market is slowing, international blue-chip galleries with spaces in the city are doubling down, using the moment to present top-tier shows of their star artists. ... read more (external link)

20 August 2025

Why You Should Know Maruja Mallo, the Artist Who Redefined Spanish Modernism

Once hailed as Spain's greatest woman artist of the 20th century, Maruja Mallo's impressive career has been overlooked in recent decades but that's starting to change. A bold new touring retrospective is reviving the legacy of this fearless modernist whose surreal, geometric, and socially charged works defied the norms of her time. ... read more (external link)

20 August 2025

Auction Houses Are Plugging the $3 B. Gap Left by Tanking Art Sales with Luxury Proceeds

At Sotheby's Paris last month, a battered secondhand Hermes Birkin bag sold for a record-setting $10 million. The sale marked the highest price ever paid for a handbag albeit a prototype owned by late fashion icon Jane Birkin but compared to the wider luxury goods market, which consulting firm McKinsey estimates at more than $330 billion annually, it's a drop in the bucket. ... read more (external link)

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