From French postwar design and American studio craft to ceramics, Tiffany lamps and contemporary collectible design, buyers at Sotheby’s and Phillips pursued rarity in all its forms. Photo: Louis Blancard • Art Digital Studio | Courtesy Sotheby’s On the heels of the $96 million, all-time record-setting Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg – Design … Read more
Christie’s May 20 evening sales achieved a combined total of $162,698,350. Photo: Alan Padilla There is very little room for error left among the major auction houses: increasingly, every consignment and sale must be executed with perfection, so that, at worst, a lot will go underestimated but still sell, particularly in the main evening sales … Read more
Among the works that Jennifer Gilbert University is selling to fund Lumana are works by Kenneth Noland Rare circuitwhich has an estimated value of between $4 million and $6 million, the highest amount for a work by the artist at auction. Courtesy Sotheby’s There are many reasons why art collectors decide to sell. The “three-prong … Read more
The de Gunzburg Collection achieved $96 million in a historic white-glove Sale at Sotheby’s New York, becoming the most valuable design collection in U.S. auction history. Courtesy of Sotheby’s Heralded as the most valuable single-owner design sale in Sotheby’s history, the collection of Jean and Terry de Gunzburg lived up to expectations. The April 22 … Read more
American media mogul SI Newhouse and British-American fashion editor and journalist Anna Wintour laugh at a party in New York City in 1990. (Photo by Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images) The big sale in London – which closed at more than £364.4 million across the three major theaters – had not yet ended when Christie’s and Sotheby’s … Read more
The iconic Jane Birkin‘s original Hermès Birkin bag is headed to Sotheby’s auction house in Paris this summer. This legendary accessory, which Jean-Louis Dumas (then-Hermès CEO) specially created in 1984 with and for Jane Birkin, set the stage for what would become fashion’s most coveted status symbol. The prototype, now known as the “Original Birkin,” … Read more