The jewelry auction held on May 21, 2026 at Dorotheum recorded a remarkable result for the house, with a Kashmir sapphire brooch selling for 779,000 euros. The jewel, featuring an 18.695-carat deep blue sapphire, was made around 1880 by the Viennese ...
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After more than half a century of absence from the market, The Thebaid attributed to Fra Angelico is back in the news, once again gaining attention on the market. The painting, which disappeared from circulation since the 1970s but was always conside...
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The art market calendar for the third week of May 2026 is shaping up to be among the most articulate and varied of the entire spring season. Here are the auctions scheduled for the coming days.
Auctions in Italy
Between May 21 and 27, 2026, the spo...
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Great international participation and outstanding results were achieved for the Contemporary Art auction organized by Dorotheum in Vienna on May 20, 2026, an evening that attracted the market's attention mainly thanks to the new world record set by C...
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An evening destined to go down in international art market history. On Monday, May 18, 2026, Christie's in New York surpassed the billion-dollar mark for the second time in history in a single night of sales, thanks to the consecutive Masterpieces: T...
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Scheduled by Finarte on May 28, at its Rome headquarters at via Quattro Novembre 114, is a major auction of Old Master Paintings and Drawings of nearly three hundred lots articulated in two rounds and built around a nucleus of works that puts back in...
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The art market calendar for the second week of May 2026 looks to be among the richest and most diverse of the entire spring season. Let's look at it together.
Auctions in Italy
The week opens on Thursday, May 14, with a crucial day: in Rome, Colasa...
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In Milan's Via Manzoni spaces, Pandolfini auction house presents an auction on May 13 dedicated tomodern and contemporary art that brings together works from private collections and largely unseen on the market. The catalog traverses the internationa...
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On May 21 in Cologne, the Lempertz auction house will close its week devoted to ancient art with a sale of paintings and drawings that brings together 250 lots, offering a broad traversal of European art history from the Northern Renaissance to the I...
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The art market calendar for the week between April and May 2026 promises to be one of the densest and most varied of the spring season.
Auctions in Italy
In Italy, activity is feverish, featuring some of the industry's most prestigious signatures. ...
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The art and collectibles market is gearing up for a busy week. Between April 23 and April 29, 2026, the offerings become extremely varied, ranging from masterpieces of ancient painting to fine jewelry, from pop culture to comic books to the dynamism ...
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Two paintings by Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926) that had remained in private collections for more than a century were auctioned at Sotheby 's in Paris on April 16 as part of the Art Moderne et Contemporain Evening Auction sale(we discuss...
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The art and collectibles market is gearing up for an extraordinarily lively week. Between April 16 and April 22, 2026, leading Italian and international auction houses will open their doors to collectors and investors, and offer catalogs ranging from...
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In technical jargon they are called sleepers: they are those works that go through an auction with an attribution and estimate that undervalues them, but the market tends instead to believe that they are something more than the auction house thought,...
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After two years of contraction, the global art and collectibles market returned to growth in 2025, marking a significant turnaround although still immersed in an uncertain international context. This is what emerges from the ninth edition of the repo...
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On April 28, 2026, the Dorotheum auction house in Vienna will hold its auction dedicated to Old Master Paintings, offering a selection of works whose history is intertwined with the history of Europe itself. Among the most interesting lots is a fragm...
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