Amajor acquisition strengthens the collection of The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg , Florida, U.S., which was awarded what is described as the greatest work by Salvador Dalí (Figueres, 1904 - 1989) during the Surrealist auction last Mar...
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One of the most eagerly anticipated sales of the year for the antique drawing market was to be held on the afternoon of March 23 in the historic setting of theHôtel Drouot in Paris. Instead, just hours before bids were to be opened, the auction...
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A selection of works from the collection of renowned New York gallerist and collector Robert E. Mnuchin (1933 - 2025) will be auctioned in May in New York at Sotheby's, with a total estimate exceeding $130 million (about 111 million euros). The colle...
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A medal from the first Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 sold for 900,000 Danish kroner, or 120,422 euros, excluding auction fees, during an online auction organized by the Danish house Bruun Rasmussen Arts Auctioneers. Including buyer's fees, t...
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The Rothschild Mahzor, one of the most important medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts ever to appear on the market, has sold for $6.4 million. The adjudication took place in New York at Sotheby's, where the codex was offered with an estimate of be...
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New world record for a work by Michelangelo at auction: it happened at Christie's in New York, where a rare study for the Libyan Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel sold for $27.2 million (23.10 million euros). And to think that this figure was the result...
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New world record for Artemisia Gentileschi. At Christie' s auction on Feb. 4, theSelf-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria fetched a price of $5,687,000 (4.8 million euros), more than doubling the minimum estimate and marking the highest result ev...
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A drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669) depicting a young lion has made art market history by becoming the Dutch artist's most expensive work on paper ever sold at auction. The sheet, known as Young lion resting ("Young lion...
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