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...This analyses sales of unique works at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, with data from ArtTactic....
...Totals at Sotheby’s and Christie’s came in at the low end of expectations, already revised down after a number of withdrawals, while Phillips’ slim sale of £10.9mn (£13.7mn with fees) on March 7 didn’t quite...
...For the three major auction houses — Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips — whose sales rely heavily on the thin $10mn-plus market, the unsettling backdrop contributed to a combined fall of 18 per cent to...
...Phillips hosts its first auction dedicated to ceramics made by Lucie Rie and her colleague and friend Hans Coper in London on November 1....
...Combined first-half sales for Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips were down 18 per cent, says ArtTactic. Costs are unlikely to have followed suit....
...Ackman said in January that he gave $1mn to We Deserve Better, the super Pac supporting Dean Phillips, the Democratic congressman who has launched a long-shot run for the nomination against Biden....
...Last year Phillips opened a swanky space designed by Herzog & de Meuron and LAAB Architects, opposite M+; Sotheby’s has commissioned the Rotterdam architects MVRDV to design its new “Maison” to open in the...
...Sotheby’s and Christie’s also announced record sales totals last year, of $8bn and $8.4bn, respectively....
...He says, though, that news this week that China’s gross domestic product growth performed better than expected in the first quarter of the year could improve the mood ahead of sales at Christie’s and Phillips...
...The small, nearly monochromatic work — “The Adoration of the Kings” (now dated c1628) — was catalogued as Circle of Rembrandt at Christie’s in Amsterdam in 2021 and estimated at €10,000-€15,000....
...The aim, says Phillip Ihenacho, the director, is to show that far from being a dusty repository of restituted bronzes, MOWAA wants to become a living, breathing centre for working artists, an engine of job...
...Geneva has long been the global centre of high-end watch auctions, home to twice-yearly flagship sales staged by Christie’s, Phillips, Sotheby’s and Antiquorum that regularly attract some of the most valuable...
...Peyton appears again in Phillips’ “20th Century to Now” sale on June 30, with a timely portrait of a young Prince Harry (£400,000-£600,000)....
...A similar multi-tier system applies at Christie’s and Phillips....
...Collector Masa Tamaoki, watch specialist for Christie’s in Japan, owns five Genta Disney pieces, including a rare Scrooge McDuck....
...Of the works that did sell, some had lost value since their previous outings: a 1974 Cy Twombly work on paper went for within estimate at £190,500 (with fees) at Phillips, having been bought in 2007 for...
...“Down but not yet out” is the conclusion of ArtTactic’s report on global auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips for the first half of this year, which combined fell 18.2 per cent on 2022....
...At Phillips in 2021, Juszkiewicz’s fungi-headed Girl in Blue (2013) sold for $730,800 (over an $80,000-$120,000 estimate); at a Christie’s charity auction in New York a year later, the elegantly altered...
...Meanwhile, Khouri has exhibited her one-off creations through Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s in the past....
...Poly’s efforts to sell more western works on the Chinese market, however, come as Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, the world’s three major auction houses, have all announced plans to move into newer and...
...But “it’s not all doom and gloom”, says Jonathan Crockett, chair of Asia at Phillips....
...There are also three oils by David Hockney, topped by his bright “The Gate” (2000), which Allen bought at Phillips in 2016 for $7mn, now estimated at the same level....
...When upgrading a home, water features can dramatically set a property apart from the rest – even in the most suburban of locations, as architect Gregory Phillips, founder and director of Gregory Phillips...
...And, today, Christie’s Geneva is hosting a FP Journe live sale — the first ever dedicated to a single independent watchmaker....
...Sensing the number of collectors passing through town, the auction houses moved their midseason sales into “Frieze Week”; across Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, last October’s evening sales totalled...
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