Art Market

The Art Newspaper - The brain drain of executives from auction houses continues apace. In the third shock departure in roughly as many weeks, Loic Gouzer, Christie’s co-chairman of post-war and contemporary art...

Artsy - The spree of Frieze auctions kicked off in London on Thursday with a three-hour-long sale at Christie’s King Street salesroom here in London’s Mayfair. The night brought in a total of £84.6 million ($10...

The Art Newspaper - Ten years ago, on 15 September 2008, Damien Hirst sold £70.5m of his own work at Sotheby’s in London, a ballsy move by an artist, bypassing the usual middle-men. The same evening, Lehman Bro...

The Art Newspaper -Christie’s reports it has netted its highest ever half year sales total (in pounds not dollars), racking up £2.97bn — a 26% increase on last year. The previous high of £2.9bn was in 2015. The...