Art market 2025 review: all eyes on the Gulf as Trump destabilises global order – The Art Newspaper
The contraction of the global art market stretched well into 2025, with the challenging macro environment cited as…
Tadej Pogačar and the $262,958 Colnago
How much would you pay for a KOM? Or someone else’s KOM? How much would you pay for…
A Frida Kahlo self-portrait sells for US $55M,
Frida Kahlo made history this week as her haunting 1940 self-portrait, “El sueño (La cama)” — which translates…
Frida Kahlo Becomes Most Expensive Woman Artist at Auction
Poised to shatter records ahead of its highly anticipated sale, one of Mexican Surrealist Frida Kahlo’s most vulnerable…
Klimt’s Elisabeth Lederer Portrait Sells for $236.4 M. at Sotheby’s
A watershed moment for the November auctions arrived tonight at Sotheby’s, where Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) sold…
What Happens When the Old Whitney Breuer Building Becomes a Sotheby’s
When I heard in 2023 that Sotheby’s, one of the Big Three auction houses alongside Christie’s and Phillips,…
Frida Kahlo portrait could sell for $60 million and shatter records at Sotheby’s
LONDON (AP) — Frida Kahlo’s face is one of the best known in art, thanks to her bold…
Morning Links for October 31, 2025.
The Headlines ROYAL FLUSH. During the marquee New York sales next month, Maurizio Cattelan, whose duct-taped banana sold for $6.2 million…
David Hockney’s iPad Drawings Smash High Estimate at Sotheby’s
A group of 17 iPad drawings by David Hockney, titled “The Arrival of Spring,” hit the auction block…
How Basquiat Became One of the World’s Most Valuable Artists
In September, Gaston & Sheehan, a tiny auctioneer in Pflugerville, Texas, sold Red Man One, a 1982 painting…
Is the Persian Gulf Art Boom an Autocrat-Created Mirage?
While art markets in Europe and the United States sputter, a very different story is unfolding on the…
Sotheby’s New Breuer Building HQ Slated to Open November 8
Sotheby’s has announced November 8 as the opening date for its new Breuer Building headquarters at 945 Madison…