Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, carefully chose each of the more than 500-year-old pieces. The Guardian claimed that hundreds of pieces from the large art collection of paintings and sculptures owned by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were sold at auction for a combined total of $1.5 billion. These pieces were by artists […]
Three years after the high-profile divorce proceedings of New York real estate developer Harry Macklowe and Linda, his ex-wife, their art collection is now the biggest art auction. All about the $922 million art auction Over the course of two different sales, Harry Macklowe and Linda’s art collection raked a total of $922.2 million. The […]
A portrait of Marilyn Monroe made by Andy Warhol was sold for $195 million at Christie’s, becoming the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever sold at a public auction. The 1964 ‘Shot Sage Blue Marilyn’ is one in a series of portraits that Warhol made of Monroe, following her death in 1962. Pre-sale projections were as […]
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 18 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Tata CLiQ Luxury, India's premier luxury lifestyle platform, has announced the launch of 'The Watch Society', a phygital society aimed at engaging with the luxury and aspiring consumer and forming special interest groups for the luxury watch category.
A manuscript co-authored by Albert Einstein was auctioned for $13.17 million on Tuesday. It provides a rare glimpse into the thinking of Albert Einstein and his notes leading up to his general relativity theory. According to Reuters, Christie’s assessed the manuscript’s value to be between 2 million and 3 million euros. The 54-page manuscript has […]
Sotheby‘s said that Michael Jordan’s pair of sneakers worn early in his career sold for about $1.5 million on Sunday. It establishes a record price at auction for game-worn footwear. The shoes are of white leather with the red Nike swoosh and soles. Michael had worn this in the fifth game of his rookie season […]
Sotheby‘s said that Michael Jordan’s pair of sneakers worn early in his career sold for about $1.5 million on Sunday. It establishes a record price at auction for game-worn footwear. The shoes are of white leather with the red Nike swoosh and soles. Michael had worn this in the fifth game of his rookie season […]
At a Paris auction on Thursday, a private, anonymous American collector paid 6.65 million euros ($7.74 million) for the fossilized remains of ‘Big John’. Big John is the largest triceratops dinosaur the paleontologists ever unearthed. Big John roamed modern-day South Dakota more than 66 million years ago. It got the name after the owner of […]
‘Love is in the Bin,’ is British street artist Banksy’s half-shredded painting. It has sold for a record $25 million (£18.6 million). The painting’s estimated value was 4.6 million pounds, but it sold for three times that amount. A public auction According to Sotheby’s, the painting belongs to the anti-art group popularized by Marcel Duchamp’s […]
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. The adage stands all the more true in the world of arts, where it is hard to distinguish great art from mediocre ones. As a curator, Katherine Hu has built a career on identifying and presenting great works of art. Here is a better look at the […]