Phillips has announced the auction debut of Lee Bontecou’s Plate 166 (1961) during its Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York this May.
Artcurial’s Old Master & 19th Century Art auctions held on March 25 and 26, 2026, achieved a combined total of €5,581,187.
Phillips has announced the sale of an oversized 1929 Patek Philippe wristwatch, signed by Tiffany & Co., as part of The New York Watch Auction: XIV.
Phillips has announced a new 'Collections & Provenance' section for its upcoming Geneva Jewels Auction, marking the house's 230th anniversary. The sale will include historic objects and jewelry from the Vanderbilt family, the Kings of Bavaria, and various European noble houses.
Artcurial will present the exhibition 'Frida Kahlo & Leo Matiz. One Gaze, Two Souls' at its Milan location from April 15 to April 24, 2026.
Phillips auction house has announced an upcoming event in London scheduled for April 16, 2026. The announcement establishes the date for the firm's spring programming in the United Kingdom.
Artcurial will offer a rare preparatory drawing by Antoine-Jean Gros depicting General Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole during its Old Master & 19th Century Drawings auction on March 25, 2026.
Artcurial will hold a series of Modern and Contemporary Art auctions in Paris on April 16 and 17, 2026. The sales feature major works by Paul Gauguin, George Condo, and Rembrandt Bugatti, with high estimates reaching €850,000.
Artcurial achieved total sales of €208.5 million in 2025, a 12% increase over the previous year, with 19 lots exceeding the €1 million threshold.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer's annual Basel auctions concluded with a combined total of CHF 4.9 million (€5.4 million) across Swiss Art, International Art, and Important Watches categories. A Patek Philippe Ref. 3940 'Beyer No.
Artcurial will auction a 2.75-meter section of the original 1889 spiral staircase from the Eiffel Tower on May 21, 2026. The piece, known as section no. 1, formerly connected the second and third floors and was dismantled during modernization work in 1983.
Artcurial will auction the third and final part of the Jean Bourdel library collection in Paris on April 14, 2026, featuring rare 16th-century literature and French Gothic prints.
Artcurial Motorcars realized a total of €15 million during its first 'Automobile Legends' sale held at The Peninsula Paris. A 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Gullwing’ led the auction, selling for a record €4,407,800, while a Ferrari F92A Formula 1 car driven by Jean Alesi fetched €2,912,800.
Artcurial has named Lucile Best as the new Head of its Fashion and Luxury Accessories department, where she will oversee biannual auctions in Paris and Monaco. Best previously held roles at Sotheby’s and specialized in luxury authentication and digital sales for e-commerce platforms.
Artcurial’s recent Impressionist, Modern, Post-War, and Contemporary art auctions achieved a combined total of €11,245,009 including fees. Top lots included a Francis Bacon oil on canvas which sold for €1,475,355 and a rediscovered 1889 panel by Paul Gauguin that reached €1,006,240.
Artcurial Motorcars concluded the 'Renault Icons' auction featuring over 1,000 registered bidders and several million-euro results for historic racing vehicles.
Osman Hamdi Bey’s 'Cami Kapisinda (At the Mosque Door)' sold for £3,678,400 at Bonhams London on March 25, exceeding its high estimate of £3,000,000. The work, which had been held by the University of Pennsylvania since 1895, led a 72-lot auction that realized a total of £6,326,238.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will host two landmark fashion auctions in Paris, beginning with an online-only sale dedicated to footwear from April 2 to 15, followed by a live haute couture auction on April 14, 2026.
Bonhams will hold a live auction titled 'MORE THAN RED' on March 28, 2026, featuring six works by Yayoi Kusama from a Japanese private collection, including a red 'Pumpkin' (2000) estimated at HK$15,000,000-25,000,000.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will host its Old Master and 19th Century Paintings sale in Paris on April 21, 2026, featuring Ivan Aivazovsky’s 'View of Capri' with an estimate of €250,000–350,000.
Bonhams concluded its March Asia Week in New York with a total of $12.5 million across six live sales at its new headquarters in the Steinway Building.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold its Classics auction in Paris on April 22, featuring a private Asian collection of early Meissen porcelain and imperial silver masterworks.
Bonhams Fine Jewellery auction in London on March 25, 2026, achieved an 87% sell-through rate by lot and 98% by value across 273 lots. A Cartier 'C de Cartier' diamond necklace was the top lot, selling for £40,960 against an estimate of £18,000-25,000.
Bonhams will offer the Cannon Collection in two parts, featuring Egyptian and Roman antiquities, early English glass, and Modern British painting. Part I will be a live auction at New Bond Street on April 15, 2026, while Part II will be held online from April 6–16, 2026.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr's Surrealist sale on March 26 in Paris achieved a total of €1,372,206, led by Salvador Dalí’s 1939 stage set 'Bacchanale' which sold for €254,400 to The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Phillips has announced 'Sebastião Salgado: A Life’s Voyage,' a collection of signed masterworks spanning four decades of the photographer's career. The works will be sold across a dedicated online auction and the seasonal Photographs live auction in New York on April 11.
Phillips will hold its Photographs auction on April 11 in New York, featuring works spanning the history of the medium. The sale is headlined by 'Sebastião Salgado: A Life’s Voyage,' a dedicated sequence of works offered across both live and online formats.
Phillips has released the first selection of works for its April Editions & Works on Paper auctions and the May Evening Sale of Modern & Contemporary Art in New York.
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