Auction results, record sales, and hammer prices from Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and the major houses.
136 stories across Paris, Contemporary, Modern, and Phillips. Latest: Phillips London Design Sale Doubles High Estimate, Realises £4.8M; Odundo Leads, Bellotto Record.
Phillips' London Design sale on November 4, 2026, totalled £4,847,369 ($6,535,223 / €5,809,087), more than double the presale high estimate, with 95% of 131 lots sold by lot and 99% by value.
On November 5, 2026, Millon announced the sale of Jean Hélion's monumental painting 'Petite musique de nuit' (1966-1967) in its November 24, 2026 auction in Paris. The work, estimated at €300,000 to €500,000, measures three by five meters and depicts a Bastille Day night scene on Belle-Île.
Millon's MASTERS sale, taking place on November 24, 2026, in Paris, will present 43 lots spanning from Middle Kingdom Egypt to early 20th-century silverwork.
Bonhams will hold its Post-War & Contemporary Art and Impressionist & Modern Art sales on November 19 at its New York flagship galleries at 111 West 57th Street, following a 20th & 21st Century Art Evening Sale the prior evening.
On October 29, 2026, Christie's Hong Kong presented three prestigious single-owner collections of Chinese ceramics and works of art, achieving a combined total of HK$737.8 million (US$94 million) across three seasons.
Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo will offer Cartier Portico Mystery Clock No. 4 at The Geneva Watch Auction: XXIV on November 7–8, 2026, at Hotel President in Geneva, with an estimate of CHF 1,800,000–3,200,000.
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MILLON RIVIERA in Nice will offer nearly 200 works from a family collection of Maurice Denis at auction on December 14, 2026. Spanning the late 1880s to the 1940s, the sale includes about fifty important paintings and a large group of drawings, studies and sketches.
Millon's L'Europe de l'Art Nouveau sale in Paris on November 20, 2026, is led by Émile Gallé's 'Le Calumet de Paix' vase (€40,000-60,000). The 82-cm piece, signed and dated 1900, features Baudelaire's verses and tobacco flower decoration, and was shown at the 1900 Exposition Universelle.
Artcurial's "Art Deco / Design: Lalanne & Bestiary of Decorative Arts" sale in Paris on November 25, 2026, will present an exceptional selection of works by François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, led by François-Xavier Lalanne's "Capricorne" (2007), a major animal-inspired sculpture estimated at €1,.
Christie's will offer 'Anthology of Design: Masterworks from a French-American Collection' in a single-owner sale on December 9 in New York.
Artcurial's Art Week auctions in Paris on October 24 achieved a combined total of €20,687,410 (including fees), with two sales dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
Bonhams presents 'Piety and Pewter,' an online auction featuring The Hayes Collection of Fine & Early Works of Art and the Palmer Pewter Collection, running October 13-27, 2026 on bonhams.com.
On October 20, 2026, MILLON announced it will present three major works by Pham Hau (1903-1995), a leading figure in the revival of Vietnamese lacquer art, in Paris, London, and Hanoi in November 2026.
Grisebach announced its Winter Auctions 2026 in Berlin, held November 26–27, 2026, featuring 275 works with a combined low estimate of about €15 million. The lead lot is Yves Klein's 1960 'Untitled Shroud Anthropometry (ANT SU 30)', estimated at €2–3 million.
MILLON dispersed the René Chateau film memorabilia collection across three auctions from April to October 2026, achieving a combined total of over €690,000.
Phillips’ October Editions & Works on Paper sales in New York totaled $4,026,348 across October 22 and 24, 2026, with 85% of 265 lots sold by lot and 87% by value. The house announced the results on October 26, 2026.
Aguttes announced that it will auction an exceptional silver-gilt tea and coffee service belonging to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaïevna of Russia (1822–1892), daughter of Tsar Nicholas I, as part of its Classical Arts sale on November 12, 2026, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Crafted in St.
Lempertz announced its Old Masters and 19th Century auction, scheduled for November 21, 2026. The sale will reunite two panels from a Johann Koerbecke altar wing that were separated in 1936: the Annunciation (est. €200,000–300,000) and the Vision of St Bernard (est. €200,000–300,000).
On October 26, 2026, Millon announced its solidarity auction program, MILLON Solidaire, which supports medical research, poverty alleviation, child protection, and press freedom.
Millon and Boisgirard-Antonini announced a charity auction for the Petits Frères des Pauvres association, to be held on October 25, 2026, at the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent-sur-Marne.
Bonhams will offer the 'Somerset Hoard', a collection of seven veteran cars hidden away since World War II, at its Golden Age of Motoring Sale on Friday 30 October at New Bond Street, London.
Bonhams sold the 'Hatfield' Apple-1 computer for $1.15 million, setting a world auction record for a commercially sold Apple-1. The sale closed on October 14 after a 28-minute bidding war between two bidders.
Phillips' Vente Art Moderne & Contemporain et Design in Paris on October 21, 2026, totaled €4,874,265 ($5,469,413), with 48 of 53 lots sold for a 91% sell-through rate by lot and 98% by value.
Artcurial will present its first sale dedicated to contemporary Latin American art, titled Amazonia Dream, from the collection of Victor Barrios Llanos, a former mathematics professor.
On October 14, 2026, Christie's announced that its London 20/21 Evening Sales generated £218,603,400 ($289,430,902), a 103% increase year over year. The combined sales, held at King Street, achieved sell-through rates of 91% by lot and 96% by value.
Christie's announced the sale of Property from the Collection of Wilma (Billie) and Laurence Tisch, with the first works offered in London on October 21, 2026 and the majority sold in New York during its November Marquee Week.
On October 20, 2026, Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo announced highlights for The Hong Kong Watch Auction: XXIII, running November 21-22, 2026, in Hong Kong. Leading the independent watchmaking section is an F.P.
Phillips' Modern & Contemporary Art sales in London on October 15 and 17, 2026, totalled £21.5 million, with 81% of lots sold and 89% sold by value. The top lot was Georg Baselitz's Transmission, which sold for £645,000, more than four times its pre-sale estimate.
On October 16, 2026, Lyon & Turnbull announced that a rare lantern designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Miss Cranston’s Ingram Street Tearooms in Glasgow sold for £609,850, more than twenty times its £20,000–£30,000 estimate.
Phillips' Evening Sale of Modern & Contemporary Art in London on October 15, 2026, realised £14,836,750 ($19,666,112), up 44% year over year, selling all 20 lots for a 100% sell-through rate by lot and by value.
Phillips' October Photographs auctions in New York totaled $5,486,757 across October 8–13, 2026, with 249 of 334 lots sold, a 75% sell-through rate by lot and 80% by value. The sales set new auction records for Mao Ishikawa, Casper Faassen, Elliott Erwitt, and Henry Gilpin.
Phillips in Association with Bacs & Russo will offer the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona Reference 6239 presented to Vic Elford after his 1968 victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona in The New York Watch Auction: XV on December 5–6, 2026, with an estimate of $100,000–200,000.
Artcurial will auction the collection of Marie-Claude Beaud, the influential curator and former director of the Fondation Cartier, Mudam Luxembourg, and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, in Paris on December 1, 2026.
Phillips' November Evening Sale of Modern & Contemporary Art in New York on November 18, 2026, will be headlined by Amedeo Modigliani's limestone sculpture 'Tête', estimated at $28–35 million.
Bonhams will auction a single lot of 204 bottles (34 cases) of 31-Year-Old Springbank whisky, distilled in 1994 and bottled in November 2025, with an estimate of £90,000–120,000.
Bonhams has confirmed a further selection of cars for its forthcoming Zoute Sale at the Zoute Grand Prix in Knokke Heist on 11 October 2026. Leading the sale is a 1961 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster with an estimate of €1,150,000 - €1,450,000. The car, chassis no.
Bonhams will present its live American Art sale on November 3 in New York at its U.S. flagship galleries, 111 West 57th Street. The 107-lot auction spans 19th-century Hudson River School painting, the Ashcan School, and Modernism.
On October 5, 2026, Christie's announced 'Heroes and Lovers,' a private collection of nine masterpieces spanning 500 years, estimated at approximately $100 million. The collection includes works by Pablo Picasso, Tilman Riemenschneider, Cornelis Cornelisz.
Aguttes will auction a René Lalique Art Nouveau brooch on October 29, originally designed as the central element of a dog collar necklace.
Aguttes announced its first auction dedicated to animation cels, drawings, and storyboards, led by its Pop Culture & Memorabilia department.
On October 9, 2026, Aguttes announced its expanded presence in Spain's collector car and motorcycle market, highlighting sales including a 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 RS for €1,020,000 and Mr. A.'s motorcycle collection for over €328,000.
Aguttes announced that its October 15, 2026 "Arts de la table" sale will feature five lots by 19th-century Brussels silversmith Joseph Germain Dutalis (1780-1852), a major figure in European silverware who served monarchies including King William I of the Netherlands and King Leopold I of Belgium.
Phillips will hold its Vente Art Moderne & Contemporain et Design, a live auction of 55 lots, in Paris on October 21. The sale is led by works from the Collection of Marcel Brient, including Joan Miró's 'Peinture' from 1930, coming to auction for the first time in nearly a century.
On October 8, 2026, French auction house Aguttes announced the private sale of a Torchic Gold Star PSA 10 Pokémon card from the EX Team Rocket Returns expansion.
Aguttes announced the upcoming sale of a Jacques Boquay violin through its String Quartet Instruments & Bows department. The violin, made by the early 18th-century Parisian luthier, will be offered on November 30, 2026 at 3:30 p.m.
Aguttes will auction a 19th-century silver plate for serving hot chestnuts, crafted by the renowned Parisian silversmith Odiot, on October 15, 2026, at its Gennevilliers saleroom. The plate, designed to imitate a folded napkin, features hinged compartments to keep chestnuts warm.
Bonhams will offer the personal archive of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in a live auction at its London saleroom on February 3, 2027, with an online auction ending February 4.
On October 8, 2026, Aguttes announced it will auction a Giorgio de Chirico portrait of Ginetta Rondi Gariboldi, mother of film critic Gian Luigi Rondi, on November 28. The 1973 painting was created after a personal meeting in Sorrento and given by de Chirico to Rondi.
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