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On August 11, 2026, Phillips announced an exclusive drop with KidSuper Studios, the fashion label of artist Colm Dillane. The drop includes 50 limited-edition studio cases, each containing a unique original artwork, and seven new paintings inspired by New York City.
Bonhams|Cars has announced its Greenwich Auction, scheduled for May 31, featuring a 1991 Lamborghini Diablo estimated at $300,000–350,000 and a selection of rare Porsche 356 models.
Bonhams|Cars reported a total sale value of $5,256,664 from its National Automobile Museum Auction in Reno, Nevada, with 100% of lots sold.
A rare 1957 Porsche 356A Carrera GT in factory-correct Aquamarine Blue sold for $511,000 including premium at Bonhams|Cars Greenwich Auction, against an estimate of $500,000–$700,000.
Bonhams will hold its Luxury Handbags sale from June 1-10, 2026, highlighting the Louis Vuitton x Takashi Murakami collaboration along with designs from Hermès, Chanel, and Christian Dior.
Bonhams will auction a rare Lotus 49B Formula 1 car, chassis number '49-R8', at its Festival of Speed sale on June 27. The car is the last Lotus to be sold from the collection of the late John Dawson-Damer and has never before been offered at auction.
Bonhams presented its Exceptional Jewels, London sale on June 11, featuring an outstanding selection of period and antique jewellery from six notable single-owner collections.
Artcurial will auction the collection 'Le goût Rothschild en héritage, Un pied-à-terre sur le Champ-de-Mars' on September 22, 2026, in Paris. The sale spans furniture, decorative arts, Old Master paintings, books, and autographs assembled over generations of the Rothschild family.
Artcurial's prestige auction series, held July 6-8, 2026, at the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo, achieved a total of €16 million across sales of watches, jewelry, handbags, and sculptures. The auction saw 93% of lots sold.
Bonhams Classics Week achieved a total of £9,799,750 across seven live and four online auctions, with the top lot being Georgios Klontzas's triptych 'The Fall and Redemption of Man (the Spada Triptych)' which sold for £1,863,400, setting a world auction record for the artist.
Bonhams' 'American Stories: Celebrating 250 Years of Independence' sale concluded on June 30 in Massachusetts, achieving $2.4 million and surpassing its pre-sale estimate.
Artcurial will hold the "Iconoclasts – 20 Years of the Urban Department" auction on November 18, 2026, marking the 20th anniversary of its urban art department.
Christie's 20th Century Evening Sale in New York achieved $287.4 million, exceeding the pre-sale estimate by 14%. The sale was led by a work from the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, which sold for $117.2 million.
Artcurial will auction a 1959 portrait of Brigitte Bardot by Kees Van Dongen on October 24, 2026, estimated at €800,000–1,200,000.
A cast of the death mask of Napoleon Bonaparte sold for £169,250 at Bonhams Book, Map and Manuscript sale in Knightsbridge, London. It exceeded the estimate of £40,000-60,000.
Bonhams will offer the personal collection of Terence Stamp (1938-2025) for the first time at its Knightsbridge location.
Lempertz will hold an auction of Central African art on July 1 in Brussels. The top lot is a 19th-century royal Ngongo figure from northern Kasai-Occidental in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, estimated at 120,000 to 150,000 euros.
Bonhams will hold two parallel spirits auctions in Edinburgh. The online cask auction A Campbeltown Legend: 1995 Springbank - Rare Sherry Cask runs from 22 September to 14 October with bidding starting at £160,000 and estimates of £200,000 to £300,000.
Bonhams|Cars will offer a 1960 Ferrari 250 GT Coupé with bespoke Drogo coachwork at The Monaco Sale 'Les Grandes Marques à Monaco'. The car, chassis '1717 GT', carries an estimate of €2,500,000 – 3,000,000 and will headline the auction at Villa La Vigie in Monte Carlo.
Artcurial will offer the Louis Grandchamp des Raux collection at auction on October 24, 2026 at 4pm at Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer in Geneva. The sale brings together nearly seventy-five works by forty-four artists spanning Impressionism to Symbolism, the Nabis and the Pont-Aven School.
Bonhams achieved a new world auction record for a bottle of Japanese whisky at its Legendary Japanese Whisky sale in Hong Kong. A unique Yamazaki 50 Year Old created exclusively for Club Natsume sold for HK$8,250,000, nearly doubling its high estimate of HK$4,200,000.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr hosted The Art of Luxury sale in Paris on 26 May 2026. The 200-lot live auction offered Hermès furniture from a private collection along with handbags from Hermès, Chanel and Louis Vuitton.
Artcurial, in partnership with Lempertz, will present the African and Oceanic art collection assembled by Belgian collector Jean-Jacques Rotthier from the 1970s in Paris on 8 September during Parcours des Mondes.
Artcurial will hold an antiquities auction on May 12, 2026, presenting the second part of the Christian Levett collection of ancient arms and armor from the former Mougins Museum of Classical Art.
Artcurial will conduct five auctions at the Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo from July 4 to 8, 2026. The sales open July 6 with Le Temps est Féminin, featuring ladies’ watches including a diamond-set Rolex Cellini Octagon Ref. 4650 and a Piaget Ref.
Artcurial auctions reached a total of €9,108,015. Nicolas de Staël’s 1949 work sold for €1,085,680. Rembrandt Bugatti’s Marabouts Centrepiece with six silver sculptures fetched €794,400.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer held its annual auction in Basel featuring Swiss Art, International Art before 1900 and Important Watches. The three sales reached CHF 4.9M (€5.4M). A new world record was set when the Patek Philippe “Beyer. No. 17” Ref. 3940 sold for CHF 762,150 (€843,113).
Artcurial will hold a series of Modern & Contemporary Art auctions in Paris on April 16 and 17, 2026.
Osman Hamdi Bey's Cami Kapisinda achieved £3,678,400 at Bonhams' 19th Century Paintings and British Impressionist Art sale on 25 March at Bonhams New Bond Street, London.
Artcurial will auction the third and final part of the Bourdel collection on April 14, 2026, in collaboration with experts Emmanuel Lhermitte and Philippine de Sailly.
Artcurial will offer section no. 1 of the original spiral staircase from the Eiffel Tower in its May 21, 2026 sale.
The Bonhams Surrealist sale on March 26 at Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr in Paris realized a total of €1,372,206 across 76 lots. Salvador Dalí's Bacchanale, executed in 1939 and consigned from an important private collection, sold for €254,400 to The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Bonhams will present The Cannon Collection in two parts this April. Part I, a live auction, takes place at Bonhams New Bond Street on April 15, 2026, with Part II offered online from April 6 to 16, 2026.
Bonhams held its Fine Jewellery London auction on March 25, 2026. The 273-lot sale was 87% sold by lot and 98% by value. The top lot, a Cartier diamond 'C de Cartier' necklace, achieved £40,960 against a pre-sale estimate of £18,000-25,000.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold its Classics auction in Paris on 22 April featuring an exceptional collection of early Meissen porcelain assembled in East Asia including pieces from the personal collection of Augustus the Strong Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
Bonhams March Asia Week New York at its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street concluded with a total of US$12.5 million across six live sales.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr will hold its Old Master Paintings sale in Paris on 21 April 2026.
Bonhams will stage the live auction MORE THAN RED: A Single Owner Collection of Exceptional Works by Yayoi Kusama on 28 March 2026 and the selling exhibition Hsiao Chin: Great Ego in Infinity from 18 March to 9 April 2026 in Hong Kong.
Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr presents two landmark fashion sales in Paris.
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