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Koons lobster snapped up amid day two sales at Art Basel

The Art Newspaper

Hauser & Wirth reported the sale of Frank Bowling’s Iceni (1975) for $1.8m, adding that Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform) (1991), priced at $16m, has been placed on “serious hold” for an institution. Berlin’s Galeria Plan B says it sold an untitled 2025 Adrian Ghenie painting for €1m.

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A sale as old as time: Natural History Museum to display £450,000 dinosaur fossil after London gallery helps secure buyer

The Art Newspaper

When David Aaron gallery first acquired the fossil, which was excavated in 2021-22 on the Skull Creek site in Moffat County, Colorado, it was thought the specimen was a Nanosaurus, considered one of the smallest dinosaurs of the Jurassic period. The donation is permanent and the skeleton is now on long-term view.

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Tops 2024 Art Sales With Her Poetic, Timeless Portraits

Artnet News

A major museum show began traveling internationally in 2021, and she set a $3.6 The post Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Tops 2024 Art Sales With Her Poetic, Timeless Portraits appeared first on Artnet News. million auction record in 2023.

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The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter

Maine Antique Digest

Freeman’s | Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman The first installment of a two-part sale of the barbershop collection of James Carpenter (1929-2021) was held by Freeman’s | Hindman at the company’s Cincinnati location on January 30. A Moxie store sign was the top lot of the day, but personalized

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Pure Country Antique Show

Maine Antique Digest

In 2021 Jill Mattingly decided to use her event venue, Bloomfield Barn near Chrisman, Illinois, to host a weekend sale of antiques. Chrisman, Illinois The story goes something like this. Simple concept. Minimal dealers. “It It would just be us and a couple of friends,” she said. And then, well, it wasn’t.

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A quartet of key art market players join forces to form ‘super group’ consultancy

The Art Newspaper

Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen that completely disintegrate in front of our eyes—much to the benefit of the volume of sales. Private sales, too, are growing as public auction values fall. A lot of that is to do with the way that sales are put together, and the impact of third-party guarantees.”

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Is Demand for Market Darling Yoshitomo Nara’s Work Cooling?

Artnet News

Artnet’s analytics reveal that global auction sales of Nara’s work have dropped by 56 percent since 2021. The post Is Demand for Market Darling Yoshitomo Nara’s Work Cooling? appeared first on Artnet News.

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