2025 Auction Records Maker/Artist 
The Art Newspaper
JULY 15, 2025
In May, Christie’s for the first time delivered a white-glove sale for its online Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art auction in Dubai. The sale included a section dedicated to Saudi artists, with almost all the works selling over their high estimates. Marwan’s last solo show in London was at the Mosaic Rooms in 2015.
Invaluable
JULY 16, 2025
Key Motifs For centuries, fans of art, sculpture and fashion have been forming an enthused circle around Celtic-inspired craft, drawn to the spiritually resonant and aesthetically attractive motifs that sit at the heart of Celtic artistic expression. Sold for $20,000 USD via Bonhams (June 2025). Valentin Magro: A Benitoite Brooch.
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WorthPoint
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Image source: Angela Weiss/ AFP via Getty Images / OPB On February 7, 2025, Sothebys in New York auctioned a 1714 Stradivarius violin, known as the Joachim-Ma. He is widely regarded as one of the best luthiers, or string instrument makers, in history. million in 2010 , the highest auction price for any instrument at that time.
Jewelry Judge
APRIL 16, 2025
A decade later, Holkar commissioned Mauboussin to redesign it into an Art Deco necklace worn by his wife, the Maharani, and immortalized in a portrait by artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel. Originally acquired by Holkar’s father, the pear-shaped blue diamond was first set into a bracelet in 1923.
The Art Newspaper
JULY 8, 2025
Lauder and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds, 1996 © Gerhard Richter 2025 Nicholas Serota, the former director of Tate, will co-curate a vast retrospective of works by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter this autumn at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (17 October-2 March 2026). Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S.
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