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Insights on Auction Sales: A Transformer and a Stamp Collection

WorthPoint

at Castle Auctions. Castle Auctions , a respected auction house based in Cyprus, recently held a sale featuring 376 items that totaled $23,587.37. While similar examples often bring in several thousand dollars at major auction houses, this one sold for just $556.11, making it a potential bargain.

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2024 Moving into 2025 Design Trends Likely to Affect Value of Personal Property

International Society of Appraisers

These trends are observed clearly in magazine displays, social media posts, and Pinterest, followed by changes in the direction of retail and auction house sales. In the past, furniture companies and named designers' ideas were the only ideas showcased on the printed or digital page.

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Insights on Auction Sales: Michael Jordan, Oushak Rug

WorthPoint

Yes, that’s the real name of the auction house. Charming Time Capsule An evocative and playful silver gelatin print titled Tantric Garden sold for $28,800 at Freeman’s Hindman. Michael Jordan Is Hot Everywhere A Michael Jordan 1986 Fleer rookie card graded PSA 4 sold for $3,335 at Pack Rat Salvage.

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Comment | Artnet sale underscores its impact on the industry—and its limitations in today's landscape

The Art Newspaper

Auction houses and dealers lost a chunk of the asymmetry of information that had served them well, hence their initial objections (and threatened lawsuits). Yet Artnet’s transparency was also welcome.

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Sotheby’s Giacometti Bust

WorthPoint

He worked in two and three dimensions, with sculptures, paintings, and prints all part of his work. Auctions are inherently gambles, so to speak, as while auction house staff can do their best to assess current market value and predict hammer prices, anything can happen.

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

The Art Newspaper

The pandemic also significantly altered the way auction houses sell art. Unlike auction houses, which often operate large teams, Gorvy points out the new consortium can keep operations streamlined and private. Profitability is a problem for auction houses.

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Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

The Art Newspaper

His revolutionary 2022 NFT project Tree of Life with Sotheby’s—a one-of-one non-fungible token accompanied by a mural-sized archival pigment print—launched during a period of intense global criticism of digital assets, channelled all proceeds to Instituto Terra’s reforestation efforts. Art planted trees just as technology served nature.