Condition Sale Sculpture 
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 24, 2025
Photo courtesy of Gary Kirchenbauer In 1989, an unpromising-sounding but alluring marble sculpture of a female nude came up for sale at a Christie’s auction held at an English country house in Hertfordshire. “It Wengraf handled the sale. Noelle, the assistant curator of European paintings and sculpture, 1500-1800.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 18, 2025
White Cube sold Michael Armitage’s 2015 painting In the garden for $3.2m, while Gagosian placed a large lobster sculpture by Jeff Koons for “seven figures”. Pace’s Pablo Picasso painting Homme à la pipe assis et amour (1969), priced at $30m, is still on reserve, though the gallery did say it sold a 1964 bronze by Louise Nevelson for $850,000.
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The Art Newspaper
JUNE 27, 2025
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.”
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 20, 2025
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 16, 2025
Among the highest prices seen in this section are Lonnie Holley’s sculptures, brought by Edel Assanti, at $85,000. Art Basel is this year introducing a section called Premiere, which invites galleries to exhibit presentations of work made in the past five years by up to three artists, staged around a loose curatorial concept.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 17, 2025
So we’re hoping we can do some sales and recoup that.” October is presenting work by seven artists, including the Ghanaian photographer James Barnor and Zimbabwe’s Xanthe Somers, whose hand-woven sculptures reference themes such as women’s labour and the impact of “eco-racism” on makers in her home country.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 17, 2025
When I make some sales, I will typically try to take a portion of that and buy a work from another artist,” she says. Her welded aluminium sculpture Midnight (2024) is the largest of six commissioned for her show at Storm King Art Center in New York state last year.
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