Nov 24th, 2025 - The Venezuela-born, New York–based collector and patron proactively bridges ecosystems, connecting artists and galleries, helping friends build their collections and supporting talent when the market falls short. The art world has always loved labels and for all involved to stay in their lanes: collectors don't become dealers, and gallerists don't become curators. Every role is neatly crystallized within its assigned category. But Venezuela-born and New York-based collector Ronald Harrar ...
Nov 24th, 2025 - Light is the greatest threat to 19th-century masterpieces like James Ensor's The Intrigue , study finds. The emergence of synthetic pigments in the 19th century had an immense impact on the art world, particularly the availability of emerald-green pigments, prized for their intense brilliance by such masters as Paul Cézanne, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and Claude Monet. The downside was that these pigments often degraded over time, resulting in cracks and uneven surfaces and the ...
Nov 24th, 2025 - Last week, when all eyes were on the $2.2 billion marquee sales in New York , Sotheby's achieved another historic result in Hong Kong with the white-glove sale of masterpieces from Japan's Okada Museum of Art , which generated HK$688 million ($88 million) across 125 works. Staged as a single-owner sale during the Asian Art sales series, the auction saw 19 lots surpass the $10 million mark. Topping the sale was Kitagawa Utamaro 's monumental panoramic ukiyo-e masterpiece Fukagawa in Snow ( ...
Nov 20th, 2025 - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (la cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — breaks the previous record in this category, set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," sold for $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo's ...
Nov 20th, 2025 - Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis The art market's surprising recovery continued yesterday (19 November) at Rockefeller Centre in New York, with Christie's 21st-century evening sale hauling in $99.5m, or $123.5m with fees. The result eclipsed last November's equivalent sale that realised $106.5m with fees. Last night's tally before fees fell midway between pre-sale expectations (calculated ...
Nov 19th, 2025 - Flattering visions of America are not exactly a dime a dozen these days, but " Wayne Thiebaud. American Still Life " (on view through January 18, 2026) in London at the Courtauld Gallery provides one such respite from the present turmoil. The Californian artist (1920–2021) broke onto the scene in the 1960s with depictions of lavish Boston creme pies and cheerful gumball dispensers, refashioning what was worthy of being commemorated in paint. In fact, Thiebaud saw his work as being in ...
Nov 18th, 2025 - Gustav Klimt's portrait of Elisabeth Lederer is now the second-most-expensive work ever sold at auction. Another of the night's star lots, Maurizio Cattelan's solid gold toilet, elicited just one bid but still made a splash at $12.1m Gustav Klimt's six-foot-tall painting Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer (Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16) sold for $205m ($236.3m with fees) at its auction debut at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday night (18 November). The painting is now the second-most valuable ...
Nov 17th, 2025 - Picture: Alte Nationalgalerie Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin opened a new exhibition at the end of last month dedicated to works on loan from the Scharf Collection. According to their website: The Scharf Collection, one of the most significant private art collections in Germany, is being showcased in a large-scale exhibition for the very first time. The collection primarily consists of French art from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as international ...
Nov 13th, 2025 - From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don't just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces are centuries old, they continue to fascinate art buffs and collectors alike, with each piece telling a captivating story. Whether they're on display for the whole world to see or hidden behind closed doors, these paintings prove that art has the power to create and sometimes, even change history. ...
Oct 18th, 2025 - Morgan Library & Museum, New York Famed impressionist painter's lesser-seen drawings are the focus of a major new exhibition that invites us into the stages of his artistic process is luminous colours and sensual brushwork adorn countless mugs, posters and tote bags as well as blockbuster exhibitions . But the commodification of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his fellow impressionist painters has been missing something. Renoir was an accomplished draftsman who produced a distinguished but largely ...
Apr 11th, 2025 - Eugène Boudin at the Musée Marmottan Monet Video: Musée Marmottan Monet Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: have just this week opened a new exhibition dedicated to Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) drawn in-part from a single private collection. According to their website: Collector Yann Guyonwarc'h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist's career is ...
Mar 19th, 2025 - His 'Sunflowers' painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too Van Gogh's pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold privately through a dealer, usually very discreetly—but in a typical year less than a handful are publicly auctioned. Here we record the ten most expensive Van Gogh paintings that have sold at auction, all at over $50m. 10. Fields near Les Alpilles , $52m, 2022 Fields near ...
