The NFT business may have lost some of its lustre recently, but Christie’s clearly thinks that’s just a blip. It has launched an investment fund with “several million dollars” to out into emerging tech companies in the business of “creating [ … ]
Christie’s first-half sales figures suggest that the global pandemic has been inconvenient rather than catastrophic for the auction market. Christie’s announced £2.5 billion in sales for the first half of 2021, up 13 percent on the first half of 2019 [ … ]
The news that Christie’s was reducing its activities in Dubai was rather buried in the press release for its (pretty good) half-year-results: “after 11 years of holding bi-annual sale seasons in the Middle East and establishing an international platform for [ … ]
Christie’s and its clients must have been happy with its Art Week auctions in March. The sales realised a total of $13,437,688, and the Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art auction ($8.1m of the total) included new world auction records for 18 [ … ]
Christie’s upcoming spring auction of Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai will be led by a 6m long painting by the Palestinian Ismail Shammout. Odyssey of a People – estimated at $800,000-900,000 – was painted in 1980; reading from right to [ … ]
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