Aug 13, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
A thrift store find has turned out to potentially be a $20,000 windfall for an art lover in British Columbia. Stephen Burgess is a thrifty man, but one who loves to fill his home with art. He regularly browses secondhand stores for art, he told his local paper. But...
Jul 28, 2021 | Art, Auctions, New York, News & Trending
Victor Langlois is 18, and in only 7 years has gone from a runaway youth to a millionaire, even before his art sold in auction at Christie’s for $2.16 million. Langlois, who goes by FEWOCiOUS online, sold five lots of art on Wednesday, July 21. Each lot included...
Jun 4, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending, Profiles
An art feud worth over $1 billion is currently being fought in courts around the globe. Yves Bouvier is a Swiss art dealer who buys and sells art for staggering amounts of money. Dmitry Rybolovlev is a Russian billionaire who made his fortune selling fertilizer to...
Mar 26, 2021 | Art, Auctions, News & Trending
Most of the over 2,100 pieces of art left behind by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh are in public hands, which is wonderful. Anyone can go to a museum and see most of his works – the largest collection of them are in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds...
Mar 10, 2021 | Art, Auctions, Culture
At some point in the 1980s, looters swiped a stone sculpture of a Hindu diety from a small shrine in Nepal. After several years on the black market, it appeared at auction at Sotheby’s. Despite a complete lack of provenance, the art auction house sold it to a...
Feb 25, 2021 | Art, Auctions
Even the illustrious, ivory tower world of private art sales took a hard hit from 2020. And maybe it’s a little of a relief to see that even the unimaginably wealthy have felt the need to tighten their belts this year too. The most expensive piece of art to sell...
