Kelly Crow @KellyCrowWSJ Twitter profile

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Kelly Crow

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3 years

Wikipedia Editors Have Voted Not to Classify NFTs as Art, Sparking Outrage in the Crypto Community

The group chose not to include Beeple and Pak on the free encyclopedia’s list of the most expensive art sales by living artists.

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. @Sothebys starts bidding for this Basquiat at the artist's $57m record, then 3 bidders jump in, up to $68m....

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RIP I.M. Pei, who has died at age 102. What a life he led and how grateful we are for the gorgeous structures he left behind.

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@Sothebys wraps up its cty sale that will be remembered for that $12.1m Banksy monkey business 🙈

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Breaking scoop! After ‘life-changing’ visit, Kanye West pledges $10 million to James Turrell’s art project

Kanye West Donates $10 Million to Art Project

Rapper Kanye West is donating $10 million to artist James Turrell’s Roden Crater Project in an extinct volcano in Arizona.

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New record for a living artist as David Hockney's 'Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)' sells for $80m hammer, or $90.3m w/ @ChristiesInc fees. Bids started at $18m but ratcheted to a dogged 2-way war btw phones held by Marc Porter, who won, & Katherine Arnold who UB

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“It’s an incredible piece of history, & losing it was a colossal mistake for NASA.” How @nasa lost the moon via @WSJ

Nancy Lee Carlson Bought a Piece of the Moon—NASA Really Wants It Back

A zippered pouch containing lunar dust scooped up by Neil Armstrong was forgotten for decades before turning up at a government auction. It’s potentially worth millions.

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Making hay! A blonde woman sitting in @Sothebys back row & wielding paddle #989 just paid $97m hammer ($110.7m w/ fees) a record for Claude Monet’s “Haystacks” — a record for the artist or any impressionist @Sothebys Go to my insta story @KellyCrowWSJ to watch the sale live @wsj

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Medieval ivory chess piece of a prison guard, just sold for £735K ($927,423) over low est @Sothebys London. Piece is one of 5 thought missing from famous Lewis chessmen set that helped inspire lots of folklore (inc Harry Potter)

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Record set for a work by a living artist as dealer Bob Mnuchin, father of the U.S. Treasury Secretary, wins this $80m hammer ($91m w/ @ChristiesInc fees) Jeff Koons’ “Rabbit.” Price tops $90.3m paid last fall for a David Hockney

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Seller who paid $398.5k for this Basquiat head just resold it for $13.1m @Sothebys —a record high for a work on paper by the artist and the highest price ever bid online for art. It’s also a 3,187% return on investment.

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'We found it rolled up in a tube': Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years

Silkscreen from Warhol’s Death and Disaster series, which cost $2,500, sat in storage among singer’s artefacts

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2 years

"Match made in heaven, right?" Black diamond buyer @sothebys is Richard Scheuler aka Richard Heart, founder of HEX crypto token #Hexicans

Richard Heart

@RichardHeartWin

2 years

I won the world's largest cut diamond for our #HEXican cultural heritage! It'll be called the diamond, it weighs 555.55 carats and has 55 facets. Congratulations to all you #HEXicans with #5555 club tattoos. Let's all win together!

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Black diamond hammer price jump explained per @Sothebys : While live bidding appeared to stop at 23 bids on the site, company says 6 additional/absentee bids came in at £1.7m, 1.8, 1.9, 2, 2.2, 2.4, £2.6m = 31 bids in all. Winner at £3.1m or $4.2m, w/ fees, still @RichardHeartWin

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Breaking! ⁦ @beeple ⁩ reaches the next phase in his art-world ascent — his art will be shown alongside Francis Bacon, Kader Attia & Julie Mehretu in a museum show at Castello di Rivoli cc ⁦⁦ @kukulabanze ⁩ ⁦ @la_Biennale ⁩

The Latest Sign That Beeple Has Truly Arrived: An Exhibit at an Italian Art Museum

Beeple, the digital artist who started the NFT craze, makes his museum debut at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin.

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4 years

. @Sothebys just sold Rembrandt's tiny self-portrait for $18.8 million in London.

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7 years

The cell phones come out as Basquiat creeps to $98m @Sothebys

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. @beeple updated the Explorer in his HUMAN ONE sculpture so that he's wearing Ukrainian colors and walking through a war zone. @kukulabanze @ChristiesInc @GouzerLoic

Ryan Zurrer

@kukulabanze

2 years

HUMAN ONE has been updated by @beeple to show the Explorer, adorned in #Ukraine 's colours, walking through a war zone. Also, we'll have an update soon on the HUMAN ONE's first stop on our planet. It's going to be really wild. I'm very excited to share...

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Breaking! Shalom Meckenzie, largest shareholder of sports-betting outfit @DraftKings , was the winner of that $11.8m “Alien” CryptoPunk #7523 in @Sothebys #NativelyDigital NFT auction.

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“Pak is our Picasso.” Crypto art lovers bid up mysterious artist @muratpak in @Sothebys $17 million marathon #NFT sale, the house's first. via @WSJ

Digital Artist Pak Sells NFT Works for $17 Million at Sotheby’s

The three-day auction featured works that show a single pixel, can be destroyed or switched by their owners. ‘Pak is our Picasso.’

www.wsj.com

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6 months

🚨🚨 Breaking news: A NY federal jury just cleared @Sothebys of any fraud allegations made against it by the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. Again, Sotheby's did not aid or abet any fraud connected to Yves Bouvier, the jury found. More to come!

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Second-highest price for a Picasso! This 1932 portrait just sold for $139.4 million over its $120m estimate to a phoner wielded by @brookemlampley

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. @GettyMuseum says it won that $53m Gustave Caillebotte, “Young Man at a Window,” sold a bit ago @christiesinc

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Tokyo e-retailer Yusaku Maezawa just paid $110.5 million for a Basquiat @Sothebys , besting Warhol record via @WSJ

Basquiat Skull Painting Sells for $110.5 Million

A turquoise-blue painting topped by colorful slashes and a menacing black skull by Jean-Michel Basquiat sold for $110.5 million at Sotheby’s New York—setting a new record high for any U.S. artist at...

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That’s all, folks. @Sotheby ’s, once the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, ceased trading and today it begins operating as a private company. @WSJ

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GAVEL! @etyoung just paid $1,355,555 for @muratpak Pixel @Sothebys

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2 years

NFT artists @XCOPYART , @IamOliveAllen @Krista_Kim have committed to donating sale proceeds to charities supporting Ukrainian relief efforts. @SuperRare Labs will match the 15% commission that the SuperRareDAO receives from all sales, up to $50K

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Brendan Murphy’s $1.1m @BoonjiProject NFT “The Future Has Not Yet Been Written" was bought @artmiamifairs by real-estate developer Kevin Mahaney for the Mahaney Arts Center @Middlebury College Museum of Art. cc @graw_art

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Vincent van Gogh’s cypress view sells for $62m hammer, or $71.4m w/ @ChristiesInc fees to art adviser Hugo Nathan with Asian underbidding

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Is Pak the future of art? ⁦ @muratpak ⁩ has long been hailed by design and crypto enthusiasts as a digital shaman. “I’m sure art purists will be put off by the artist,” says one crypto investor. “But we see him as one of us.”

Who Is Pak? The Artist’s Fans Couldn’t Care Less

Sotheby’s plucked the anonymous artist out of a new NFT canon cropping up online. But the artist’s social-media avatar is a zero, nickname is “The Nothing”: “I like being gray.”

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Shifting taste..or correcting market? Rothko estimated at $30m just hammered to Asia for $19m @Sothebys

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$60 million or more: Rene Magritte's 1961 "L'Empire des Lumieres" will be sold by heirs of the artist's muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet @sothebys in March with an estimate of $60 million, first time to market.

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2 years

Paintings by Man Ray have sold at auction for as much as $5.8 million, but until this @ChristiesInc sale none of his photographs had ever sold for over $3.1 million. Now his "Violon d'Ingres" just flew past them all, selling for $12.4m--a new record for any photograph

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7 years

Lol @IKEAUSA latest #davinci ad

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This is awful.

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So much hate, so much stupidity

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Breaking! Andy Warhol sells for $195 million @ChristiesInc , skirting under its $200m estimate but a new record for any American artist at auction

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Record for Joan Mitchell! @christiesinc rep based in Asia wins this Mitchell for $25m hammer or $29.1m. Welcome to the $20m club—it’s been waiting for you.

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Remember that @tezos booth @ArtBasel where folks could mint their own @quasimondo NFT? Tezos said nearly 5,000 NFTs were minted as a result. .

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Fever looks like 8 bidders losing their minds over this elfin Vincent Van Gogh, est up to $7m and winds up hammering $40.5m @ChristiesInc

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RECORD: Rene Magritte's "Empire of Light" just sold to an Asia bidder for £51.5 million hammer or £59.4m ($79.7m) with fees @sothebys / Second-most valuable painting ever sold at auction in Europe

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Dealer Larry @Gagosian —bidding for himself or a client—won the $195 million Andy Warhol tonight @ChristiesInc . Any more intel? I’m all ears.

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🚨Breaking update: Buyer of tonight’s $13.6m Felix Gonzalez-Torres lightbulb piece is Japan’s Pola Museum of Art, @ChristiesInc says.

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Olly lobbing bids between an Asian phoner & Nick McLean for this Basquiat, up to $95m @Sothebys

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🚨Breaking! Gustav Klimt's last portrait of a "Lady with a Fan" just sold for $108.4 million @sothebys to a Hong Kong collector via Patti Wong--setting a new record for ANY work of art auctioned in Europe. Topped its $80m estimate thanks to three bidders, inc two from Asia.

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. @Sothebys just sold this "Venus and Adonis" recently attributed to Titian & workshop for £9.5m hammer or £11.2m ($13.6m) against a presale estimate of £8m-£12m.

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Breaking! ⁦ @ChristiesInc ⁩ is known for auctioning Van Goghs. Now it wants to play venture capitalist.

Christie’s Launches Venture-Capital Arm Focused on Tech in Art, Crypto

Amid a strong art market, the auction house is plunging into tech startups at a time when other venture capitalists are pulling back.

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Go see the newly reinstalled/ transformed Northwest Coast Hall @AMNH which invited indigenous curators to contextualize their own cultural history w/ smart, sometimes heartbreaking truths. It’s riveting!

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Video! Watch my live sale of Jeff Koons’s $91m “Rabbit”—now the priciest piece ever sold by a living artist @wsj @ChristiesInc

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$85 million: That’s how much this Francis Bacon sold for @Sothebys above its $80m high est with fees. Underbidder clicked up to $73.1m, most anyone has ever tried to bid digitally for art. Phoner who won remains anonymous. 🥓 🔥

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“I’m just trying to protect her from the big bad wolves.” — Larry Gagosian on this season’s breakout artist Anna Weyant (You’re going to read this one.)

Three Years Ago, Her Art Sold for $400 at the Beach. Now It Fetches Up To $1.6 Million at Auction

Anna Weyant, a new art star whose work evokes a millennial Botticelli, was discovered on Instagram. She’s also dating her dealer, Larry Gagosian.

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Sometimes markets for recently gone masters are tough and the great Frank Stella is the latest case in pt. His offering @phillipsauction was estimated to sell for $5m but garnered no bids and went unsold.

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Richard Feigen, first to show Ray Johnson, early to show Beuys & Baldessari, and the first dealer to be kind to this art reporter way back when, died yesterday. RIP to one of the best.

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. @christiesinc owner Francois Pinault & his son have pledged € 100m to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral

French Billionaires And Corporations Have Pledged At Least 600 Million Euros To Rebuild The Notre...

Luxury goods tycoons and major corporations cited national pride and culture in making the pledges.

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RECORD: Rene Magritte's "Empire of Light" just sold to an Asia bidder for £51.5 million hammer, besting bids from the Middle East and Europe @sothebys

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. @Sothebys London will ask $80m in June for Gustav Klimt's "Lady with a Fan," his last portrait & one seen in his studio at his death. Price could reset record for painting in Europe but Paul Allen's "Birch Forest" sold for $104.6m. Do you think this gal can top some trees?

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Zurich-based Ryan Zurrer, @1OF1_art and Bicayne Bay-based @pablorfraile & his wife @DesireeCasoni Casoni donated @refikanadol ’s "Unsupervised" to the museum’s permanent collection.

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Auction debut (w/ an NFT attached!): Tyler Hobbs' "Fidenza #724 " digital pigment print on paper w/ token ID: 78000724 / wallet address: 0xf8BE957f65E67Fb0342992A51C30290d5758F880 It sells for £290K just under its £300K high est @ChristiesInc . Update me later w/ the winner?

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Blue-chip NFT revival? @dmitricherniak "Ringers #879 (The Goose)" sold $6.2 million, 3x high est & the 2nd-highest price for generative art. Congrats to buyer @punk6529 ; $10.9m overall @Sothebys sale was 100% sold, w/ @tylerxhobbs also selling $2.1m in Fidenza abstracts.

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Mark Rothko’s “No. 7” sells $82.5 million w/ @Sothebys fees to Asia. Just below the $86.8m title holder.

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2 years

We won! Thanks, @deadlineclub @spj_tweets @WSJ @YaelKohen

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What a scream! @Sothebys just sold this 13-foot-long frieze piece by Edvard Munch for £14.5m over its £12m low estimate -- drew 4 bidders and sold to a phoner repped by Simon Stock

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E.T., phone home--or at least find out why @Sothebys 555.55-carat carbonado diamond just sold in Dubai for $2.3m, well under its $4m low estimate.

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Diego Rivera's 1928 "La Bordadora (or The Embroiderer)," rediscovered in a New Orleans collection was just bought by @MFAH for $4.1m. @christiesinc estimated the painting would only sell for up to $900K.

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In a bit of analog theater, @christiesinc briefly dimmed the saleroom lights to oohs & ahhs as bidding opened for Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ string of lights, “Untitled (America #3 ),” which drew 2 Asian bidders & sold to Japan for $11.5m hammer or $13.6m w/ fees—an artist record.

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One-bid win: We all got to watch this Francis Bacon, which was guaranteed, sell to its previously arranged bidder for $24.5m after no one else chimed in. I see why sellers line up these risk-offsetting deals, but man, it sucks up any drama. Est: $30m-$50m @Sothebys

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Art (market) appreciation as we start this surreal sale: Rene Magritte's "Souvenir de Voyage" sold for $645K in 2000, resold for $1m in 2009 and now the Heidenreichs just resold it again for £4.6m hammer (or roughly $5.6m ) + @christiesinc fees.

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Pioneering artist Sam Gilliam died Saturday at age 88, according to @PaceGallery and David Kordansky. Honored I got to once speak with him in his D.C. studio.

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Major test for NFT art titans: @christiesinc charity sale June 21-28 organized by @kukubanze will help psychedelic med research feat @Beeple @refikanadol @Mad_Dog_Jones @ix_shells @SarahMeyohas @sixnfive @maximzhestkov @wlopwangling @reisingerandres @fvckrender @dustinyellin +more

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Basquiat’s self portrait sells for $39m hammer or $42m w/ fees compared to a $40m-$60m est @Sothebys

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RIP to an original.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

@ChristoandJC

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Christo passed away today, on May 31, 2020, at his home in New York City. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have always made clear that their artworks in progress be continued after their deaths. L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris) is still on track for Sept. 18–Oct. 3, 2021.

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Wow, I’m 😍! This young woman created 784 paintings while hiding from the Nazis

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Paris Louvre 'will not show' world's most expensive painting amid doubts over authenticity via @telegraphnews

Paris Louvre 'will not show' world's most expensive painting amid doubts over authenticity

The Salvator Mundi was described as “one of fewer than 20 known paintings by Leonardo” when it sold for a record $450 million (£342 million) in 2017, only to disappear without trace amid increasing...

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$85 million! Asian bidder repped by @phillipsauction in Taipei won this Jean-Michel Basquiat over $70m estimate—for a 48% return on @yousuckMZ six-year investment in the art.

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Repeat after me, NFT world: “The artist retains image copyright.” Basquiat NFT withdrawn from @opensea auction after artist’s estate intervenes :

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. @GettyMuseum just paid @Sothebys $30.5m for Orazio Gentileschi's "Danae."

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Julie Mehretu’s ‘Dissident Score’ sold on @artsy for $6.5m, setting a new auction record for the artist and doubling its low estimate. Sale also marks the highest price ever achieved on sold by the online platform. Six bidders competed for the work; winner remains anonymous.

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Breaking: Hours before @ChristiesInc Getty estate sale, the couple’s Canaletto “Venice, the Grand Canal looking East with Santa Maria della Salute” est to sell for $6m+ has been snapped up in a private sale by Fine Art Museums of SF @deyoungmuseum @legionofhonor

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Anna Weyant, a new art star whose work evokes a millennial Botticelli, was discovered on Instagram. She’s also dating her dealer, Larry @Gagosian . Both speak exclusively to ⁦ @WSJ ⁩.

Three Years Ago, Her Art Sold for $400 at the Beach. Now It Fetches Up To $1.6 Million at Auction

Anna Weyant, a new art star whose work evokes a millennial Botticelli, was discovered on Instagram. She’s also dating her dealer, Larry Gagosian.

www.wsj.com

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Two bidders vying for this Claude Monet coming to auction for the first time after being in a family collection for three decades, up to $49m with @brookemlampley @sothebys

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Whoa: Sales of work by Pablo Picasso at auction between 2008 and mid-2022 totaled $6.23 billion—representing a larger share of the market than all women, said Burns Halperin report.

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Wow. The Alsdorfs bought this Rene Magritte four years ago after it went unsold at $6m low est @Sothebys in 2005 but Marc Porter just sold it to his @ChristiesInc phoner for $17m hammer

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Breaking! The first auction of a possible Caravaggio in at least 40 years took on even more mystery Monday when a private buyer stepped in & snatched up the work, canceling its Thursday auction. Buyer paid an undisclosed sum, pledges to put it in a public museum soon. See @WSJ

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Record for Mark Tansey, whose “Triumph Over Mastery II” draws at least 3 dogged bidders and hammers $10 million over $8m low est and surpassing artist’s $7.4m auction high @Sothebys

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"The Empire of Light," a famous painting by René Magritte, sold for $79.75 million @sothebys , setting a new world auction record for the Surrealist artist in its first time on the market. Story by Jennifer Calfas via @WSJ

A Rare Magritte Painting, Created for His Muse, Fetches $79.75 Million

The Surrealist artist’s 1961 “The Empire of Light” is now second-most valuable painting in U.S. dollars ever sold at auction in Europe.

www.wsj.com

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Owning NFTs used to be a status symbol. Now it’s how you show them off. “I don’t want to look like we live in Best Buy.”

NFT Art Exists in the Digital World. Collectors Want to Put Them on the Wall.

Swiping through a vast inventory of images on a cell phone or laptop isn’t doing it anymore for digital art owners.

www.wsj.com

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Kevin McCoy's "Quantum" sells $1.4m. @pablorfraile says he just won @muratpak "Fade" for $528,200 @Sothebys "Natively Digital" sale: "He's always innovating, it's an absolutely masterpiece."

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On the TV set formerly known as the auction house @Sothebys

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. @KentMonkman just unveiled a pair of jaw-dropping works in the lobby of the @metmuseum . Here's "Resurgence of the People," courtesy the Cree artist:

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Damian Medina, founder of Token Frame, just paid $1.4 million for @muratpak 's "Switch" piece @Sothebys .

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3 years

The Switch by @muratpak . Less than 15 minutes left. Good luck to the bidders:

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@KellyCrowWSJ

2 years

RECORD: This art market craves novelty, and this Jared French is delivering, with multiple bidders going for this "Double," which hammers $850K over $300K high est @Sothebys

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Kelly Crow

@KellyCrowWSJ

9 years

Who is the Chinese buyer who paid @ChristiesInc $170.4m for a Modigliani? @longmuseum founder Liu Yiqian via @WSJ

Christie’s Sells Modigliani’s ‘Reclining Nude’ for $170.4 Million

Christie’s International sold Amedeo Modigliani’s portrait of a “Reclining Nude” to Chinese collectors Liu Yiqian and his wife, Wang Wei, for $170.4 million, the second-highest price ever paid at...

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Kelly Crow

@KellyCrowWSJ

1 year

. @sothebys sold $205 million last night—inc a record $33m Bourgeois Spider, a $22m Richter, a $29m Basquiat, a $2.5m Henry Taylor $ a $787,400 Justin Caguiat, whose title seems to sum up the art market’s sudden volatility, “To the approach of beauty its body is fungible.”

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Kelly Crow

@KellyCrowWSJ

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Gus Van Sant's watercolor used in "Good Will Hunting" and given to Robin Williams was only estimated to sell for up to $1,500 @Sothebys , but it wound up selling for a whopping $90K. Inscription: "From gus to Robin—turn your boat around! Good for you! Can a-corn!!!"

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Kelly Crow

@KellyCrowWSJ

2 months

Withdrawn! @ChristiesInc says it guaranteed this Brice Marden “Event” would sell for an estimated $30 million but it withdrew the work at the start of the 21st C sale. Curious about this call.

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@KellyCrowWSJ

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Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “The Italian Version of Popeye has no Pork in his Diet,” estimated at $30m, hammered $27.5m to a phone bidder after a dude in the room hollered “Hold!” before ducking out while on his cell. Phoner undeterred. Final price: $32m @christiesinc

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Kelly Crow

@KellyCrowWSJ

4 years

. @Sothebys said its $1.4 million online sale of Banksy prints yesterday was 96% sold by lot, with 85% outperforming its high est, inc "Bomb Love" which drew 22 bids. Almost half of the bidders were new to @Sothebys and and third were under age 40.

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Kelly Crow

@KellyCrowWSJ

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A 29-year-old NFT collector and crypto investor went to ⁦ @ArtBasel ⁩ to see art IRL. We came along for the ride. 🙌🏻 ⁦ @felixmxu ⁩ ⁦📸 by ⁦ @scottymacphoto ⁩

A Day in the Life of an NFT Collector at Art Basel Miami Beach—Told Through Photos

Felix Xu, a leading digital-art collector as well as co-founder and CEO of crypto startups Arpa and Bella Protocol, made his first visit to Art Basel Miami Beach and discovered much to respect.

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Kelly Crow

@KellyCrowWSJ

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It’s Georgia O’Keeffe’s bday and her 12x16 in “Pelvis” just sold for $2.6m over $1.8m high estimate @Sothebys . And yes, Olly flagged her bday from the rostrum ha

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