A collection of rare drawings and paintings by legendary boxer Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) has sold for a knockout $945,524 (£693,788) at Bonhams in New York. Ali’s fruitful art career surprised many after he passed away five years ago from a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
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The Swiss company Art Recognition has carried out AI analysis on Rubens’s Samson and Delilah at the National Gallery of London. The result suggests there is a 91.78 percent probability the painting is by another hand.
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Amir Soleymani, a computer programmer and art collector, is suing the digital art site Nifty Gateway for allegedly changing the terms of an auction moments before it started. The auction sold a non-fungible token (NFT) called ‘Abundance’ by the digital artist Beeple, whose work recently set a new auction record at auction earlier this year.
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Danish artist Jens Haaning has unexpectedly delivered several empty frames to an exhibition as a protest against low pay and modern-day capitalism. He brazenly titled the work ‘Take the Money and Run’.
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To ensure you are prepared for the winning bid at an art auction read our summary of the steps you should take and factors to consider.
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A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo, titled Diego y yo (Diego and I) is set to appear in auction in November at Sotheby’s and, if its estimate of over $30 million is met, will become the most valuable Latin American artwork ever publicly sold. Not only that, it could possibly become the highest price ever for a female artist, if it sells in excess of the current record of $44.4 million – the amount paid for Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1(1932) in 2014.
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An exceptionally rare first edition of Mary Shelley’s (1797-1851) ‘Frankenstein’ has sold for a monstrous $1.17 million (£850,000) at Christie’s, New York. The three-volume set is now the most expensive printed work by a woman ever sold at auction.
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Last week the long-anticipated fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute kicked off with a collaboration featuring French street artist JR. The performance and installation were debuted on co-chair Timothée Chalamet’s Instagram account, before hordes of in vogue celebrities descended on the yellow carpet.
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Wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 square metres of material has begun, fulfilling a 60-year dream of late artists ‘Christo’. The iconic duo, Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935-2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935-2009), passed away before their major installation was unfurled in the heart of Paris.
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For the first time in more than 60 years, Stonehenge will undergo significant restoration to cracks and holes in the stones, in which a penny was hidden in the 1950’s. The prehistoric monument in Wiltshire is one of the most famous landmarks in the UK, having been added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in 1986.
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