For decades, a small but mighty painting by the artist Piet Mondrian has greeted visitors in the grand vestibule of the Park Avenue apartment where the...
A 311-year-old Stradivarius violin sold for $10 million at Sotheby’s on Friday, in a closely watched auction that drew interest from investors, collectors and classical musicians....
His rival, the Christie’s chairman Peter Chance, was a former army officer, and stuffier. His firm fostered client loyalty by retaining staff, but suffered from “lackluster...
When art works fetch spectacular auction prices, like the record $450.3 million for Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” in 2017, the world’s focus turns for a...
