Artnet News – Auction Houses Battle For $1 Billion of Art
French fashion designer Agnes Trouble known for her fashion brand “Agnes B.” poses during a photo session at the Fab in Paris on January 27, 2020. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)
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Designer Agnès b. Is the Latest Fashion Tycoon to Open a Private Museum in Paris. But She Still Wants to Keep Her Distance From the Art World
The museum’s unlikely location inside a social housing complex is testament to designer’s desire to reject elitism.
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Auctions
The White-Glove Sale of the Johnson Publishing Company’s Art Collection Shatters Expectations, With 85 Percent of Lots Setting New Records
The sale marks a final chapter for the venerable Chicago-based publishing company, which declared bankruptcy last year.
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NEW YORK, NY – JANUARY 20: People attend an auction of American Furniture and Folk Art and John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America” at Christie’s Auction House on January 20, 2012 in New York City. “The Birds of America”, which depicts more than 400 life-size North American species in four volumes, was purchased at auction Friday for $7.9 million. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Auctions
Blockbuster Collections Could Deliver More Than $1 Billion at Auction This Spring. For the Major Houses, the Race Is On
Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips are all competing for the Macklowe and Donald Marron collections.
