For 2024, Art & Object will be covering more news for our readers. We begin with a news round-up of the top recent stories that we think you will be interested in learning more about. These are gathered from art and news sites around the internet and include links to the original stories for those who would like to read more. Enjoy!
The Most Expensive Works Sold at Auction in 2023
The pandemic may have been a destructive force to some, but art auctions saw market highs. The figures, which were in part thanks to the wildly lucrative divorce of real estate mogul Harry Maclowe, meant that the 10 most expensive works sold at auction (not all of which came from that sale) would go for prices exceeding the $50 million mark. In the end, Harry and Linda’s collection would make Sotheby’s a total of $922 million dollars over a two year installation, regarded as the most valuable single-owner collection ever conducted. However, the most expensive work sold at auction, Pablo Picasso‘s Femme à la Montre, haled from the collection of Emily Fisher Landau. Ultimately, the top 10 works sold at auction in 2023 brought in $660 million versus the $1.1 billion made for the top 10 in 2022. Read the full story at ARTnews.
Henri Matisse and Georgia O’Keeffe Enter the Public Domain with Mickey and Minnie
A new year means a new heap of treasure. In 2024 we get unbridled access to works like Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, the experimental novel, Nadja, by André Breton, and America’s oldest picture book still in print, Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag. Alongside these notable works is Disney’s iconic animated short Steamboat Willie, M.C Escher’s Tower of Babel, East River from the Shelton Hotel by Georgia O’Keeffe, and the ink drawing Odalisque au fauteuil turc by Henri Matisse. Read the full story at artnet News.
