A work by Mark Rothko has the highest estimate in 'Robert Mnuchin: Collector at Heart Evening Auction' at Sotheby's New York on May 14. The total pre-sale estimate is $124.9m.
A work by Donald Judd has the highest estimate in 'Defined Space: The Collection of Henry S. McNeil, Jr.' auction at Christie's New York on May 20. The total pre-sale estimate is $21.77m.
Works by Wang Shouren and Attributed to Zhang Jizhi were among the 64% of lots selling above their low estimate at Christie's 'Fine Chinese Classical Paintings and Calligraphy' auction on April 28 in Hong Kong. The sale totaled $17.07m (HKD133.8m), meeting the pre-sale estimate.
The Museo del Prado is storing a portrait of Philip IV, which has been tentatively attributed to Velázquez, that is linked to a divorce settlement between steel magnate José María Aristrain and his ex-wife Gema Navarro.
Erwin Bankowski and Karolina Bankowska's guilty plea exposes a multi-million-dollar fraud where over 200 elaborate fakes, encompassing works by artists from Banksy to Warhol, were commissioned in Poland and accompanied by meticulously fabricated backstories.
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