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Femme assise près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932). Courtesy of Christie's Images, Ltd. The latest run of socially distanced mostly online evening sales reached its peak this evening when Picasso’s Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932) sold to a client on the phone with Christie’s specialist Vanessa Fusco for $103.4 million after a protracted bidding war with her colleague Max Carter. Offered as part of the $481.1 million Christie’s 20th-century evening auction (the hammer total was $414.4 million), it was a shocking display of bravura in the sales room, ...

But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple

Auctioneer Oliver Barker holding court over Sotheby's global e-auctions. Courtesy of Sotheby's. The art trade is defined by far more than its uppermost echelon. But in an unprecedented year when virtually ever major auction went… well, virtual, top prices serve as a valuable benchmark—and an indication that the world’s wealthiest did not view 2020 as a roadblock to spending big money on art. If we’re judging by auction prices alone, though, the market was still considerably less frothy at the high end this year than in 2019. Last year, nine of the 10 priciest lots brought over $50 mi...

Order Reprints Christie's auctioneer Adrien Meyer during the sale of Cy Twombly's Untitled (Bolsena), 1969, which sold for US$38.7 million, with fees, at its October live-streamed sale. Christie's Images Ltd. 2020 Revenues at Christie’s are likely to end the year 25% below 2019 levels amid challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic.  The auction house, which is a privately held unit of Francois Pinault’s Groupe Artémis, will “probably record sales” of £3.4 billion to £3.5 billion (US$4.5 billion to US$4.7 billion) this year once the final auctions of 2020 are...