Roy Lichtenstein’s ‘Sleeping Girl’ Sells for $44.8 Million

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Recently, Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl from 1964 sold for a record-breaking $44.8 million USD at Sotheby’s Evening Sale of Contemporary Art. The comic book-inspired and postwar American art phenomenon beat last year’s record sale of $...

Original Apple Contract Signed by Steve Jobs Fetches $1.6 Million at Sotheby’s

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The original contract that made Apple into a technological institution, and signed by founders Steve Jobs, Stephen Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, just fetched a cool $1.6 million USD at a Sotheby’s auction. This staggering number was ten times the a...

Damien Hirst’s Auction Gamble

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With much news and controversy surrounding today’s opening of Damien Hirst’s massive auction Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, The Wall Street Journal offers a perspective on the massive undertaking. With millions of dollars at stake,...

Auction (Red) by Sotheby’s

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Damien Hirst along with Bono from the band U2 has organized Auction (Red) which is an art auction at the Sotheby’s auction house starting February 14th. The proceeds of the auction will go towards the fighting diseases like Aids, Malaria an...