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AO Auction Preview – London: Post-War and Contemporary Art Sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, February 14-17, 2012

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Breaking: Qatar purchase of $250-$300 million ‘Card Players’ by Paul Cézanne is most expensive art sale in history

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

AO Auction Results: Old Masters Sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s January 25-26, 2012

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

AO Onsite Auction Results – New York: Contemporary Art Evening Sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s Bring in Over $550M, Several Artist Records Set

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

AO On Site (with Photoset) – Paris: FIAC 2011 Opening Day Review, October 21, 2011

Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

AO Auction Results – London: Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale Realizes $28M; 20th Century Italian Art Sale Brings in $34M

Friday, October 14th, 2011

AO On Site – Auction Results – “Artists for Haiti” Benefit Auction at Christie’s New York Organized by Ben Stiller and David Zwirner Raises $13.7M For Charity

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Friday, September 9th, 2011

AO Breaking News – Obituary and News Summary: Lucian Freud dies at the age of 88 in London

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

AO Auction Results – London: Christie’s Contemporary Evening Sale Realizes $127M, Bacon & Warhol Are Top Lots

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

AO On Site at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011: The Courtauld Institute’s “One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy,” through November 27, 2011

Saturday, June 18th, 2011

AO Onsite Auction Results – New York: Christie’s Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale Totals $301.7M; Warhol & Rothko Are Top Lots

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

AO Auction Preview – New York: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips de Pury to Hold Contemporary Art Sales May 9-12, 2011

Monday, May 9th, 2011

AO Onsite Auction Results – New York: Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale Realizes $156M on May 4, 2011; Monet & Vlaminck are Top Lots

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

Go See – London: Bill Viola ‘The Quintet of the Unseen’ at Blain Southern Gallery through March 26, 2011

Friday, March 18th, 2011

AO Auction Preview – London: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips de Pury to Hold Contemporary Art Auctions February 15-17, 2011

Monday, February 14th, 2011

AO Auction Preview: Picasso and Gauguin Lead Impressionist & Modern Art Sales at Sotheby's & Christie's in London February 7-8th, 2011

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Go See – New York: Robert Rauschenberg at Gagosian Gallery West 21st Street, October 29 through December 18, 2010

Monday, November 8th, 2010

AO Auction Preview: Phillips de Pury, Sotheby’s, and Christie’s to hold Contemporary Art Auctions in New York beginning tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 8th through Wednesday, Nov. 10th

Sunday, November 7th, 2010

AO Auction Results – London: Christie’s Oct. 14th Contemporary Art Auction in London Brings in 19.6 million GBP, Hirst Sells Under Presale Estimate

Friday, October 15th, 2010

AO Auction Results: Christie’s sale of Artwork and Ephemera from Lehman Brothers fetches a further $2.6 million for the collapsed bank’s creditors in London, September 29th, 2010

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

AO AUCTION PREVIEW: HIGH HOPES FOR SOTHEBY’S & CHRISTIE’S CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTIONS THIS WEEK

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

AO Auction Results: Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Works; a large number of works fail to sell at the most valuable art auction ever held in the U.K., June 23, 2010

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

AO Auction Results: Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonham’s and MacDougall’s Russian Art Sales, London June 7- 10, 2010

Saturday, June 12th, 2010