![Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119093627im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/richter-auction-150x150.png)
Tuesday Art Market Report: Richter/Clapton Celebrity Sale Sets Record, Warhol Market Flabby Fearing Foundation Sell-off
From the Wall St. Journal: Eric Clapton’s painting by Gerhard Richter, “Abstract Painting (809-4),” sold at Sotheby’s contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for $34.2 million—more than anyone has ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist . . . meanwhile, pop icon Andy Warhol had a bumpy night. Christie’s [...]
![Andy Warhol Foundation to sell off remaining works: Collectors fear market plunge, Auctioneers see online Goldrush](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119093627im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Warhol-Heinz-2-150x150.jpg)
Andy Warhol Foundation to sell off remaining works: Collectors fear market plunge, Auctioneers see online Goldrush
The Andy Warhol Foundation announced its plans to sell off an estimated 20,000 Warhol works it owns, a week after its innovative partnership with Target to license limited edition Warhol-style Campbell soup cans at stores across the US. Christies will manage the sale, which the foundation hopes will net upwards of $100 million. Chairman Michael [...]
![My Painting is Tomorrow’s Painting. Watch and See: Bess in The Limelight as 40 Works Go on Sale to Benefit Anderson Cancer Center](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119093627im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bess-150x150.jpg)
My Painting is Tomorrow’s Painting. Watch and See: Bess in The Limelight as 40 Works Go on Sale to Benefit Anderson Cancer Center
Christie’s is selling off forty paintings by Forrest Bess, legendary Texas fish-camp hermit and symbolist painter to benefit the UT’s MD Anderson Cancer Center in a private sale running from March 1-April 3, 2012. Bess has been an underground favorite for years, but his rare, cryptic small scale works are suddenly getting some limelight as [...]
![Artists Sue Resellers for Back Royalties: California Droit De Suite Law to be Tested](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130119093627im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/chuck-close-money-150x150.jpg)
Artists Sue Resellers for Back Royalties: California Droit De Suite Law to be Tested
Lawyers representing Chuck Close, Laddie John Dill, and the Estate of Robert Graham, among others have filed three class-action lawsuits aimed at getting the big auction houses and eBay to divulge information about their sellers, and make them pay up under the California Resale Royalties Act, which requires Californians reselling a piece of fine art [...]