leryl timeline RSS2026-03-30T06:10:06+0000The Juno Awards have been given out. Read more here

]]>2026-03-30T06:10:06+0000 Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Cash flowed, but confidence trickled on Day 1 of Art Basel Hong Kong, where a cross-section of the 240 galleries offered a spectrum of responses to one simple question: How are sales?  At Hauser & Wirth, Marc Payot, presiding over a packed booth, described a “phenomenal” start, citing attendance from serious collectors across Asia. By 5 p.m., several key works had sold. Louise Bourgeois’s 2002 sculpture Couple, a tender late-career figurine, fetched $2.2 million, and her 2008 etching and mixed media on paper piece, À Baudelaire (#1), went for $2.95 million. Prismatic Head (2021), a painting by George Condo, who recently left the gallery, went for $2.3 million.    According to Payot, there was high interest in the booth’s two priciest offerings: the 1956 Alexander Calder mobile Horizontal and Pablo Picasso’s 1965 Chat et crabe sur la plage (Cat and Crab on the Beach). The gallery did not state a price for either work. Meanwhile, Lee Bul, the subject of a stellar survey at M+, has entered another private museum in Asia with Untitled (“Infinity” wall), which sold for $275,000.  “What we have done differently this year is this mix of historical material with contemporary program, so a Calder paired with an Avery Singer; a Picasso with Roni Horn,” Payot said. “We try to keep as much available as possible for the fair.”  He added, “We don’t bring this level of material to any other Asian art fair.”  David Zwirner reported selling a 2006 painting by Liu Ye for $3.8 million and a 2002 painting by Marlene Dumas for $3.8 million. O... Read more

]]>2026-03-26T07:48:08+0000Liam and Noel Gallagher have reunited to celebrate Man City beating Arsenal in the Carabao Cup. Read more here

]]>2026-03-23T06:10:05+0000 Paintings by Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840–1926) are some of the most valuable artworks in the world; in 2019 his Meules (Haystacks) soared to $110.7 million at Sotheby’s New York, setting an auction record for an Impressionist painting that still stands today. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental Nymphéas (Water Lilies) canvases and ethereal Venetian cityscapes, Monet’s work has attracted a global following of collectors eager to own a piece of his luminous art. But at the beginning of his career Monet, like many of the Impressionists, struggled to make ends meet. As reported by Artnet News, a letter confirming a loan to the artist from Gustave Manet, a brother of Monet’s fellow Impressionist Édouard Manet, will be among a tranche of Monet’s correspondence coming up for auction at Autograph Auctions on March 25. The letter, dated October 18, 1875, reads, “I, the undersigned Claude Monet, acknowledge having received from Mr Gustave Manet, as a loan, the sum of one thousand francs, which shall be repayable from the proceeds of the sale of 35 of my paintings, to be conducted in the course of next February under the direction of Mr Charles Oudart, auctioneer.” Manet further notes that he has already delivered eight paintings to Oudart, with the rest “including the one depicting a Japanese woman (life-size), currently in progress” to be delivered as they were completed. The painting mentioned would become La Japonaise (1876), a painting of Monet’s wife dressed in a Japanese kimono. It is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and estimated to be worth $100 million. “[W]hat makes this particular document signed by Claude Monet so important historically is the light it sheds on the financial struggles of the early Impressionists,” International Autograph Auctions Europe’s CEO Francisco Piñero told Artnet News. “More than just a list of figures, it cap... Read more

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