KBR Fine Art Gallery

10/02/2026

09/29/2026

09/17/2026

English stretcher design versus Italian stretcher design. Love this man!!

07/07/2026

The pendulum is starting to swing….

: Christie’s and Sotheby’s brought in £76.7 million ($101.6 million) across their Classics evening sales last week, a respectable 9.4 percent rise on the same auctions last year. That follows a $560 million week of modern and contemporary auctions that felt like a breath of fresh air after years of shrinking sales in the U.K. capital.

But what’s fueling these two segments differs. If top-end market recovery is defining sales on the modern and contemporary side, discovery among a flush new collector base is driving results in Old Masters. Sotheby’s, for one, reported roughly 20 percent of buyers at its Old Masters evening sale were new to the auction house and nearly a quarter of the lots sold were purchased by collectors new to the field. Christie’s did not provide a specific stat but a spokesperson noted “new bidders and buyers across the sales on Tuesday.”

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Article by Margaret Carrigan

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Pictured: Two 17th-century still lifes by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum. Courtesy of Christie’s.

05/02/2026

Love this man!!!

04/27/2026

Always a good reminder

04/10/2026

Ahhh regardless what times we live in, the art of collecting is a part of the human experience.

The auctions exec discusses the rise of interest in collectibles, and why Heritage is a disrupter in the industry, even at 50 years old.