Big Cheese Exits in the auction world: Adam Chinn COO at Sotheby's and Francis Outred and Loic Gouzer, top gun rainmakers in contemporary art at Christie's — All recently departed and wondering WHY?

Excellent Artnet piece by tag team Halperin & Burns on the African-American art market though should be noted that Basquiat isn’t exactly ‘African-American’ but Haitian/Puerto Rican. He’s a solo category king-maker.

A rare sighing of Bacon's Women at Ordovas Gallery juddtully.net/blog/francis-b… #FrancisBacon #painting #OrdovasGallery

Judd Tully presentation on Beauford and Joseph Delaney, Their Life and A... youtu.be/QjoC06KZn_w via YouTube

How Good is the Hood? Dartmouth's Expanded Art Museum Reopens CLARIFIED and UPDATED artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/20…

Solid as a Rock in London town. juddtully.net/blog/sothebys-… Sotheby's #LucianFreud #JennySaville #DavidHockney #AuctionUpdate

Big night for Hockney juddtully.net/blog/christies… Christie's #DavidHockney #JordanCasteel #HenryGeldzahler

Keeping things tidy PHILLIPS juddtully.net/blog/phillips-… #Basquiat #GerhardRichter #GiorgioMorandi

A solid night at Sotheby's juddtully.net/blog/sothebys-… #amedeomodigliani #claudemonet #renémagritte #alfredkubin

Socially distanced records abound Sotheby's ! #ClaudeMonet #ClyffordStill #DonaldJudd #FrancisBacon, #HelenFrankenthaler, #JeanMichelBasquiat #JoanMitchell #LeeKrasner #LeoCastelli #OliverBarker, #PabloPicasso #RemediosVaro #RoyLichtenstein #VijaCelmins juddtully.net/blog/sothebys-…

“One” heck of a sale, a whopper if I might say... Christie's - check the link in bio for all the deets #BarnettNewman #BriceMarden #Christies #FrankStella #GerhardRichter #JeanDubuffet #JeanMichelBasquiat… instagram.com/p/CCfGRx6FrFU/…

It's a brave new world with fairwarningart and loicgouzer - Basquiat Work on Paper Fetches $10.8 Million on the Fair Warning auction platform - see link in bio for all the deets #fairwarningauction… instagram.com/p/CDUJIFplIg-/…

Just two guys and a garage in Montauk.  Fair Warning does it again - George Condo’s “Dreamscape” from 2010 Fetches $3,680,000 on fairwarningart - see link in bio for the unabridged scoop artistgeorgecondo… instagram.com/p/CDm0HrmlaPq/…

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fairwarningart Sells Romuald Hazoumè’s “Chou Chou” Sculpture  for a record $69,000 - link to details in bio loicgouzer #fairwarningart #fairwarning #romualdhazoumè #davidbowie #documenta #republicofbenin #yoruba… instagram.com/p/CD6vbdjF6Dp/…

The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via The New Yorker (& 51 years later, I learn the real story!)

Matthew Wong Sells for Estimate Busting $575,000  - an interesting trajectory is developing from burgeoning talent that left us too soon.  Editor’s note:  We had a correction on last week’s post thanks to the… instagram.com/p/CEkI-mFlrEG/…

Just posted a photo @ Hong Kong instagram.com/p/CIdoYj9FOD9/…

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