#artauctions — Public Fediverse posts

The curious case of 1,400 pieces of African art, once in the possession of Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and twice ordered to be auctioned off by a judge, took another turn this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2024/07/26/494906/auction-of-controversial-african-art-collection-in-houston-again-halted-by-11th-hour-court-filing/

#ArtsCulture #Court #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #AfricanArt #ArtAuctions #Auction #CommissionerRodneyEllis #SamNjunuri #TemporaryRestrainingOrder

What happened to turbocharge art auctions in about 1974?

Google Ngram Viewer for "art market", "art auction", "Christie's", and "Sotheby's":

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=art+market%2Cart+auction%2C+Christie%27s%2C+Sotheby%27s&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cart%20market%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cart%20auction%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CChristie%20%27s%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2CSotheby%20%27s%3B%2Cc0

#Art #ArtMarket #ArtAuctions #Sothebys #Christies #assets #AssetInflation #Ngrams