We’re Not Done Yet: Instagram is bristling with hints of big lots yet to be announced. Christie’s has this bright yellow and orange Mark Rothko from 1957 on offer in November with a $25-35m estimate range just quietly announced on Instagram. Brett Gorvy, who sometimes seems to forget that he no longer works at Christie’s, changed it up over the weekend and offered a preview of Sotheby’s 1983 Basquiat work, Flash in Naples. Loic Gouzer hinted at a massive Twombly coming to market, too, possibly consigned by Aby Rosen. Meanwhile, at Phillips there’s a Motherwell while we wait for the Franz Kline and Peter Doig works that Robert Manley is teasing. …
Half of Huge American Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art Donated to Three US Museums: Katya Kazakina reports on Bloomberg that about half of the 400-piece collection of Aboriginal art owned by Debra and Dennis Scholl will be disbursed between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which will get 19 works by women artists, the Frost Museum of Art at Florida International University and Reno’s Nevada Museum. …
Timothy Sammons Indicted in New York: District Attorney Cyrus Vance has indicted Timothy Sammons on charges of Larceny and creating a scheme to defraud his clients when he sold a number of works of art without paying his consignors. Sammons’s lawyer claims his client will be vindicated when civil litigation in London is concluded. …
Rockwell’s Children Sue Berkshire Museum: The sale is set for November 13th at Sotheby’s but Norman Rockwell’s kids don’t want to believe the financial need is as dire as the Berkshire Museum claims. …
Georgina Adam Says Bouvier Has Sold Nature Le Coultre: In a tweet today, the British art journalist says the Swiss art shipping concern Yves Bouvier owns has been sold to Andre Chenue a French company shipping and logistics company.
