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In the late nineteen twenties, Joan Miró stood at a precipice of his own making. Dissatisfied with the conventions of representational form, he declared war on…
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Watch the film on Instagram There are auctions of individual disciplines, and then there are moments when a great house steps back to honour the entire…
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Photography, in the hands of its greatest practitioners, becomes a form of visual philosophy. It captures not merely what is seen, but what is felt: the…
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The rocks and beaches of Cadaqués held Salvador Dalí in their thrall. That Catalan shore, where he spent childhood summers, became the theatre of his imagination…
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Watch the film on Instagram There is a particular electricity that surrounds the sale of works that have travelled through decades, handled with reverence by discerning…
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Photography occupies a peculiar place in the collecting consciousness: immediate yet layered, documentary yet profoundly subjective. The finest photographs do not merely record a moment; they…
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Few artists have navigated the tension between revelation and concealment with the subtlety that Gerhard Richter commands. In Mathis, painted in 1983, that equilibrium reaches a…
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The hand has long occupied a peculiar place in the artistic imagination—a site of labour, gesture, vulnerability and agency. In the work of Julie Curtiss, this…
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When a major international auction house opens its catalogue doors, the selection itself becomes a statement of cultural value and artistic trajectory. Phillips' forthcoming Modern and…
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Watch the film on Instagram Phillips is set to present a work by Banksy at its Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale in London on 15…
Read the story →The most recent story is Modigliani’s ‘Tête’ Returns to the Market: A Limestone Manifesto of Early Modernism, published on 11 November 2026.
Recent stories include Helen Frankenthaler’s Peacock Alley: A New York Love Letter in Luminous Colour; Lois Dodd’s Windows: Thresholds Between Worlds; Modigliani’s Carved Stone Testament to Love and Egypt; Frank Stella’s Port Tampa City Comes to Auction at Phillips.
Phillips appears in Art.
Simply Luxury has published 40 stories about Phillips, all collected on this page and updated as new launches are announced.
The auction house founded in London in 1796, with head offices in London and New York, celebrated for its sales of contemporary art, design and important watches.
Our most recent Phillips story is Modigliani’s ‘Tête’ Returns to the Market: A Limestone Manifesto of Early Modernism, published on 11 November 2026. Watch the film on Instagram The sculptor's hand begins not with subtraction but with revelation. Amedeo Modigliani approached limestone as though the form already existed within it, waiting to be released. His...
Simply Luxury has published 40 stories on Phillips, including: Modigliani’s ‘Tête’ Returns to the Market: A Limestone Manifesto of Early Modernism; Helen Frankenthaler’s Peacock Alley: A New York Love Letter in Luminous Colour; Lois Dodd’s Windows: Thresholds Between Worlds; Modigliani’s Carved Stone Testament to Love and Egypt.
Our Phillips stories appear in Art, and every one is gathered on this page.
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