Andy Warhol, Brillo Soap Pads Box , 1964, silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on wood, 17 x 17 x 14 in. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Founding Collection. More than 100 Brillo boxes, said to be works by Andy Warhol, have been declared “copies” by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board after a three-year [...]

Following yesterday evening’s remarkably strong results, Sotheby’s October Sales Series of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art today concluded with the Contemporary Art Day Auction, which brought the near-top estimate total of £9,683,850 ($15,513,528/€11,014,376) (est. £7.5-10.6 million). The sale established sell-through rates of 83% by lot and 86% by value.

A museum in Malmo, Sweden, was unaware of the theft of three of its works of art until police found them in a raid in nearby Landskrona. An Edvard Munch painting, Two Friends, valued at $1.5 million, was discovered in the apartment raid by police, along with paintings by Swedish artist Gustaf Rydberg and Paer [...]