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\n\tEditor\u2019s Note:<\/strong>\u00a0This story originally appeared in\u00a0On Balance<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the ARTnews\u00a0newsletter about the art market and beyond.\u00a0Sign up here<\/a><\/em>\u00a0to receive it every Wednesday.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tHappy Tuesday! Here\u2019s a round-up of who\u2019s moving and shaking in the art trade this week.<\/p>\n \n\tThat\u2019s the cumulative total<\/a> for 10 highest auction results of 2025, led of course by the $236.4 million sale of Gustav Klimt\u2019s Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer<\/em> (1914\u201316). That total is the market\u2019s highest since 2022\u2019s $1.1 billion, and well above last year\u2019s $512.6 million and 2023\u2019s $660 million. Perhaps unsurprisingly all but one of the top ten results happened during the November marquee sales week.<\/p>\n \n\t2025 was a rough year any way you slice it: an unstable economy, ravaging climate disasters, the return of President Trump to the Oval Office\u2014and all the chaos that entails\u2014and a viciously divided political climate sporadically punctuated by previously unthinkable violence. Narrow the focus to the art world and none of those pressures disappear. In fact, perhaps more than ever, the art world seemed intertwined with all of them. With the year drawing to a close, ARTnews<\/em> is taking stock, looking at the defining artworks<\/a> of the year, the most important news events<\/a>, the best exhibitions<\/a> in New York, and much, much more. Have a look<\/a>, and happy holidays!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0This story originally appeared in\u00a0On Balance,\u00a0the ARTnews\u00a0newsletter about the art market and beyond.\u00a0Sign up here\u00a0to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Tuesday! Here\u2019s a round-up of who\u2019s moving and shaking in the art trade this week. Industry Moves Jessica Silverman Adds Rebecca Manson to Roster: The New York\u2013based sculptor, known for her large intensely tactile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 15:41:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\t\tIndustry Moves<\/strong>\t<\/h2>\n
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\n\t\tBig Number<\/strong>: $757 M. \t<\/h2>\n
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