Christie’s and Sotheby’s Face Uncertainty at Fall Auctions (Published 2015)

Lucio Fontana’s painting “Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio,” from 1964.Credit...Lucio Fontana: 2015, All Rights Reserved, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Is demand at the top end of the art market cooling? For next week’s auctions of big-ticket 20th- and 21st-century art in New York, expectations are certainly lower, lots fewer, and masterpieces further between than they were at the last b