Your summer art auction calendar

New Delhi, June 7 Auction houses globally may have seen very different trends during the Covid-induced lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, but a mix of online and live auction formats is keeping the art market going, and the collectors' community thriving.

Here is what you can look forward to in the upcoming months:

Women in art

For the first time, Christie's in France will hold a sale dedicated to women artists on June 16, covering all mediums ancient and modern paintings, sculptures, books and autographed letters, photographs, engravings, design, jewels, fashion. The panorama will pay tribute to women artists working over five centuries, from different nationalities, all of whom have marked art history, from the 16th to the 21st century.

In its first auction dedicated to female artists across the centuries, many of whom have been categorised or marginalised by history due to their gender, auction house Sotheby's had staged the '