Anna Brady

Art marketfeature

Christie's South Kensington: the training ground where an industry learned its game

Art world power players add their voices to the eulogy for the well-loved secondary saleroom

City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry

Inaugural Venice Glass Week will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium

Lost Keith Vaughan photographs go on show in London, capturing illicit love at a time when homosexuality was still illegal

Images, to be shown at Austin Desmond Fine Art, depict British artist with group of male friends on holiday at Pagham Beach in West Sussex

Sotheby’s second-quarter income down 14%, but revenue is up as auction house invests in digital

Chief executive Tad Smith hints at reining in costs through automation and efficiency cuts, and plans to grow jewellery, wine and art advisory businesses

Christie’s to hold first Modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art sale in London

Auction house cuts Dubai October series as it looks to “internationalise” the sector's market

Fundraising auction of Haitian art tests the water

Piasa’s dedicated sale will benefit island’s Le Centre d’art which was decimated in 2010 earthquake

Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale falls short of goal but beats last year’s result by nearly 500%

Max Beckmann’s Birds’ Hell sells for a record £32m, with new highs also notched for Hannah Höch and Georges Vantongerloo

Kandinsky record falls twice in patchy Sotheby’s sale

With three lots making over £20m with fees, Sotheby’s long-winded Impressionist & Modern Art auction improves on 2016 but falls just short of a stiff estimate

Object lessons: from Pissarro's rare colour print to Avedon's slaughterhouse worker

Our pick of highlights from the week's auctions and Asian Art in London

Post-Brexit fears calmed as buyers take advantage of weak pound

In London, low estimates and favourable exchange rates boost contemporary profits… but at the Italian sales, fewer stand-out lots bring results down from last year’s high

No superstars but some fresher faces at Sotheby’s Italian sales

The auction house aims to introduce buyers to artists who are not yet household names

Record for Pino Pascali at Christie’s Italian sale

Arte Povera artist's Code di Delfino led London auction, selling for £2.2m

In pictures: PAD London

These six works provide a taster of PAD’s tenth anniversary offerings, from Modern and decorative art to tribal art, antiquities and design

Object lessons: from an ancient Greek coin to a chronicle of English kings

Dealers and auction houses stage selling shows during the art world's summer break

Fairsnews

Masterpiece London turns away from luxury roots

Cross-disciplinary fair focuses on art and design to lure collectors and curators