By the time London dealer Patrick Matthiesen realised the person he had handed “Mother and Child on a Hammock” over to was not who he claimed to be, it was too late

‘David and Goliath’ went to auction with an estimate of just just €2m–€4m

The contractual work was sold for €25,000 to appoint curator Mi You to the institution's board

As Maurizio Cattelan's toilet sells to its gold spot price, experts question just how secure of an investment art really is

The newly attributed, five-inch-tall sketch of a foot has an estimate of $1.5m to $2m

The decision is framed as a “strategic evolution for the gallery as it consolidates its operations in London”

The recently passed federal budget includes a pledge to provide artists royalties when their work is resold on the secondary market

Jeff Cowan had been accused of sourcing forgeries and fabricating false provenance documents

The fair returns with a stacked list of participants, both new and familiar faces

Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s senior art market editor in the Americas, Carlie Porterfield, about this week’s auctions, discusses the climate emergency with Louisa Buck and chats to the director of the Wallace Collection

The final evening auction of New York’s marquee autumn sales featured a bevvy of bidding on Surrealist works and a $62.7m Van Gogh

The blue-chip mainstay, which for the past 15 year has operated from a Foster + Partners-designed headquarters on the Bowery, will shutter at the end of December

Across the day’s four sales in Toronto, the auction house set new secondary-market records for 16 artists’ work

A court has suspended the export license of the 17th-century arithmetic device designed by Blaise Pascal, the last such example in private hands

The sale was led by a $16m Francis Bacon and included a Triceratops skeleton, a first for Phillips

Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis

Sam Glatman, the co-founder of Artsignal, which recently received a major vote of confidence in the form of investment from Christie’s Ventures, predicts that it will become the “dominant intelligence layer for the art world”

The US oddity emporium and tourist attraction franchise is “flush with excitement”, according to a statement

The $706m total for the night included a white-glove sale of 24 lots from the collection of late cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder

Members of the IFPDA "overwhelmingly voted in favour" of the shift, the first major change to the association’s bylaws in decades

The fair has also made a historic curatorial announcement

The house's total is up 42% from last year's equivalent sale, and it set new auction records for Leonor Fini and Beauford Delaney

The fair group Art Basel are among the signatories of a statement criticising a proposal to introduce a levy on “unproductive wealth”

The fifth edition of the fair, where Japanese galleries invited international ones to share stands, welcomed 72 exhibitors

Japanese galleries return in full force this year, while the percentage of women photographers shown has increased

The UK gallery is being prosecuted for allegedly making available a work by George Condo to a person connected with Russia after the country's invasion of Ukraine in 2022

The artist, whose practice is underpinned by humour, has a poke at the art market with his new London exhibition

Ahead of the sale of a Robert Alice blockchain-based painting at Sotheby's New York, Smith discusses his support for bitcoin and collecting digital art

Estimates are up by more than 40% over last year’s November sales, driven in large part by Sotheby’s consignments

The fifth edition of the “post-art fair” event, which took place earlier this month following the election of Japan's first woman prime minister, received largely positive reviews from gallerists and visitors alike