Bonhams will offer art, movie memorabilia and personal effects that belonged to the Hollywood star, who died in February 2025

The auction house has been acquired for an undisclosed fee, two years after previous owner Epiris tried to float it for $1bn

The first three works could sell for as much as $145,000 in Los Angeles next month

‘Crowns (Peso Neto)’ (1981) is estimated to fetch between $35m and $40m

The sale will help the auction house pay down debt, chief executive Charles F. Stewart told staff in an internal email

Coming from the same private collection, the works span three decades of Freud's career

The art market is failing to attract the highest spenders, whose sights are set on other investments as the trade plateaus

As other parts of the business scale back, advisories continue to launch and expand

Specialists estimate the collections could collectively bring in around $520m during the upcoming auctions in New York this autumn

With the NFT market still a fraction of its recent heights, the auction house has reportedly let go of key staffers

The auction house will hold a series of live sales in the emirate this December featuring sports cars, jewellery and handbags

After the Indian culture ministry intervened to halt a sale of the Piprahwa gems, Sotheby’s has sold the trove to a Mumbai conglomerate

Held in collaboration with Grosvenor Gallery, the Modernist selling show sees the auction house tap into this burgeoning region

Sotheby's specialists tell stories of discovery, restitution and scholarship, looking at some of the most defining moments in art history

The painting, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, was sold during Christie's £55m Old Master sale in London tonight, alongside works by Constable, Willem Key and Gerrit Dou

The actor’s character on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was unprecedented for a woman on primetime television

Westphal is to set up her own business working directly with collectors and artists while Engelen will join Aquavella Galleries

The prize lot, a bust depicting the artist’s brother Diego, failed to attract bidders during the $186.4m sale

The collector and lifestyle mogul highlighted works from the sale by Amy Sherald, Alex Katz, Louise Bourgeois and others

Alex Rotter's promotion is the latest senior management shuffle at the auction house since Guillaume Cerutti stepped down

The giant slab of wall adorned with Banksy's "Battle To Survive a Broken Heart" will go to auction to benefit the American Heart Association

As mainland Chinese art buying continues its post-pandemic contraction, Christie’s and Sotheby’s are pivoting from ultra-contemporary Western artists towards tried-and-tested 19th- and 20th-century big hitters

Officials and archaeologists have said the small object, which was auctioned by Lyon and Turnbull for €22,500 earlier this month, is a copy

Julien Pradels will fill the role left when Bonnie Brennan was promoted to chief executive

What’s behind the new, more measurement approaches to programming at museums, art fairs and more? Plus, a chat about current tensions around culture in the Netherlands and a close look at one of the most famous depictions of a wintery landscape

The leading lot is a painting by the artist's close friend Kenneth Noland

'The so-called “gateway drug” effect of luxury has been overstated'

At this year’s winter auctions, the two big houses saw ‘a mixed bag and mixed results’

Overall sales fell by 23% compared to 2023, though the private division grew

The auction house's swift reversal of its recently overhauled premium structure is an admission of how wrongly it read the runes, writes Melanie Gerlis