Auction houses
Frieze London fights gender gap—but how many female artists are at the fair?
Fair focuses on women but market still favours men
Auction transfer season: Cécile Verdier of Sotheby's replaces Christie's France president, François de Ricqlès
Move follows a record-breaking breaking year for Paris auctions in 2017
Young pop-up The Auction Collective claims bidding on art is as easy as buying a book on Amazon
No buyer's premium and bidding paddles on your phone, but founder still believes holding physical auctions is key
Red tape is stifling German auctions
Stringent cultural heritage laws and bureaucracy are making consignments much harder to find
Sotheby’s earnings take a hit as demanding consignors and guarantors squeeze its commission margin
Just two paintings significantly damaged the auction house's bottom line in the second quarter
Very much an acquired taste: how did so many Italian baroque paintings end up in US museums?
Book provides a sampling of personalities, acquisition strategies and collections that many Europeans may not know
Christie’s reports record half year sales of £2.97bn
Rockefeller auction plus leap in private and online sales drive 26% increase
Monet’s lost cat returns home to Giverny
A “purr-fect” ending to the story of the missing pottery object found in the collection of the artist’s secret granddaughter
More than just a pretty face: furrowed brows win at Christie's patchy Old Master sale, but £6.7m sculpture tops paintings
Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale
Guarantees, the Beckham effect and warts-and-all portraits: Sotheby's pulls off a consistent Old Master sale
No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale
Otto Naumann comes out of 'retirement' to join Sotheby's
Veteran Old Master dealer will join the auction house in New York at the end of the summer, months after selling his inventory there
Glut of sculpture in London auctions, despite Giambologna withdrawal
Bronze and marble take centre stage during Old Masters sales week, although Dresden Mars returns home without going on the block at Sotheby's
London’s contemporary art summer season in flux as middle market comes out on top
Christie’s introduces day sale format and established names give way to new talent
Lucian Freud’s late reclining nude makes London record at £22.5m
Artist was 80 years old when he began the painting of a former Tate cataloguer
How did Adrian Ghenie conquer the art market?
The Romanian painter’s prices have increased 160-fold over the past decade. But who, or what, is behind this steep rise?
Supply wrung out? End of term feel to London Impressionist and Modern art auctions
Sotheby's sale fell below estimate while Christie’s provided some cheer, showing there is still money in Monet – but only the right one
Rapper pays $18.5m for work at auction but the artist gets nothing—is the system in need of reform?
Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit
German museum and auctioneer Im Kinsky tussle over looted glass goblet
Object was returned to consigner not museum from where it was looted at the end of Second World War
Dinosaur skeleton previously unknown to science auctioned in the Eiffel Tower
Aguttes sold the fossil to an anonymous buyer, who may name the new species, despite protests from paleontologists
Are Sergei Skripal sanctions hitting Russian buying and selling at UK auctions?
Hostile relations between Russia and the West following attempted poisoning of former MI6 spy may dampen bidding at London's Russian sales
Beckmann painting auctioned for record €4.7m in Berlin
Villa Grisebach says price is the highest paid for any work in a German auction
Christie’s reintroduces contemporary art to its London summer calendar
Still no evening auction, but blue-chip artists make way for fresh talent in new day sale format
Women speak out about the gender pay gap at UK auction houses
Blaming an ingrained culture, auction houses vow to correct imbalance in women’s pay and representation in the highest ranks
Is Bonhams for sale?
Advisory group NM Rothschild has reportedly been brought in to oversee a possible sale of the British auction house
Object lessons: our picks from this week's evening auctions in New York
Highlights include works by Cady Noland, Kerry James Marshall and Lyonel Feininger
Online sales, Asia and guarantees: auction house chiefs on the future of the business
The heads of Christie's, Bonhams and Phillips speak on market shifts, challenges and why they believe their model will succeed
Object lessons: a drawing board made for Karl Lagerfeld and more
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
European Union tightens anti-money-laundering rules in the art market
Dealers will be compelled to verify identity of customers buying art for €10,000 or more
Object lessons: a psychedelic cabinet from Gaetano Pesce and more
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Object lessons: censored photographs by Dorothea Lange and more
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions