Woman Sewing was inspired by a soulful English poem, “The Song of the Shirt”

In a rather lacklustre 2023, luxury shone the brightest

Luxury goods and Millennials are helping buoy the bottom line, though fine art remains at the core of the business

The portrait of Gordina, whom Vincent was accused of getting pregnant, is worth around £5m

Brooks, who joined the company in 2021, has left for personal reasons

At issue is whether the auction house "aided and abetted" Yves Bouvier in inflating prices in four private sales

Will Patrick Drahi sell a stake in Sotheby’s? Will Frieze acquire more regional fairs? Watch this space…

How did his forecasts weather the roughest turbulence the trade has experienced in years? Read on to find out

An exceptional 2022 buoyed by the $1.6bn collection of Paul Allen has proved a tough act to follow—but private sales are on the rise

It turns out the glass vessel is a rare example of a 1940s Venini piece designed by the architect Carlo Scarpa

According to a recent report, guarantees are down—what's happened?

Both sales persevered through a lukewarm atmosphere to break into the lower reaches of their estimate ranges

Swan song of veteran auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen made $640.8m—the house's highest total for a non-single-owner sale in six years

All of the proceeds from Walters’s art collection—along with her jewellery and home décor—will go toward charitable causes, according to her estate

"Self Portrait as a Heel (Part Two)" (1982) hasn’t been displayed in public since its last appearance at auction, in 1999

Fruits et pot de gingembre, one of three Cézanne paintings included in the sale, was found to have been sold under duress after the Nazis took power in Germany

After nearly 40 years at the auction house, Pylkkänen will work as an independent art adviser

Ai Weiwei’s taxi window crank sculptures will also go on the block at the Sotheby's live sale

Shielding art prices from organic market conditions doesn't always pay off

Phillips’s recent private selling exhibition of Damien Hirst works marked 15 years of artists collaborating with auction houses, with or without gallery cooperation

Results offered at least modest reassurance at the house’s premier Frieze Week auction

"La Patience" (1948), which was one of two Balthus paintings in the museum’s collection, will go up for auction at Sotheby’s New York in November

A double-sided Fernand Léger estimated between $15m to $20m leads the offering, amassed by a Dutch shipping and oil magnate and his wife

In sales spanning this year and next, hundreds of works that once belonged to the SFMoMA trustee will be offered, including a box in a suitcase by Duchamp

The auctions will include a 1932 Picasso painting with a $120m estimate

The drawing, which was first sold by the Yorkshire auction house in 2021, depicts Dover harbour from an East India company ship

Major auction houses have posted steep falls in turnover for the year so far—but some categories, such as luxury goods, are booming

The painting, which featured prominently in a recent Colescott retrospective, hammered slightly below its estimate

The late-career painting is expected to break the artist’s $16.6m auction record this November

The autumn auctions will mark the first dedicated sales in North America tied to the powerful banking family