Eight sculptures were being offered by auction house Roseberys at prices so low they would have been "destructive to his career", according to the artist Richard Deacon

Businesses urged to tighten approach to client background checks as US subpoenas auction houses for sales records

Surrealist work is estimated to make €2m at Sotheby's

New York judge rules the auction house must face trial as part of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s art fraud lawsuit

Works by Yayoi Kusama, Matthew Wong and Loie Hollowell will headline a preview exhibition for its inaugural auctions in March

The sale at Sotheby’s Paris will include seven works by the artist with Portrait of Zoé Elmore carrying the highest estimate of €1.2m

Prosecutors in New York are seeking auction house sales information going back years in order to track potentially illicit transactions by sanctioned Russian collectors

Epiris private equity group, which owns the auction house, has reportedly approached JP Morgan Chase & Co to advise on the deal

The work, depicting a village scene, is being sold at Hôtel Drouot

Reports of thefts of heritage furniture items from buildings across the Indian city have risen over the past ten years

As the panel was looted in Paris, the magistrates claimed jurisdiction of the French courts over the High Court in London

The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?

Auction house kicked off its year-long restitution programme in Paris last week which aims to educate collectors and buyers

Strauss & Co is launching a new sale format with the aim of fostering a more inclusive African art market

Don't be fooled by the higher-than-ever sale figures—the market is softening

Christie's will offer Scillionian Beachscape alongside a late garden scene by Freud, both of which were once in the collection of renowned patron Simon Sainsbury

Heirs of Jewish art critic forced to sell the work estimated at $15m now set to benefit from Sotheby’s auction

Patti Wong & Associates will partner with London-based advisory The Fine Art Group to expand its global reach

Auctioneer Simon de Pury looks into his crystal hammer

A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work

Single-owner collections and millennials boost auction house’s revenues despite “challenging macro environment”

Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December

It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention

Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach

Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio

Charity sales, while undoubtedly a positive, tend to skew valuable auction data upwards and muddy an already opaque market

Closed borders have impacted the selection of offerings this season, specialists say

The National Institute of Anthropology and History has recently accused two auction houses of holding problematic—yet not illegal—sales of historic objects

Bolland & Marotz in Bremen issued a statement this week saying it was "outraged" by the incident