Shortening art market cycles and the politics around "flipping" artworks are leading collectors to conduct business away from public scrutiny

UK’s public institutions continue to provide a greater degree of equity—though this is not even across all pay brackets

Total sales grew just 3% in 2022, while China's zero-Covid policies saw UK overtake it as second-biggest market

Auction house faced online backlash over male-dominated digital art sale

Painting was sold by Vollard in 1930 and has never been publicly exhibited before

The opening of the 52,000 sq ft Kowloon space kicked off the city's first international art week since Covid restrictions lifted

Report also highlights how Asian, Millennial and Gen X buyers are changing the demographic of the market

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