Auctions
Record sales and a tax break close out blockbuster year for South Asian Modern market
Saffron Art's latest auction in New Delhi is the largest ever held in South Asia, while Sotheby's in London made the highest price for Modernist F.N. Souza
Christie's Hong Kong autumn sale drops 46% from last year but makes Picasso's record in Asia
Sotheby's and Phillips's Hong Kong sales were also down from their 2024 equivalents
The story behind the Van Gogh still life that looks destined to become his most expensive Paris painting
‘Parisian Novels’ from the Pritzker collection is going on sale at Sotheby’s— along with a drawing that has not been exhibited for more than a century
Picasso painting not seen in 80 years heads to auction in France
The portrait of the artist's lover Dora Maar goes under the hammer with an estimate of €8m
Frida Kahlo dreamscape estimated between $40m to $60m could break artist's auction record
El Sueňo is from a major Surrealist collection amassed by Nesuhi and Selma Ertegun, being sold at Sotheby's New York this November
Japanese museum’s collection of Western art could bring $60m at auction
The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art will sell off its treasures this autumn at Christie’s in New York
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan's collection of Indian and Persian paintings to sell at Christie's for more than £8m
The collection of 95 works, built with his wife Princess Catherine, will be auctioned in London on 28 October
‘Unicorn’ collection, expected to fetch $180m, comes to Christie's
The Weis family's private trove of masterworks has emerged at last
Forged Picasso prints sold at Stuttgart auction recovered as part of international police operation
The replica etchings are among more than 100 fake contemporary works of art that have been seized by Italian authorities since 2022
The art market bites back as estimates fail to score
A landscape that includes economic volatility, generational movement and new technology is changing the rules of engagement
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Turner painting bought last year for £500 sells for almost £2m at Sotheby's
The Old Master sale on Wednesday night totalled £14.5m, led by a record price of £2.7m for Florentine artist Lorenzo di Credi
Pennsylvania college moves to sell its entire art collection amid $20m budget shortfall
Albright College has consigned more than 500 works from its collection to an online auction, though the small sum it expects to get from the sale will do little to alleviate financial pressures it faces
A Clara Peeters self-portrait and the only work for which Gandhi posed are among this summer’s auction highlights
Plus, a tense landscape by Max Beckmann and nudes by Philip Pearlstein
Collector Ken Griffin spends $18.1m on historic US documents signed by Abraham Lincoln
Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution
Nudes by Tamara de Lempicka and Jenny Saville lead quiet Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale
The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite a beleaguered post-Brexit market
Pauline Karpidas collection estimated to make £60m at Sotheby's
The London sales of mostly Surrealist art have the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection by the auction house in Europe
Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi painting offered for sale in London for £1m to £2m
David with the Head of Goliath, fully attributed to the artist in 2020, will headline Sotheby's Old Master evening auction on 2 July
A rare dining set by Claude Lalanne and a childhood portrait of the Dalai Lama: our pick of the June auctions
Plus, an early Western view of India and an “illuminating” Giacometti lightpost
Sotheby’s $51.8m Saunders collection falls short, but still breaks Old Masters record
The sale achieved a 62% sell through rate and made new auction records for Luis Meléndez and Frans Post
Aboriginal art returns to Sotheby’s New York two years after pioneering dealer Tim Klingender's death
The auction house holds its first dedicated sale of Indigenous Australian art since the passing of Klingender, who was instrumental in developing the market for this category
‘Halo effect’ of powerful art dealers’ collections boosts Sotheby’s sale
Works from the estate of Barbara Gladstone and the home of Daniella Luxembourg—plus a litter of Lichtensteins—energised 15 May marquee auction of post-war and contemporary art
Marlene Dumas’s $13.6m semi-nude breaks auction record for a living female artist
Women rescued Christie’s otherwise quiet 21st century evening sale in New York, which also set a new auction high-water mark for Simone Leigh
Despite record-breaking results for four women artists, Phillips’s evening auction in New York sparks few fireworks
The auction brought in a hammer total of $44.2m, just below Phillips’s low estimate for the night and exactly in line with last November’s equivalent sale
$70m Giacometti bombs at patchy Sotheby’s Modern art auction
The prize lot, a bust depicting the artist’s brother Diego, failed to attract bidders during the $186.4m sale
Record-breaking female Surrealists spice up underwhelming Christie’s New York sales
Last night’s low-risk, low energy auctions made $489m in total, including $272m for the collection of Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio, along with new records for Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo
A young Richter’s painting of an even younger Polke and a once-grimy Brazilian landscape by Frans Post: our pick of the May auctions
Plus, Andy Warhol's “Big Electric Chair” and a Fernando Botero nude
Marquee May auctions in New York come at a volatile moment
As tariffs and stock-market fluctuations unsettle consignments for the spring sales, the trade awaits signs of what to expect in the next four years
Tirzah Garwood's archive of work worth £30,0000 to be sold at auction
Group of wood engravings and sketches will be sold at Cheffins this month, just before acclaimed retrospective of the artist's work closes at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Marlene Dumas painting set to break auction record for a work by a living woman artist
'Miss January' comes to market from the holdings of the influential collectors Mera and Don Rubell