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

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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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Comment | Artnet sale underscores its impact on the industry—and its limitations in today's landscape

The online data company had a truly radical offering when it started in 1990, but how will it prosper in a changed world?

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

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

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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

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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

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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