Private sales and flexible financing arrangements are also helping the businesses shore up their bottom lines

One of the most complete fossilised skeletons of its kind beat the previous record, held by Ken Griffin’s Apex, by more than $5m

Data from Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips shows confidence from major single-owner sales is trickling down to the rest of the art market

Three timepieces are among the house's top five highest-priced lots this year

The Taiwanese musician has fulfilled a long-held ambition to own a work by the French artist, buying a painting at Sotheby’s New York

New York gallery responds to client needs by offering a $10m-plus de Kooning painting in attention-grabbing move

While impressive results in New York and London suggest buoyancy at the very top end, further news of closures and downsizing illustrates the soaring costs facing bricks-and-mortar galleries

Consigned from the holdings of Anita and Poju Zabludowicz, the £15.4m sale fell within estimate

Led by a once-scandalous Modigliani painting, the £296.3m London evening sale provided a bright spot for a market struggling with concerns of Brexit and overseas competition

The objects, a stone mask and an intricate ceramic figure, are scheduled to be auctioned Thursday morning in New York

Led by a £3.8m painting by Ganesh Pyne, the auction of the Goodricke collection is the latest South Asian Modern art sale to smash records

The book, estimated at up to £600,000, is the first original edition to appear at auction in more than a century

Dancer’s Fountain sold for €4m, after it was returned by the artist's museum to the heirs of Jewish collector Heinrich Stahl

Plus a Maynard Dixon painting owned by Diane Keaton and a William Morris working combining cave art and glass

New York’s marquee auctions made record figures for established names, but precious few by young artists. Meanwhile, struggling gallery sector is impacting primary contemporary market

New auction records were set for Pollock, Rothko, Brancusi, Miro and Neel

Last night's season opening sale of post-war and contemporary art, which started with 11 lots from the late art dealer, set new records for young artists Ding Shilun and Yu Nishimura

Plus a market-conscious Basquiat and a Seagram-adjacent Rothko

A Mamluk footed bowl deaccessioned from the Toledo Museum was the star of this spring's sales of Indian and Islamic art, which saw strong bidding on Indian paintings and Iznik ceramics

The sales at Bonhams, Christie’s, Phillips and Sotheby’s, spanning two weeks, will test the trade’s recent buoyancy

Cyrus Poonawalla is the latest collector to pay top prices for South Asian art, as the Indian art market continues a bull run

The skeleton of a young adult dinosaur, excavated in Wyoming during the 1990s "Bone Rush", sold on the musician's online Joopiter platform

The auction, scheduled for 11 June, will bring together 93 works including rare Bengali pieces

The portrait has been deemed “a work of major historical and artistic interest“ for France’s national heritage

Kent County Council, led by the Reform party, cited financial pressures as a reason for the forthcoming sale, while stating that the works had not been offered to any of the county’s museums or galleries

The evening brought in £197m, a 52% increase on last year's equivalent auctions

The packed auction totalled £131m and made a record for Leon Kossoff

Our pick of the highlights from the March auctions

The auction will provide crucial financial support for the institution, which last year was looking at axing 60 members of staff as part of a cost-cutting drive

The acclaimed poet, who died in 2024, was “a unique figure" who combined collecting and selling art with writing and publishing literature