Auctions

Heffel’s autumn sales, including auction of art from collection of Canada’s oldest company, tally $22.1m

Across the day’s four sales in Toronto, the auction house set new secondary-market records for 16 artists’ work

French court halts sale of ‘earliest calculator’ at Christie's

A court has suspended the export license of the 17th-century arithmetic device designed by Blaise Pascal, the last such example in private hands

‘Really encouraging’: Phillips’s modern and contemporary sale continues New York auction momentum

The sale was led by a $16m Francis Bacon and included a Triceratops skeleton, a first for Phillips

Art market bounce back continues in New York with Christie's $123.5m 21st-century sale

Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis

Kicking off New York November sales, Christie's nets healthy $690m from double-header 20th-century auction

The house's total is up 42% from last year's equivalent sale, and it set new auction records for Leonor Fini and Beauford Delaney

Are you flush with cash? Maurizio Cattelan’s gold toilet could fetch $10m at auction

The 18-karat gold sculpture, another edition of which was used by thousands at the Guggenheim Museum, returns to the spotlight at Sotheby's

Christie’s and Sotheby’s auctions offer some solace, but market remains wary

Peter Doig’s ‘Ski Jacket’ soared over its estimate to achieve £106.9m at Christie’s, but overall lower estimates and price corrections revealed a mixed picture

Rare wooden Alexander Calder mobile heads to Christie’s

An early example of Calder’s most famous creations, the work carries a record estimate of $15m to $20m

Artists Zadie Xa and Dominic Chambers contribute works to Art of Wishes auction raising funds for critically ill children

The charity sale at Phillips supports the charity's mission to 'rescue the magic of childhood' through life-changing wishes for youngsters

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Record sales and a tax break close out blockbuster year for South Asian Modern market

Saffronart'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 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