Auctions
Head over to Sotheby's in London for a chance to see Frida Kahlo's $30m self-portrait before it goes under the hammer
Hitting the block at Sotheby's next month, Diego y yo (Diego and I), painted in 1949, could become the most valuable Latin American work ever sold at auction
Young, emerging artists continue to dominate Frieze week auctions as Phillips sets seven records
Asian bidders set the pace again as several works sell for ten times their lower estimate at the auction house's 20th century and contemporary art evening sale. But are these prices sustainable?
Young female painters and bored apes turn heads at Christie's £64.6m auction
The first NFT to be sold at auction in Europe sells for £800,000, while collectors compete for emerging women artists, leaving more established names on the shelf
Banksy record leads a smash-hit Sotheby’s auction which sees young artists soar to extraordinary heights
Asian collectors were behind much of the high bidding for hot emerging artists including Jadé Fadojutimi, Ewa Juszkiewicz and Flora Yukhnovich
Banksy world record as shredded work sells to Asian collector for £18.6m at Sotheby's
A previous painting called Girl with Balloon was shredded live at a Sotheby's auction three years ago, the resulting work, Love is in the Bin, has now sold
Stunning $30m Van Gogh watercolour resurfaces at Christie’s New York following complex behind-the-scenes deal
The auction house—which estimates the painting at $30m—helped broker a deal between the seller and the descendants of two Jewish families who had it in the Nazi era
Was Banksy’s infamous shredded painting really created in 2006?
As work heads back to auction at Sotheby's, the provenance of the street artist’s Girl with Balloon is being questioned
Our pick of five lots from Sotheby’s Hong Kong sales — and what they tell us about the Asian art market
Millennial buyers boosted sales for Western artists, whose works accounted for $114m out of $185m
Another Botticelli hits the market: Sotheby's to sell Botticelli's The Man of Sorrows for in excess of $40m
Auction house will sell the painting in January and is dubbing it "The defining masterpiece of Botticelli's late career". But what exactly does that mean?
Van Gogh goes East: for the first time, Sotheby’s is to auction his work in Hong Kong
A luxuriant still-life painting of gladioli flowers should sell for over $10m
'No matter how wealthy you are, no one is above the law': New York court rejects Sotheby's attempt to dismiss suit alleging it helped collector evade tax on $27m of art
Attorney general claims the auction house created and used tax exemption certificates that falsely presented the buyer as an art dealer in order to dodge payments. Sotheby's says it will continue to contest the case
German auction of Latin American antiquities goes ahead, but many works fail to sell
Ambassadors from eight countries—Mexico, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama and Peru—whose heritage was included in the sale launched a united front against it, with calls for Unesco to intervene
Young, monied and keen to gamble on art: the super power of Asian collectors
Asian buyers are now the biggest spenders at international auctions and these digitally-native collectors are happy to splurge online
Mexico attempts to halt German auction of Pre-Colombian artefacts
More than 70 works designated as national heritage are due to be sold in Munich on 21 September
Dread Scott's NFT 'White Male For Sale', a critique on slavery, to be auctioned off at Christie’s Post-War to Present sale
The work features a 1:10 loop of a business-class white man standing on an auction block
'A collector in dealer's clothes': Sotheby's to sell the collection of Richard L. Feigen
The sale of the New York dealer, who died earlier this year and was once a vocal critic of auction houses, will feature works from the 14th to 20th centuries
Christie's to sell €5m Chardin painting for the first time in nearly 200 years
Descendants of François Marcille will sell 27 paintings and drawings from his collection in Paris this November, including Woman Drawing Water from a Water Urn
Sotheby's wins 'dogfight' to sell $600m art collection of Harry and Linda Macklowe
Auction house will sell the 65 works, including $70m works by Rothko and Giacometti, in two standalone sales in November and next May
Object lessons: from an Inuit child's parka made of seal guts to a golden shawl spun from spider silk
Our pick of the highlights from this month's fairs and auctions
Need a 100-year-old Inuit parka made from seal guts? Dealer Peter Petrou to sell collection at Sotheby's
The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities
Let them buy cake! From Charles and Diana to Donald Trump, the auction stars of the wedding cake world
As a 40-year-old piece of icing and marzipan sells for £1,850, we look at the market for elderly baked goods (topped by a £15,000 biscuit)
Place your bids: Sotheby’s to auction 11 Picassos live from Bellagio in Las Vegas
The works, chosen by casino mogul Steve Wynn, will be auctioned as the entertainment group MGM Resorts moves to focus its art collection on "diversity and inclusion"
Jailed diamond dealer and art collector Nirav Modi fights extradition to India on mental health grounds
Modi, who is currently held in Wandsworth Prison in London, is wanted for allegedly defrauding a state bank of £729m
Exuberant Van Gogh landscape—featuring his beloved olive and cypress trees—could well make $40m at Christie's New York
Always hidden away in private collections, the painting will probably sell to a someone in the Far East
Christie's to sell Texan oil tycoon Edward L. Cox's collection of Impressionist art
The collection is expected to make over $200m in New York in November
Follow the money: Christie's bets on Hong Kong with vast new headquarters as clients in Asia spend over $1bn so far this year
Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions
Can auctions save the earth? Christie's to fundraise for environmental charity by selling works by Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson
The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m-$10m for ClientEarth
Let's bid: David Bowie album artwork for sale, direct from the artist who created it
A 120-lot online auction of Edward Bell's collection of designs, photographs and proofs starts today
Bellotto's view of Verona sells for record £10.5m at Christie's Old Master sale in London
Seven new artist records were set in tonight's auction, including for Georges de La Tour, while a second highest prices were set for female painters Angelica Kauffman and Artemisia Gentileschi
Legal battle over €15m Leonardo discovery: owner, Tajan auction house and French government fight it out
An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned