Always hidden away in private collections, the painting will probably sell to a someone in the Far East

The collection is expected to make over $200m in New York in November

Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions

The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m-$10m for ClientEarth

A 120-lot online auction of Edward Bell's collection of designs, photographs and proofs starts today

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

An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned

Proceeds from exhibition will go towards funding the monumental Paris project

Lower-value older works and those by artists who died less than 50 years ago no longer need an export licence to leave the country—but the process can still be slow

The auction house's £17.2m offering in London tonight was only 57% sold, overshadowed by the football match

All but one of the four auctioneers conducting the £153.6m marathon 20th- and 21st-century evening sale were women

Asian bidders and British art boosted figures to make auction house's highest summer total since 2018

Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Los Angeles

Philosopher Reading is now the third most expensive work by the Rococo artist to sell at auction

Two canvases by Carr blew past their estimate to become among the highest auction prices paid for her work, while a painting by 92-year-old Rita Letendre set a record for the artist

The painting was found in an Ontario thrift shop and purchased for just five Canadian dollars

Auction house chose to hold its 20th century and contemporary art evening sale in New York during what is traditionally the London season due to "detonated" calendar

A Chinese collector bought the 15th century gold and bronze Ming-dynasty sculpture of the god Vajrabhairava earlier today

Our pick of the best objects up for sale in London and New York

Sotheby’s has postponed auction of extraordinary Honresfield Library as a consortium seeks £15 million to buy it

The opulent Palais Oppenheim in Cologne will host exhibitions and sales from September. Sotheby's says move is due to growing client base in country, not Brexit

The work, which took four months to paint in 2002, will be auctioned at Sotheby's this month

Berners-Lee says NFTs are the "ideal way to package the origins behind the web"

The unique coin from 1933, part of a collection amassed by luxury shoe designer, Stuart Weitzman, sold at Sotheby's in New York yesterday

The five figures of Hindu gods once adorned a gilded temple gateway in a Unesco world heritage site

The auction is estimated to raise $3m to $4m to support efforts to end mass incarceration

A museum sells art to balance its budget, a gorgeous Sargent goes unwanted, and a painting of a giraffe reaches high.

Auction at Sotheby’s yields promising yet mixed results for museum’s drive to fund collections care

The sale was led by a classic 1932 Picasso of Marie-Thérèse at $103.4m and set new records for Alice Neel, Grace Hartigan, Barbara Hepworth and Alighiero Boetti

Plus, Heather Phillipson at Tate Britain and Ackroyd and Harvey on Joseph Beuys