Auctions
Strong prices for female painters and young artists—but Francis Bacon's Pope sells to the guarantor—at Phillips's $137.9m auction in New York
The 20th century and contemporary art evening sale saw stiff competition for works by Shara Hughes, Joan Mitchell, Amy Sherald and Cecily Brown
Frida Kahlo breaks record for a Latin American artist in Sotheby's $238m Modern art sale
While the auction's star lots included the $34.9m Kahlo and four Monets, the most aggressive bidding was on works by Alexander Calder and Pierre Soulages
Macklowe collection auction brings $676.1m, the highest sale total in Sotheby’s history
Bidders from Asia snapped up the sale’s two biggest lots, trophy works by Giacometti and Rothko
Four Van Goghs go for $161m in one evening in New York—double their Christie’s estimates
For the artist who failed to sell during his lifetime, there is now a surge in the market for Vincent’s late paintings
Caillebotte masterpiece goes to Getty and four auction records smashed at Christie’s New York sale of Edwin Cox’s Impressionist trove
Last night's single-owner sale of the late Texan oilman's vaunted collection brought in a massive $332m
Andy Warhol’s Muhammad Ali and other heavyweights help Christie’s make $420m in 20th-century sale in New York
Only five of the 59 lots went unsold in the auction last night
Crypto wallets at the ready: Sotheby's to accept live bidding in ethereum on two Banksy works
The auction house made Banksy's world record for the pre-shredded work Love is in the Bin
Highlights from November's auctions: from Picasso’s homage to friendship to Cy Twombly’s photographs
Our pick of the works coming up for sale in Paris, New York and Rome
Basquiat remains 'king of capital gains' as rare work fetches $40m at Christie's white-glove sale in New York
All lots sold and records were set for ten artists, including Peter Doig, Stanley Whitney, Xinyi Cheng and Nicolas Party at last night's confidence-boosting 21st-century evening auction
Christie's to sell 'The Vision', the last of Constable's famous view of Salisbury Cathedral left in private hands
The oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, has never appeared at auction before and is expected for sell for between £2m to £3m this December in London
Art dealer's huge studio ceramics collection is up for sale—including the pot that Hans Coper swapped for a goat called Jennea
Phillips and Maak Contemporary Ceramics will jointly sell the collection of the late John Driscoll on 10 November, including works by Lucie Rie, Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji
The astonishing survival of the farmhouse depicted in Van Gogh’s newly unveiled watercolour
Vincent’s picture of wheatstacks is coming up at Christie’s on 11 November—yours for around $25m
Has Impressionism still got it? This months auctions should tell us
Will the wave of young Asians buying hot young artists also wash into the higher-priced, blue-chip artists on offer in New York, or has older art lost its charm?
NFTs of Marvel book legend come to auction
Portraits of Stan Lee, a Marvel comic book writer and publisher, will be auctioned as NFTs on the Mogul platform
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham's collection is up for sale—including the sketch Barbara Hepworth gave her as a wedding present
Works owned by the St Ives artist will be auctioned at Lyon & Turnbull in London tomorrow night
Rock Legend Alice Cooper is selling the Warhol he forgot he owned—then found in his garage
The 1964 Little Electric Chair silkscreen will be auctioned in Arizona and is expected to make up to $4.5m.
Grateful Dead t-shirt sets auction record at Sotheby’s
Counterculture relic originally design by Hells Angel artist Allan "Gut" Terk sold for nearly $18,000
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