Auctions
Strawberry painting by Chardin makes €24m at Artcurial Paris, smashing the French artist's auction record
The New York dealer Adam Williams bought the fruity still-life
The original NFT? Sotheby's to offer a receipt for an invisible work by Yves Klein for €500,000
The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold
Bonhams continues acquisitions spree with purchase of Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen
The firm bags a second Scandinavian auction house as sector consolidation continues
Shotgun the Warhol: Christie's to sell Shot Sage Blue Marilyn for $200m
The painting, being sold by the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation, could become the most expensive 20th century work of art ever sold at auction when it is offered in New York in May
A Canova statue—lost in an English garden for decades and bought for £5,200—will be sold at Christie's London for £8m
The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years
Major Surrealist paintings make auction debut at Sotheby's Paris, including Picabia's very modern muse
The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"
Picasso bronze deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum could bring $30m at Christie’s
The sale of the canonical early Cubist sculpture will bolster the museum’s acquisitions fund and at no great cost to its collection, which includes another edition of the work
Cornelia Parker and Anselm Kiefer donate works to raise money for £14.5m Warburg Institute redevelopment
Phillips will sell 16 works in aid of the London University institution tomorrow
Franz Marc's £42.6m Foxes leads Christie's marathon Shanghai-London auction of Modern and contemporary art
The sprawling 20th and 21st century sale took over five hours and spanned Boudin to Banksy
Revealed: Van Gogh landscape once owned by Yves Saint Laurent coming up for sale, valued at $45m
Christie’s is to offer the never-exhibited painting in a New York auction in May
Sotheby's unveils second $200m tranche of works from the Macklowe collection
The works, by artists such as Warhol, Richter and Giacometti, will be sold in New York in May
Rubens could become most expensive work of art ever sold in Poland
Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month
National Australia Bank to sell off its $7.2m contemporary art collection next week
Proceeds from the auctions, at Deutscher and Hackett and Leonard Joel, have been earmarked for climate change programme, but questions arise over bank's motivations
Valentine's Day card designed by New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern auctioned by Wellington theatre
Van Gogh’s depiction of two lovers—sliced out of a landscape painting—comes up for sale
Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m
Object lessons: from a 16th-century angel to a jaunty walking stick
Our pick of the highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
Botticelli: my worries about the Man of Sorrows
The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution
Bacon and beasts: an in-depth look at the visceral new show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco
Jewish icons or anti-Semitic memorabilia? The growing market for Nazi-era artefacts—and the Israeli collectors buying them
On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we spoke with Eyal Ilya, owner of Pentagon Auction House in Israel, about the trend for Second World War artefacts
Lucian Freud's portrait of muse and fellow artist Janey Longman to be auctioned for first time with £15m price tag
Painting, acquired by private British collector “from the easel” in 1987, will be sold at Christie's in London in March
Van Ham auction house to sell inventory of insolvent Galerie Michael Schultz
Schultz, who died last month, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion he cheated customers
Could it be magic? Singer Robbie Williams to auction three Banksy works worth more than £10m at Sotheby’s
Former Take That star acquired the works directly from the artist’s studio in the mid-2000s
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s personal library for sale at Bonhams
The sale traces her intellectual development from a law student and avid reader to one of the most recognizable justices on the Supreme Court.
Long walk to nowhere: auction of items owned by Nelson Mandela cancelled due to brewing dispute in South Africa
Proceeds from the sale were meant to fund a memorial garden and museum around the freedom fighter’s burial site
Not a single bid for the $500m Casino Ludovisi with its Caravaggio and Guercino
This Roman villa with its great masterpieces will be re-offered on 7 April at a 20% lower valuation
What's a Caravaggio worth if it’s on a ceiling and you may not remove it for sale? We'll soon find out
The Ludovisi Casino in Rome, with its masterpiece frescoes, is up for auction by the courts, estimate nearly half a billion euro
Crypto group shamed for spending $3m on ‘Dune’ book, mistakenly believing it had acquired copyright to produce NFTs
The group Spice DAO planned to sell NFTs based on the contents of the book, which details Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but failed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel
'Cancelled' Madonna and Child found beneath Botticelli's $40m Man of Sorrows
Infrared images of the painting, which is due to be sold at Sotheby's in New York later this month, show that an earlier composition lies underneath
Rediscovered Bernhard Strigel painting found in a Toulouse home expected to sell for up to €800,000
The panel is thought to be the pair of Strigel's Thurifer Angel, which was bought by the Louvre Abu Dhabi in Paris in 2008
One of the world's biggest collections of German Expressionism heads to auction
Hermann Gerlinger had been loaning his 1,000 works to museums, but will now sell them through Munich-based auction house Ketterer Kunst





























