Asian buyers are now the biggest spenders at international auctions and these digitally-native collectors are happy to splurge online

More than 70 works designated as national heritage are due to be sold in Munich on 21 September

The work features a 1:10 loop of a business-class white man standing on an auction block

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

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

Auction house will sell the 65 works, including $70m works by Rothko and Giacometti, in two standalone sales in November and next May

Our pick of the highlights from this month's fairs and auctions

The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities

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)

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"

Modi, who is currently held in Wandsworth Prison in London, is wanted for allegedly defrauding a state bank of £729m

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