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

Christie's and Sotheby's are starting to embrace what the social media platform has to offer

The evening of sales in New York totalled $439.6m, with Basquiat's Versus Medici topping the contemporary art offering at $50.8m and a new record for Leonor Fini

Sotheby's auction of the Texan rancher's collection totalled $157.2m and set new records for Kenneth Noland, Larry Rivers and Richard Diebenkorn

Pieces came from the collection of late New York heart surgeon who befriended the artist in the 1960s

But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple

The $210.4m sale included new highs for contemporary artists like Mickalene Thomas, Jordan Casteel and Lynette Yiadom Boakye, while some established names fell flat

Our pick of the best objects up for sale in New York, Dallas and Paris

The work is expected to fetch up to £12m in a live sale at Christie's London this July

The 17th century painting of the Earl of Strafford, recently discovered to have been in the Royal collection, is expected to sell for up to £5m in London in July

Painting is the only surviving contemporary image of the monarch