Expecting the worst, French, German and Austrian auction houses have been surprised by how well sales have held up through the pandemic

Proceeds from the pieces sold at Sotheby’s Paris in February will go towards the artist duo's estate

Why are Asians in hot pursuit of art, and what are they buying?

Christie's end of season Old Masters evening sale in London totals £22.8m, despite last-minute withdrawal of Bernadino Luini's Nativity

The pandemic has forced a resolutely analogue trade to go digital. Despite the technical hurdles, the results have surprised even traditionalists

Almost half of the auction's total sales value was bought by Asian buyers, but 12 lots sold below their estimates

The 17th century painting of a young girl blowing on brazier by the French baroque painter sold at Lempertz in Germany today

Sales of paintings by Cézanne and Picasso worth a combined $139m are also under scrutiny by the US Virgin Island attorney general

Sheltering from a rainstorm at the mill, Vincent and his brother Theo made a teenage pact

In demand contemporary artists hit big in Asia but several Modern stalwarts failed to make a splash in multi-city hybrid auction

Online sale seeks to support a new space for art education and outreach that will open in the autumn of 2021

In an increasingly asset-driven art trade, collecting by listening to the buzz is fast becoming the norm

The portrait of David Webster will return immediately to the opera house before going to the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 for its reopening exhibition

Penitent Magdalene by Salaì, who entered Leonardo's workshop at the age of ten, was estimated at €100,000 to €150,000 and is one of only a handful of known works by the artist

Sworder's auction house is selling the work, which is one of many by the Romantic painter depicting the area around Dedham Vale where he grew up

The works are from the estate of the artist’s teenage “muse and model” Frédérique Tison, who was also his step-niece

A dwindling middle market faces a stingy Senate while rising inequality and public unrest could prompt even more private sales

The singer has donated his "Jackson Pollocky" painting to a GeeWizz charity auction alongside hand-written song lyrics and other memorabilia

Plus, JMW Turner at the Tate and John Stezaker on Bruegel

Following weeks of controversy, the Baltimore Museum of Art withdrew two paintings just hours before the auction while many other works sold near low estimates

Last-gasp decision after talks with the US museum directors association comes just before a Sotheby’s auction

Criticism in Israel reached an apex when President Rivlin called for the state to prevent the London auctions

Plus, the artist Jennifer Packer on a Buddhist mural in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations

“The greatness of the BMA’s collection does not live within three individual paintings,” she says as the sale of a Warhol, Still and Marden approaches

As part of the deal, Roland and Jane Cowan acquired the faux Impressionist canvas from the artist—it sold last night at Sotheby's

A flurry of museum pieces is heading to auction, but will there be enough buyers for them?

Last sold at auction for $4.9m, offers on the work will be reviewed ahead of the auction house's contemporary and Impressionist and Modern art evening sales on 28 October in New York

While the top lot of the night—a fiery self-portrait by George Baselitz—struggled to meet its low estimate, a bidding war broke out over Dana Schutz's painting of a bright orange Trump

Letter asks Maryland attorney general and secretary of state to investigate planned deaccessioning of a Warhol, Still and Marden