Auctions
A grey single-pixel 'work' sells for $1.3m at Sotheby’s maiden NFT sale
Over 3,000 bidders purchased nearly 24,000 digital works in a three-day, multi-facted sale on Niftygateway
'Good reasons to believe this is a new Caravaggio': specialists cautiously vouch for €1,500 painting pulled from Spanish auction
Government does not want to repeat ‘export mistake’ of 1970s when another work by the Old Master ended up in the US
Christie’s to auction a slice of NFT history for $9m this May
Larva Labs created 10,000 CryptoPunks three years ago—and gave away most of them
Boo to NFTs! Hang on, think of no customs fees
As Brexit makes buying anything from Europe almost impossible, purchasing questionable digital art is almost tempting
Who bought the €13m Van Gogh? Britain’s second richest family
Montmartre painting was auctioned twice by Sotheby’s, after a bidder failed to have the necessary cash
Object lessons: from illuminated early golf memorabilia to a marble fragment with a twist
Our pick of the highlights from April's auctions
Selling, selling, sold...and sold again. The truth about the bungled sale of a Van Gogh at Sotheby's
Rare painting of a Montmartre street scene sold three times in the same auction
Benin bronzes: looted treasures will return to Nigeria at last
Plus, the newly discovered Van Gogh is sold and artist Rana Begum on Tess Jaray
In bidding confusion at Sotheby’s, unseen Van Gogh initially sells for €16.2m but is then resold for €13m at end of auction
Cross-category relay sale brought in $176.2m against high estimate of $120.5m and culminated with surprise Basquiat announcement
Sacha Jafri reveals the backbreaking process of creating 'world's largest painting' that sold for $62m
The work sold to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Andre Abdoune and all proceeds will be donated to four charities fighting child poverty
Victorian watercolours by trailblazing British feminist and social justice campaigner come up for auction
Ewbank Auctions in England has estimated the amateur paintings by Josephine Butler at around £250 each
Banksy's Game Changer sells for record £16.7m in aid of charities supporting the NHS
The work appeared suddenly last May at the University Hospital Southampton as a thank you to its staff during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Warrior becomes most expensive western work of art sold in Asia at $41.7m
The 1982 work sold today at Christie's in Hong Kong to an Asian buyer
‘Mirror pandemic’: art’s vital role in tackling the mental health crisis
A multi-agency $15m initiative backed by the WHO and funded through a series of charity auctions at Christie’s will support artist-led projects to improve mental, social and environmental health
Gaitonde breaks Indian art auction record—again—but Amrita Sher-Gil painting falls flat in uneven South Asian sales
A number of Indian artists made their auction debut this season, though several established names missed the mark
World Health Organization joins art world to launch global campaign confronting mental health toll of pandemic
Year-long series of Healing Arts auctions and events aims to support mental health treatment and recovery in the wake of Covid-19
Today’s obsession with assigning singular attribution to Old Masters may be lucrative, but it is often misleading
The cult of the individual reigns supreme but in reality Renaissance works were often not made by one hand
Members of US museums association narrowly reject proposal to contemplate a change in guidelines on art sales
Amid debate, AAMD votes 91-88 against exploring a controversial revision of rules to allow proceeds to finance collections care
Sotheby’s gets in on NFT fever with a collaboration with digital artist Pak
Auction house's head of sale Max Moore has already personally bought a work by the artist
Newly attributed Bernini drawing up for auction in France
Actéon auctioneers expect the 17th-century study of a male nude, authenticated by Ann Sutherland Harris and Louis de Bayser, to sell for €30,000 to €50,000
Sotheby’s to auction Karl Lagerfeld’s collection in Monaco
The fashion designer, who died in 2019, was an enthusiastic collector of art and design
Surrealist collection of Man Ray's assistant sells out at Christie's despite 'serious concerns about ownership' of most of the works
Ahead of yesterday's sale in Paris, the Man Ray Trust called for a delay claiming that Lucien Treillard “stole a substantial number of Man Ray’s works and possessions"
Rediscovered portrait by India's most famous female painter Amrita Sher-Gil expected to sell for $2.8m
1932 painting of artist's close friend has been out of the public eye for over 90 years but now comes up for auction at Christie's in New York
Winston Churchill's painting of Marrakech—given to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and sold by Angelina Jolie—sells for record £8.2m
Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque was one of three works by the former British prime minister sold at Christie's tonight for a total of £11.2m—to the same buyer
The 'quintessential' Art Deco smoking (or vaping) room—yours for £2m
Jean Dunand's Les Palmiers was designed for a Parisian apartment in the 1930s
Bought for around $1,000, now worth $10m: where was the newly unveiled Van Gogh landscape hidden away?
Montmartre windmill painting is on view with Sotheby’s for the first time since it left the easel
WTF are NFTs? Why crypto is dominating the art market
Plus, artist Doug Aitken on composer Terry Riley
Unseen Van Gogh painting of Paris—owned by one French family for a century—could make $10m at Sotheby’s
The rare work shows a distinctive pastoral side to the city's Montmartre neighbourhood
Sotheby's to sell the $150m collection of Texan rancher and philanthropist Anne Marion
The group of predominantly post-war art, including works by Clyfford Still and Andy Warhol, will be sold over a series of sales this spring
Christie’s to accept cryptocurrency for first time
The buyer of Beeple's NFT work will be able to pay with ETH later this month