Despite pandemic delays and the new National Security Law, the spring sales in the city last week fetched solid results

The MV Merino had gone aground on its way to Hobart for an exhibition of Modern French art in 1953

Auction house appointed to sell £1.4m of art from the beleaguered airline's collection this month

The four-hour event was intended to illustrate the auction house's global and democratic nature, but it also showed that less is often more

The view of Dresden's Zwinger moat had been returned to the heirs of Max Emden and will now be offered for sale in London on 28 July

Some big artists may be toppled from their pre-pandemic pedestals and new ones promoted to the art-as-investment pantheon

Manuscript sold at Christie's first live sale in London since the coronavirus lockdown, but academics say its ownership history should be more transparent

Highlights from the online version of the “pre-contemporary art” event for galleries and auction houses which launches today and runs until 10 July

Academics challenge the provenance of the Edo plaque as well as two Igbo alusi figures that sold under estimate for €212,500

Marathon online hi-tech auction was the first of its kind attempted by Sotheby's and totalled $363.2m, boosting confidence that a top-end market still exists

Digital transactions cannot replicate the social cachet of buying art at exclusive events—and prices will inevitably slide as a result

As part of a growing trend, Sotheby's is launching The Dealer's Eye, two sales of works consigned by nearly 40 Old Master galleries in London and New York

More than 100 objects once belonging to the Tunisian politician Habib Djellouli, including an ancient Quran, are at the centre of the controversy

Vincent describes his artist friend as having the “instincts of a wild beast”

The Germans believed Enigma was uncrackable; cryptographers at Bletchley Park broke the code, contributing to the Allies’ victory

Coinciding with the auction house's New York sale room re-opening in June, the sale marks the first time female artists will comprise over two-thirds of the value of an evening auction

Artcurial, the first auction house to reopen, doubled its sale estimate as lockdown seems to have "sharpened" buyers' appetite

Plus, Rebecca Salter on Léon Spilliaert. Produced in association with Christie's

Hybrid sale of 20th century art and design will take place over four live-streamed sessions in Hong Kong, Paris, London and New York

Ahead of his sale at Sotheby's this month, the London art dealer talks about the obsessive pursuit of knowledge and why he is not interested in contemporary art

The coronavirus lockdown is boosting lower level virtual sales, but only a major live auction will kick-start the top end of the art market and revalidate prices

Neumeister in Munich will today host a live auction for a maximum audience of 20

Move prompts fears that works from national museum collections could be sold off too

In the era of social distancing, auctioneers may have to conduct sales to an empty room

The auction house will donate all proceeds from a forthcoming online sale to the New York-based Robin Hood Foundation

Paris-based auction house Piasa hosted online sale of 370 works donated by artists, designers and galleries

Plus, Sean Scully talks about his favourite "lonely work", The Moroccans by Matisse in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Produced in association with Christie's

Christie's is also making salary cuts and has furloughed between 300-400 staff as lockdown closes auction houses and forces sales online

Move is in line with Christie's and Phillips which postponed their sales to late June, but Sotheby's is yet to announce when its auctions will actually happen