Auctions
Object lessons: a double-spiral nail work by Günther Uecker from the collection of Helge Achenbach and other auction highlights
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Former Met director sparks Instagram spat over $450m Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Campbell posted an image of the Salvator Mundi before conservation, triggering a row with its former co-owner Robert Simon and Christie’s Loic Gouzer
Last painting by British Pop art co-founder Pauline Boty to be auctioned
BUM was created just before Boty died of cancer aged 28 in 1966
John Lennon’s stolen diaries found by Berlin police
Journals and other personal effects were discovered at auction house, reports say
Painting looted from Hitler withdrawn from auction in Cologne
Franz von Stuck’s portrait of two girls was due to be sold at Van Ham
Object lessons: late works by Maria Lassnig and Di Cavalcanti and a creative chair by Roy Lichtenstein
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Emily Kame Kngwarreye painting sells for $1.6m, breaking record for an Australian female artist
Aboriginal work, Earth’s Creation I, was shown at the 2015 Venice Biennale
Phillips and Sotheby's deliver healthy totals for contemporary art
Capping an epic week of auctions, solid results featuring records for female artists and a Ferrari bode well for market's future—so long as it doesn't overheat
Egon Schiele drawings in private hands for 85 years surface on the market
Dorotheum sale piques interest, pre-empting centenary of the artist’s death next year
Analysis: Christie's postwar and contemporary auction nets $785.9m, with a big assist from an Old Master
Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi sells for $450m at Christie's New York
Price makes it the most expensive painting of all time
Solid $269.7m at Sotheby's maintains momentum in Impressionist and Modern market
New York sale results boosted by strong Asian and Russian buying, and shored up by guarantees
Painting looted from Hitler to be auctioned in Cologne
Van Ham to offer Franz von Stuck portrait in 17 November sale
World's largest collection of manuscripts from bankrupt firm Aristophil to be sold in Paris
Auctioneer Claude Aguttes will sell the collection of historic books and manuscripts across 300 sales over at least six years as part of liquidation
Christie’s $479.3m Impressionist and Modern sale hits highest total since 2007
Pent-up demand for top material kicks off New York's key auction week, with a $81.3m Van Gogh and records for Léger, Magritte, Man Ray and Vuillard
Surfacing on the market: macabre mourning jewellery and a bronze cast by Camille Claudel
Our pick of this month's most interesting auctions
Ai Weiwei to auction cat toy sculpture for Syrian children
Proceeds from Berlin sale, which also includes works by Rosemarie Trockel and Tomás Saraceno, will benefit Kayany Foundation
Optimism abounds heading into November auctions in New York
Discretionary sellers gain confidence in the market and Christie's leads its contemporary sale with Da Vinci—but recent overreaches sound a cautionary note
Massachusetts Appeals Court grants injunction to block Berkshire Museum sale
The successful Hail Mary pass came just before deaccessioned works, including two paintings by Norman Rockwell, were due to be auctioned at Sotheby’s on Monday
Object lessons: a painting from Max Ernst's Arizona period, a Kurt Schwitters Merz collage, and a Cubistic still life by Jean Metzinger
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Berkshire Museum art sale to go ahead
A judge in Massachusetts has denied two motions to block next week’s auctions of deaccessioned works
Paris photo auctions focus on single-owner sales
Led by a major Man Ray, auctions at Christie's, Sotheby's and Leclere play to sophisticated collectors in town for the Paris Photo fair
Sotheby’s expect First World War painting by Nevinson to make £1m
Last sold 50 years ago, A Dawn depicts French troops marching to trenches through Flanders in 1914
Object lessons: a print by Edvard Munch, a Zsolnay charger and a poster for TFL by Jean Dupas
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Norman Rockwell’s sons file temporary restraining order in Massachusetts court
Two works by their father are among 40 that were due to be sold by the Berkshire Museum
Auctioneers look to fashion world to increase online sales
Houses beef up digital teams by hiring from the fashion industry in a bid for new revenue streams
The irresistible rise of Light and Space
Once overlooked as regional artists, West Coast pioneers have emerged from the shadows since the first edition of Pacific Standard Time in 2011
Artsy and the rise of the matchmaker market
In the bricks-versus-clicks shakeout, the new power players in online auctions are harvesting data from both the supply and demand sides
SJ Phillips: downsizing but “not closing down”
Long established London jewellers will hold sale at Sotheby’s following move to smaller premises, but director insists it is “business as usual”
Object lessons: unseen photographs of the Romanovs, an early Ken Price ceramic work, and Sadie Coles's own Neo Rauch painting
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions