Auctions
Basquiat skull painting sells for record $110.5m at Sotheby's
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa bought the work in New York for almost double the artist's previous record
Low total for Sotheby’s first African art sale (but what is “African” art?)
Highest prices for artists already in the international art system
Christie’s comes out strong with $400m contemporary sale
Larry Gagosian snags top lot, Cy Twombly’s Leda and the Swan, for $52.9m
Object lessons: an anti-authoritarian triptych by Mike Kelley, a Western sculpture by Frederic Remington and an early work by Rosemarie Trockel
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Bidders move fast for Modern sculptures at Sotheby's New York
Competition for works by Giacometti, Ernst, Moore, and Arp drove a $173.8m Impressionist and Modern sale
Christie's New York evening sale finds success with Brancusi and Picasso
Modern works lead the way, but totals heavily weighted to top end
Object lessons: a painting of Igbo spirits by Ben Enwonwu, a whimsical collage drawing by Joan Miró and a two-faced bust by Lichtenstein
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
May sales in New York will test the trade in uncertain times
Trump-inspired post-election “wealth effect” may be waning
Van Gogh, Schiele and Beckmann to lead Christie’s Impressionist and Modern sale
June auction includes a broader range of material than ever before, breaking down traditional collecting categories
Loic Gouzer named co-chairman of Christie’s Americas post-war and contemporary art department
He has made a name for himself with thematic auctions that mix Modern and contemporary works of art
Object Lessons: a Western classic offered with its featured subject, a Roman-inspired glass dish by Carlo Scarpa and a netsuke from a vanguard collector
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Object lessons, May 2017
From a H.G. Wells-inspired print by Moholy-Nagy to a prehistoric Native American birdstone, our top picks of notable sales at auctions and fairs
Laure de Beauvau-Craon, princess and former chair of Sotheby’s France, has died, aged 74
She fought a centuries-old monopoly of the country’s auction market—and won
Sotheby’s first Modern and contemporary African art sale set to be a record-breaker
London auction includes 60 artists from 14 countries across the continent, with several making their debut
Object Lessons: studies in space and time, from an Andalusian astrolabe to a Sioux pictorial calendar
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Is this painting to be sold in Madrid really a work by Velázquez?
A specialist at the auction house Abalarte believes it could be an early portrait by the Spanish master depicting his sister
Object Lessons: a 19th-century book of photographs of William Bradford's Arctic expeditions
Our pick of highlights from this week’s auctions
Going once, going twice: how to become an auctioneer
Christie’s training reveals what it takes to get up on the rostrum
Guinness family to auction Francesco Guardi Venetian view painting
Its companion piece sold for a record £26.7m in 2011
Sotheby’s drums up German interest for Turner painting of Rhine
The Bright Stone of Honour and the Tomb of Marceau will go on show in Cologne this week
Object lessons: a Charles Nègre paper negative and a complete first edition of Goya's bullfight engravings
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
Asian clients drive strong sales at auction houses
“The market is back,” says Christie’s head—but pressure to secure top property is “huge”
Old Masters and Impressionist art from the record-setting Stillman Collection to be auctioned at Christie’s
Sales of works throughout the year will benefit the late philanthropist and land conservationist’s Wethersfield Foundation
Dubai attracts auction players
Sotheby's advances, Christie's consolidates
Christie’s plans to close South Kensington saleroom
Move is part of auction house’s shift to online sales, which more than doubled last year
Object lessons: a late Shang dynasty bronze wine vessel, a Ming dynasty dish and a sculpture by Niamh Barry
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs
Sotheby’s launches evening sale dedicated to all things small
June auction will feature works of art that can be reproduced at actual size in the catalogue
German artists capture Zeitgeist at Sotheby’s contemporary sale
Records for Wolfgang Tillmans and Georg Baselitz help auction house achieve 70% more than last year
Christie’s sale injects confidence into contemporary art auction market
Records for seven artists contribute to an increase in value of 65% on last year
Klimt helps Sotheby’s reach auction record in London
Quality works by household names bring a successful round of evening auctions to a close this week