Auctions
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
Podcast episode five: what's the story behind the $100m Leonardo?
What will happen when the only painting in private hands by the Renaissance master heads to auction? Plus: the New Museum's big new show on gender, and our literary editor talks 18th-century princesses
Christie's to sell Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
The painting, presumed lost until 2005, is estimated at $100m
Record breaking Chinese brush washer points to demand for Song ceramics in Hong Kong
At HK$294.3m, the Ru ware piece set a record for a Chinese ceramic at Sotheby's during Hong Kong's busy autumn auction and fair series
Christie’s ends London contemporary auctions on a high note—despite Bacon flop
Market’s appetite shows no signs of flagging for fresh works that are correctly priced
Subdued Sotheby’s sale, despite record for Josef Albers
Contemporary auction followed a lacklustre Italian sale, prompting calls for the latter to be shelved
Art world raises money for Grenfell
Sotheby's auction will include work donated by leading artists
Object lessons: a life-sized drawing by Charles White, a painting by Turner Prize nominee Hurvin Anderson and an early Bauhaus work by Xanti Schawinsky
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
Auction record for Mapplethorpe as Christie's introduces two new sales
Photographer took self-portrait a year before he died in 1989
The market boom for Basquiat
A year after his death, MoMA turned down an offer of the artist’s work. Today, the appetite for his paintings has never been greater
Dreweatts and Bloomsbury get new owner
Art advising and valuations firm Gurr Johns steps in, citing "huge opportunities" in London auction market's lower levels
Object lessons: an imperial jadeite censer, a Tibetan bronze of Akshobhya and a rare Ru guanyo brush washer
Our pick of highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
Sotheby’s to hold first sale in Dubai
Christie’s moves October auction to London as rival plans first sale in the UAE