Auctions
Object lessons: a Broodthaers décor, the head of Sekhmet and a rare portrait of a female court jester
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Kandinsky record falls twice in patchy Sotheby’s sale
With three lots making over £20m with fees, Sotheby’s long-winded Impressionist & Modern Art auction improves on 2016 but falls just short of a stiff estimate
Collector sues Christie’s for cancelling David Hammons sale
Buyer rejects compensation offer for US artist’s body print
Object lessons: a maquette by Barbara Hepworth, a Cubistic balalaika by Ben Nicholson and a work by Venice Biennale artist Mark Bradford
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Object lessons: a portrait of Jacqueline Roque by Picasso and an image of Christ by Dalí
Andy Warhol’s first ‘selfie’ expected to fetch £7m at auction
The early self-portrait marks the moment the artist became a celebrity
Lights designed by Le Corbusier withdrawn from Paris auction at last minute
Artcurial auctioneers left surprised as sale of 100 light sconces from Firminy World Heritage site is halted
Object lessons: works of art from niche collections
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Object lessons: a relic from the Forbes family collection, a portrait of contemporary migration and a neo-Russian painting
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Old Master landscape looted by Nazis comes back on the market
The sale at Sotheby’s comes after a restitution agreement was reached between the heirs of the original owners and the trust of the most recent one
Jean Paul Riopelle abstract canvas sells for a record-setting C$7.4m
Although comparisons have been drawn to Jackson Pollock but, the Montreal-born painter “felt no special affinities” to the Abstract Expressionist's work
Object lessons: a Cuban vanguardian work, a Noguchi sculpture with a Hollywood history and a Ragamala miniature painting
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Rediscovered Rodin sculpture surfaces at auction
A never-before-exhibited version of Andromède will be offered at Artcurial with an estimate of €800,000-€1.2m
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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