The hip hop legend worked with the record executive Jimmy Iovine and Sotheby’s to put on the event, which also featured performances by the producer Timbaland and the singer Andra Day

Christie’s was due to support the sale of Wolfgang Flatz's tattooed tissue

A resurgence in top-end spending would only reprise the recent status quo

The auction next month will include 100 pieces acquired by Josef Müller and his family

Pop artist’s paintings have seven-figure prices, but his prints are available for just a few hundred dollars at New York sale

Scattered seven-figure highlights failed to make up for dozens of passed lots and multiple key withdrawals

The auction house Im Kinsky estimates the price of the 1917 painting at between €30m and €50m

Portrait of Isabel de Borbón was due to go on sale on 1 February

Auction mastermind Loïc Gouzer reveals why a cab driver's name was a very good omen

A 'nagging sense of lawlessness' persists despite the industry's periodic rebuttals

A painting depicting Pope Sylvester I made €3m, while a portrayal of Saint Helena more than doubled its high estimate, selling for €1.6m

Evening sales at Sotheby's and Christie's drew in £19.4m and £21.3m, respectively

Auction purchases by Arab cultural entities overcome early uncertainties of Israel-Hamas war

Middling performance of such auctions throughout 2023, with high costs and some sales coming in below their estimates, made a “sure thing” look less so

Fifty years later, history suggests the infamous sale from the collection of Robert and Ethel Scull is not quite the art market precedent it is remembered as

The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's

Plus, a small biblical scene by Rembrandt and a Hever Roman marble

The auction house, Grisebach, says the sketchbook’s candidacy for the list will not affect plans for today’s sale

The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total

Sotheby’s is selling an alabaster piece while Bonhams’ early carving is made from ironstone

Plus, experimental art from the Eastern Bloc and a sculptural installation by Terry Adkins

Two activists affiliiated with the group Extinction Rebellion took to the rostrum during a sale of works on paper

The house’s two-part auction fell short of the low estimate but still became its second-best showing ever by dollar value

The auction, spanning Monet to Miró, made $190.3m—just above its low estimate—and was preceded by the record-breaking sale of a Ferrari car

The star auctioneer is leaving Christie's after 38 years to share his experience "with a new generation of collectors"

The evening's total take of $406.4m was a sign of a stability—albeit one under-girded by guarantees and third-party backing—in a jittery market

Several 'wet paint' works soared while multiple blue-chip lots underperformed, defying conventional market wisdom

Results from London’s premier autumn auctions suggest price now matters as much as prestige

Traditionally reserved for an artist’s greatest works, the term “masterpiece” now appears routinely in auction catalogues, and may just mean a work is good, novel—or expensive

Hilda Graetz sold 'Still Life With a Cup' to fund her new life in South Africa after her art dealer father died in a concentration camp