Auctions
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sotheby’s to hold first sale in Dubai
Christie’s moves October auction to London as rival plans first sale in the UAE
Sotheby’s organises selling exhibition to commemorate a century of De Stijl
It is the only exhibition dedicated to De Stijl to be organised outside of Europe this year
Adventurous art collection of Jerome and Ellen Stern comes to Sotheby’s
More than 250 works owned by the couple will feature across ten auctions
Howard Hodgkin’s wildly eclectic collection goes on the block at Sotheby’s
Turkish tiles, Persian carpets and Modern British works graced the late artist’s Bloomsbury home
Wright to auction the personal collection of Hudson, iconoclastic gallerist and artists’ champion, in Chicago
The man behind Feature Inc is remembered for his challenging eye—and a fraught relationship with the market
Sotheby’s releases sales dates and estimates of works from Berkshire Museum
The auction house will offer works from the Massachusetts museum, including two major Rockwell paintings, starting 13 November and running through next spring
Object lessons: a Zulu lidded vessel, a bowl by Dame Lucie Rie and a painting by Irma Stern
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