Auctions
Richter’s Eisberg to loom large at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale
Rare outing on the market for a landscape by the German artist best known for his abstract paintings
Auctionata Paddle8 files for insolvency to restructure business
Paddle8 announces it has an investor to lead buy back from parent company
Object lessons: from an early John Piper gouache at London Art Fair to a gold leaf cabinet by Paul Evans
Our pick of highlights from this week's fairs and auctions
‘The Odyssey of Collecting’: Phillips to auction works from the Joy of Giving Something foundation
A 2014 sale of photographs from the non-profit's collection set an auction record
Rothko and Rauschenberg to lead Christie’s London auction in March
Weak pound and successful museum shows means increased audience for Post-war American artists
French government places export bar on €15m Leonardo da Vinci drawing
State has 30 months to buy newly discovered work hailed as a “national treasure”<br> <br>
Qianlong seal scooped up by Chinese collector for €21m at Paris auction
The object, owned by one of China’s longest serving emperors, sold for more than 20 times its estimate
Object lessons: from Paris street scenes to an ancient Egyptian statue of Sekhmet
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
Heart-pounding discovery of rare Leonardo da Vinci drawing
The double-sided work, valued at €15m, depicts Saint Sebastian on its front and optical studies by the Old Master on the reverse
London's Old Master sales bolstered by private collections
Major surprise was last-minute withdrawal of Goya sketch at Christie's
Bonhams Los Angeles offers rare Quahog pearl that escaped the dinner table
New England grad student found the gem in a bag of clams he bought for $25
Christie’s chairman Brett Gorvy leaves auction house to join forces with New York dealer Dominique Lévy
The head of postwar and contemporary art has presided over the category’s explosive growth
Goya, Constable and Brueghel headline Old Master auctions in London
Tefaf New York proved there is life in the market—can this week's sales do the same?
London's Russian sales buoyed by rare Rodchenko and Chashnik works
Market see upswing as buyers' confidence grows
Gun fired at Arthur Rimbaud sells for €434,000
Poet's lover Paul Verlaine shot at him with the weapon in 1873 but only grazed his wrist
New York sales defy fears of downturn
Fewer trophy works this season, but solid totals and record prices for several artists
King of the mountain: $11m Lawren Harris painting breaks all records for Canadian art
The Group of Seven artist, a favourite of the comedian and collector Steve Martin, hit his peak at Toronto sale
Auction houses avoid Chinese New Year clash
Growing Asian purchasing power precipitates alterations to sales calendars
Object lessons: from a monumental Art Deco sculpture to a German Symbolist painting
Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions
Ames collection helps Sotheby’s bring strong result in contemporary art auction
Young star Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s work fetches more than $1m, ten times previous record
Monet's Grainstack fetches $81.4m at Christie's, setting a new auction record for the artist
But mixed results at the Impressionist and Modern Art sale in New York reflect continued cautious market
Phillips on an upswing with $111.2m 20th-century art sale
The hammer total was below estimate, but met the auction house’s modest expectations for “a contracted market”
De Kooning painting sells for record $66m at Christie’s New York
Post-war and contemporary evening auction sees several big sales but still falls short of last year’s total
Munch’s Girls on the Bridge fetches more than $50m in bellwether New York auction
Solid results for Sotheby’s in first sale after Trump's election victory, but László Moholy-Nagy gets the only artist record
Bidding war for Bowie's angst-ridden Auerbach in record-breaking sale
Musician collected unfashionable works by British artists as well as Basquiat and Tintoretto
Looted Constable returned by Tate heads to auction at Christie’s
Heirs of Hungarian baron are selling Beaching a Boat, Brighton
Object lessons: from Cartier-Bresson Spanish street scene to Bowie's sculptural Auerbach
Our pick of highlights from the week's auctions and Paris Photo
Sotheby’s reports $54.5m in losses in third quarter
Continuing slump is tempered by online sales in the low and middle market, and a look to greater China for future growth
Sex sells: Paris’s Musée de l’Érotisme collection hits the auction block
The museum in the Pigalle red light district closed its doors, but you can take home one of its naughty objects
Object lessons: from Pissarro's rare colour print to Avedon's slaughterhouse worker
Our pick of highlights from the week's auctions and Asian Art in London