Auctions
Object Lessons: from Chanel’s armchairs to a tobacco magnate's illuminated manuscripts
Highlights going under the hammer in this week’s international auctions
Phillips ups thresholds for buyer’s premium
Increase puts auction house’s fees in line with Sotheby’s; Christie’s a relative bargain
Object Lessons: our pick of this week's photography auctions
Highlights going under the hammer in London at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips
‘One of Picasso’s greatest Cubist portraits’ up for auction at Sotheby’s
Femme Assise has been in private hands for the past 43 years
Cheyenne Westphal to take up new role as chairman of Phillips
Auction specialist left her position as head of contemporary art at Sotheby’s last month
Tepid Impressionist and Modern sale at Christie’s concludes New York auction week
Works by Kahlo, Monet and Hepworth were high points of an otherwise average night
Paddle8 and Auctionata merge to create ‘dominant’ online auction platform
The internet auction houses have united to target the middle market and Millennial collectors
Sotheby’s bounces back with steady contemporary art sale
Auction exceeded expectations after disappointing results for Impressionist and Modern art on Monday
Christie’s sets record for Basquiat at solid contemporary art auction
Auction house served up a ‘tight, curated and profitable’ sale after reducing reserves
Disappointing Sotheby's sale shows correction at top end of the market
Last night's Impressionist and Modern auction in New York had a 66% sell-through rate
(Not) Bound to Fail: solid results for Christie's 'curated' auction in New York
Maurizio Cattelan’s Hitler statue breaks record, but sale overall comes in at lower end of pre-sale estimate
Gently does it at Phillips evening sale
Unenthusiastic bidding was bolstered by heavy guarantees, but some works hit the mark
Object lessons: the best of this week's New York auctions
From Bacon’s double self-portrait to Monet's waterlilies, three highlights going under the hammer
Bacon, Spencer and Lowry, oh my: Christie’s hits British art trifecta for 250th anniversary auction
Historic works by UK artists will anchor Defining British Art sale, while loan exhibition will bring key pieces back to public display
Barbara Hepworth’s former school to auction two of her sculptures at Sotheby's
Insurance and security costs of keeping works are partly to blame for sale
Object lessons: from a Naïve townscape to Sub-Saharan sculpture
Our pick of this week’s auctions, art fairs and gallery exhibitions
Sargent’s Poppies and Rockwell’s Road Block to lead Sotheby’s American art sales
The auction follows the glut of next week’s New York sales
Object lessons: from Dali’s diary to a Yongzheng vase
Our pick of this week’s auction highlights
Koons’s kitschy kids and Dubuffet’s beard lead New York sales at Phillips
The works are the first major offerings to come up in a crammed week of auctions
Object lessons: the best of London’s Islamic sales
From Iranian "vase" carpets to a rare figurative Iznik dish, here's our pick of this week's auction highlights
Christie’s gears up for an evening of 'failure'
Curated sale to include Koons's floating basketballs and Cattelan's kneeling Hitler
Nazi-looted Old Master painting withdrawn from Austrian auction at France’s request
Painting by Bartholomeus van der Helst once belonged to famous Schloss Collection coveted by Hitler and Göring
Object lessons: from a pint-sized El Greco to a Turkish bokche
Our pick of this week’s auction and art fair highlights
Object lessons: from MoMA's Man Ray to a Ming moon flask
Our pick of this week’s auction and art fair highlights
Exodus continues at Sotheby’s with worldwide head of contemporary art Cheyenne Westphal set to leave
Departure follows that of co-head Alex Rotter last month
Doctors without Borders to sell rare Duchamp nude at Paris auction to fund its field operations
The painting was recently classified as a National Treasure, however, which means it cannot leave France