Auctions
Surfacing on the market: Le Corbusier’s souvenir of Sydney
Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Jørn Utzon Collection, 9-11 June
Surfacing on the market: the other Fabergé
Doyle, New York, Belle Epoque: 19th- and 20th-century Decorative Arts, 3 June
Guaranteed to smash records: Manhattan sales set new highs
Almost $2.5bn was spent on art in just six evening auctions last month, as the market is pushed to new levels for trophy works
Why Russian art has been left in the cold
And what can be done in the face of the country’s crippling political and economic crisis
First work from Gurlitt hoard goes under the hammer
Sotheby’s to auction looted painting by Liebermann that was returned to heirs last week
Art collection of bankrupt German art consultancy to go under hammer
Sale of more than 2,000 works from Helge Achenbach's company expected to fetch between €3m and €4.5m
Photo London leads charge to bring photography market to UK
New fair—plus auctions and gallery shows—champion the reproducible image this week
Online auctioneer invests in London’s bricks and mortar
Paddle8 moves to new premises in Mayfair
In New York auctions $2bn already spent but no one is that surprised
Most works at Christie’s auction on Wednesday were guaranteed to sell including Lucian Freud's reclining nude, which fetched an ample price
With $1.45 billion already spent at auctions, it could be a record-breaking week in New York
Sotheby’s totalled $379.7m for its contemporary art auction on Tuesday evening, while Christie's raised $705.9m the night before
Dispute over 13th-century painting stolen by one of its owners has been resolved
Questions remain over authorship of panel that could be by Duccio
Christie's breaks the record again
Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger is priciest work ever sold at auction, fetching almost $180m in New York <br>
Sotheby’s stands alone and sweeps up $368.3m at Impressionist sales
The auction house took a chance sticking to a schedule that clashed with the Venice Biennale’s opening—and it paid off
Duchess of Roxburghe’s estate sale to fund restoration of derelict mansion
Sotheby’s to auction the contents of West Horsley Place, including a study for Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June
Surfacing on the market: Soviet propaganda served up on a plate
Lempertz, Berlin, Berlin Sale, 2 May
Online auctions: in a permanent revolution until someone gets it right
Sotheby’s has launched its third model, back in tandem with eBay, while its numerous competitors are trying many different methods to grow internet sales
Surfacing on the market: Champion of the common man
Leslie Hindman, Chicago, Property from the Collection of Carol and Richard Levin, 20 May
French minister shakes up auction regulation
New law would dilute powers of the “commissaires-priseurs” system and give responsibility to non-experts
Three quarters of new collectors buy art online for investment, study finds
But buyers are not risking large sums, with the majority of works still priced below £10,000
Notebook owned by the father of computer science to be auctioned
The journal that Alan Turing used to jot down his thoughts on a universal language was later turned into a dream diary by one of his student
Chinese billionaire’s buying spree continues unabated
Liu Yiqian bought a Song Dynasty <i>guan</i> vase for $14.7m at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this week
