Market turns on its head as buyers show less interest in the usual contemporary, blue-chip names

Bonhams has big plans to break into the contemporary Asian art market—next year

Secret legacies, family feuds and the aristocratic rakes who couldn’t resist a bet

Most works, by emerging and established artists, are valued at less than $50,000

But a new edition of the auction house’s First Open series with emerging Chinese artists also did well

Italian fashion photographer Amedeo Turello has amassed 200 images over more than 20 years

Late 18th-century Vincenzo Chilone regatta scene once owned by John and Anna Jaffé is due to be sold at Christie’s

While female painters prove Georg Baselitz wrong in the contemporary sale

Buyers look to diversify their collections with paintings by post-war artists

Two prints of his zaftig muse Sue Tilley, a rare self-portrait, and a tender sketch of Eli the whippet given as a Christmas gift to his assistant were among the 30 works sold

Writing table, which once belonged to Baron Gustave de Rothschild, is a star lot at Christie’s

Appropriated selfie part of white-glove sale, which saw new record for Mark Bradford

La Gommeuse is being sold at Sotheby’s New York with a second, irreverent work on the reverse

The “Revolution” sale anchors five other auctions moved from the winter

Geng Jianyi says the recreation of his early painting Hairdressing 2 is not by him

Buyers won’t even get a day of rest on Sunday this year as the autumn auction season spreads

The small oil on board sold for $870,000—1,000 times its high estimate—and is suspected to be part of the artist’s earliest series on the Five Senses, made while he was still a student