Auctions
Sultry Klimt portrait smashes European auction record, selling for £85.3m in London
The night's star lot made up nearly half of the £190.3m total for Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening auction
Fashion designer Paul Smith to sell his Banksy at Bonhams
The 2004 work Congestion Charge has a high estimate of £1.8m in the 29 June auction
Basel auction house prepares for first sale after being acquired by Artcurial
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer will offer a selection of works from the estate of Florence and Antoine Poncet
From a relic from Gabon to a Fauvist beach: our pick of the highlights from June's sales
Plus imposing heads by Giacometti
Police block auction of Gina Lollobrigida's art as rival heirs clash
Sale of Italian film star’s 350-piece collection halted over suspicions that her assistant pressured her to sell
Picasso portrait sells for €3.4m at Van Ham, a house record
The auction house's evening sale on 5 June was the most successful in its history
For just the third time this century, a Fra Angelico work heads to auction
Rediscovered panel painting comes to Christie’s evening sale in London next month with an estimate of £4m-£6m
Propelled by Marie Antoinette's poodle, mid-season Old Masters auctions in New York fetch nearly $13m
Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market
Ancient Greek gold coin from Crimea sells for a record-breaking £4.8m
The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government
Looted Indian sword fetches record ₤14m at Bonhams
Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m
Louise Bourgeois's record-breaking $32.8m Spider crawls to top of Sotheby's contemporary art sale
A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie's sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection
New York's Spring art bonanza: the shows, the sales, the fairs
Plus, the Richard Prince copyright case and Sarah Sze in London
Late real estate developer Gerald Fineberg’s collection comes up short at Christie’s New York
Despite the underwhelming result, the sale notched new auction records for Barkley Hendricks and Alma Thomas
The oldest Hebrew Bible in existence breaks auction record for a manuscript at Sotheby's
The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994
Christie’s kicks off New York’s spring auctions with record-breaking Rousseau
The auction house’s bottom line benefitted from the strong performance of works from the collections of S.I. Newhouse and Paul G. Allen
Photographs from Madonna’s Sex book go to auction for the first time
Proceeds from prints that were first published in the bestselling coffee table book will go toward the singer’s Malawi non-profit
Auction houses anticipate $2.2bn from New York spring sales despite cooling market
Demand for ultra contemporary works may have eased but there is little sign of a sales slump, say the New York firms
Officials in Mexico call on Dutch auction house to halt sale of pre-Columbian artefacts
Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say
Hedge to hedge: a secondary market for third-party auction guarantees is on the rise
There is a growing trend for guarantors to spread their risk by selling off parts of their guarantees—violating auction house rules
A Van Gogh Montmartre scene with sunflowers is coming up at Sotheby’s—and could fetch $30m
Looted by the Nazis, after the war it was returned to the Rothschild family
‘Duplicative’ or discarded? Whitney's sale of more Hopper works from historic bequest comes under scrutiny
Questions resurface over New York museum’s rationale for consigning works by the artist to auction
Auction Queen: hammer to fall on Freddie Mercury’s art collection at Sotheby’s
More than 1,500 lots, including original lyrics and Victorian paintings, from the rockstar’s London home will be sold in September by former girlfriend and close friend Mary Austin
Renoir, Degas and Goya works from collection of Rhode Island School of Design’s founding family head to auction
The paintings and drawings are estimated to fetch more than $8m at Christie’s New York in May
From a homoerotic Marsden Hartley to a Yoshitomo Nara painting of Michael Jackson: our pick of the highlights from April's sales
Plus, dramatic scenes from the Iliad and a delicate Modigliani head
Gauguin, Renoir and Cézanne works restituted by Musée d'Orsay head to auction at Sotheby's
Four works recently returned to heirs of the influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard will go under the hammer in New York next month
Is art once again becoming a lifestyle choice rather than an asset?
Results from the recent auction season, where young, “red-chip” artists surpassed expectations, while big names of Modern art went unsold, point to a shift in how collectors think
Sotheby's to offer rare Hammershøi painting with highest-ever estimate for the artist
"Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30", expected to sell for between $3m and $5m, was painted in the artist's most productive period
Paintings by Ed Ruscha, Philip Guston and others from major Chicago collection headed to auction at Christie’s
A group of paintings and works on paper from the collection of Alan and Dorothy Press is estimated to fetch more than $50m across multiple sales in New York this spring
Mexican authorities condemn French auction of pre-Columbian artefacts
In all, 83 artefacts scheduled to be sold in Paris next week are protected under Mexican law, authorities say
Phillips unveils new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong, promising investment in local scene after 'difficult' few years
The opening of the 52,000 sq ft Kowloon space kicked off the city's first international art week since Covid restrictions lifted