Auctions
William Rubin Kota becomes most expensive work of African art sold at Christie's France
Wooden sculpture that inspired Cubism fetches €5.5m in Paris
Sell-off of bankrupt German art consultancy’s collection begins
Around 2,500 works have been offered to cover company's debts
Gauguin painting’s $300m price tag may have been confirmed
Museo Reina Sofia acknowledges eye-watering figure in press statement
Gambling millionaire bets on YBA works
David Walsh to sell Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary along with pieces by Chapman Brothers, Damien Hirst and Jenny Saville
Klimt portrait to be auctioned
Proceeds will be shared between the Klimt Foundation and the heirs of the sitter
Calls to open looted-art archives grow louder
Museums and the trade want to put an end to the Catch-22 situation with Medici and Becchina
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