Auctions

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

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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

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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

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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

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