Auctions
From a rediscovered Montelupo statue to a never publicly displayed Richter painting: our pick of the highlights from March's sales
Plus, a painting by an overlooked Surrealist woman artist, and a postcard by M.F. Husain, made for a friend over tea and kebabs
Kandinsky makes £37m auction record at a procedural but solid Sotheby's London evening sale
Strong Asian bidding helped secure the success of the 58-lot two-part auction, which brought the house £147m
Christie's 20th and 21st century evening sales in London represent a 32% decrease from 2022
Two-part sale spanning Impressionism to the ultra-contemporary had few headline lots—but Brexit is not to blame, auction house specialists maintain
How online buyers of luxury collectibles reshaped auctions in an economic slump
Turnover is increasing at a time of global turmoil—and it is mostly down to growing digital sales and new tastes among the 1%
Works from publishing billionaire S.I. Newhouse’s collection could bring more than $144m at Christie's
A previous group of 11 works from Newhouse's collection brought in $216.2m across two Christie's sales in 2019
Rubens portrait from Met trustee’s collection could fetch $30m at Sotheby’s
“Portrait of a Man as the God Mars” once broke the Old Master’s auction record and was on display at the Metropolitan Museum for several years
Art Bridges acquires $4.5m Robert Colescott painting at Bonhams auction
The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton
Did Vincent van Gogh get Gordina pregnant? Christie’s is selling her portrait
Coming up for auction on 28 February for £1m-£2m, the painting has been hidden in a private collection for 120 years
Go Tintin: drawing of Belgian boy detective fetches more than €2m at auction
Work sets the world record for the most valuable original black and white drawing by illustrator Hergé
Celebrated Chicago museum co-founder’s vast Outsider art collection heads to auction
A cut of the sale’s proceeds will benefit the Intuit museum as it plans for expansion
Unusually large Brueghel the Younger painting—rediscovered in France—offered at Paris auction for €600,000
The work, depicting a village scene, is being sold at Hôtel Drouot
Surrealist collection with ‘pioneering’ interest in exiled and women artists heads to Christie’s
Paintings by Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning among the 25 works to be sold in London
Powerful Old Master painting of Saint Bartholomew bought by London’s National Gallery for almost $4m
Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York
The donating game: How artists like Tracey Emin are driving philanthropy in the art world
The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?
'Wealthy collectors should put more money into art schools than auctions to keep the industry alive'
In stark comparison to recent staggering auction-house results, educators are struggling to maintain funding, says our columnist Melanie Gerlis
Early Freud beachscape painted on holiday with artist John Craxton—former friend, possible lover and bitter enemy—to be auctioned for £3.5m
Christie's will offer Scillionian Beachscape alongside a late garden scene by Freud, both of which were once in the collection of renowned patron Simon Sainsbury
Are charity art auctions, not donations, the new model for offsetting taxes?
Paul Allen’s estate has pledged proceeds of its $1.6bn Christie’s sale to unnamed philanthropic causes, while FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried vaguely promised to give away his fortune
Kim Kardashian buys amethyst cross worn by Princess Diana at Sotheby’s
A representative for the reality television star and entrepreneur emerged victorious from a five-minute bidding war
Another monumental Munch painting once hidden from Nazis in a barn heads to the block
Heirs of Jewish art critic forced to sell the work estimated at $15m now set to benefit from Sotheby’s auction
From a gruesome Old Master to a potential million-dollar superhero: our pick of the highlights from January's sales
Plus, a pair of Thornton Dial assemblages, a rare Chinese bowl and a work made out of flip-flops and suede
Paris auction house Artcurial reports best year of sales—despite a downturn in trade of 20th- and 21st-century art
A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work
Was a Vienna auction's €6,000 'copy' of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling actually by Michelangelo?
My heart-stopping research saga to find out if Dorotheum’s part-painted cartoon by a "follower" was in fact a sleeper
‘An absolute art market record’: Christie’s posts $8.4bn in sales for 2022
Single-owner collections and millennials boost auction house’s revenues despite “challenging macro environment”
Sotheby’s on track to make $8bn in 2022, the company’s highest total ever—but don’t be fooled by the top line
Fine art accounts for $5.7bn of that total, a 9.5% drop from 2021
Black American women artists represent just 0.1% of auction sales, report shows
New data shows there has been little real progress in fighting sexism and racism between 2008 and 2022
First wooden sculpture by Die Brücke founder Erich Heckel offered at auction goes on sale in Munich for €600,000
It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Marlene Dumas donates Mouth painting about women's rights for Amnesty International sale
Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris
Poland says Kandinsky painting sold at Berlin auction house was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw
Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach
Damaged Salvator Mundi copy by unknown artist sells for €1m at Christie's
Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio
From a Dutch Golden Age still-life to a Nobel Prize medal: our pick of the highlights from December's sales
Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna