The interior designer Mica Ertegun's Surrealist L'empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with a new high also set for Ed Ruscha

The most valuable lot of the week is a record-breaking Magritte with a third-party guarantee, but the most talked-about is a conceptual still life by Maurizio Cattelan

Christie's acquisition of Gooding & Company has renewed focus on collectible automobiles

Auction house chief executive argues that of greater concern is the decline of Europe's art market as America and Asia charge ahead

The 1964 painting was a prominent feature in the artist’s recent travelling retrospective

The auction house runs two auctions that place web3 increasingly at the heart of the traditional art market

Despite some tense moments and a difficult market, the event proved solid, 'affirming' the auction house's decision to scrap June sales

The firm's first major sale in its new Hong Kong headquarters saw spirited bidding for contemporary works and regional records for paintings by Van Gogh and Monet

The auction house will hold its first live evening sale in the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Henderson Building today

Ria, Naked Portrait (2006-07) depicts an art handler who approached the artist, then in his 80s, to pose for the painting

Visitors will be ‘blown away’ by the masterpieces—but there are intriguing and little-known stories behind many of the loans

If it goes for the auction house's estimate, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), from the collection of late interior designer Mica Ertegun, would set an auction record for the Surrealist artist

With the announcement of Riyadh-based managing director Nour Kelani, the firm hopes to deepen ties with the Kingdom's collectors and ambitious cultural projects

Gooding & Company was founded in 2003 by a former Christie’s director

Acquired by the arms dealer Emil Bührle, both have been on loan to a Zurich museum

What’s behind the troubles facing auction houses and galleries? Plus, Sasha Skochilenko recounts her experience of being arrested—and incarcerated—in Russia, and the story behind a 1937 Surrealist painting by Ernst

“Moored Boats”, the “gem in the crown of the Bourbon collection”, will be auctioned in Hong Kong

Increasingly unsettled elites are making a struggling market even less predictable

The portrait of the Duke of Saxony, attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder and his workshop, will be auctioned by Christie’s in New York in January 2025

The work will headline the inaugural sale at Christie's new Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters in the Henderson building

The 1918 drawing had been in the possession of another Austrian Jewish family, which recently became suspicious of the work's provenance and contacted Grünbaum’s heirs directly in order to “do the right thing”

The work on paper, purchased at Christie’s New York in 2014, was allegedly paid for with money embezzled from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign investment fund

But consistent strength in its sell-through rate and Asia Pacific buyer base show the auction house's ‘resilience’ amid obstacles

Slim auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's saw a rediscovered Quentin Metsys and a modestly priced Botticelli come to the block

The painting previously sold at Christie’s for £254,500

The Venetian master's exquisite early depiction of the Holy Family, once recovered in a bag at a bus-stop seven years after being stolen from Longleat House, is estimated to fetch £15m-£25m in London sale

A hack that caused huge disruption to the auction house is a wake-up call to galleries and art advisories of all sizes

Christie’s was hit by ransomware hackers—and now by a class action suit

Rival Sotheby’s recently entered a consultation period ahead of redundancies

The complaint, filed on 3 June by a Dallas-based customer, is the latest problem for the auction house following a major cyberattack