As his new book is published, the auction house chief compares coronavirus fallout to previous economic disasters

The two rivals have made record online and private sales as pandemic overturns traditional live auction format

Christie's end of season Old Masters evening sale in London totals £22.8m, despite last-minute withdrawal of Bernadino Luini's Nativity

Sales of paintings by Cézanne and Picasso worth a combined $139m are also under scrutiny by the US Virgin Island attorney general

In demand contemporary artists hit big in Asia but several Modern stalwarts failed to make a splash in multi-city hybrid auction

Online sale seeks to support a new space for art education and outreach that will open in the autumn of 2021

The portrait of David Webster will return immediately to the opera house before going to the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 for its reopening exhibition

Plus, JMW Turner at the Tate and John Stezaker on Bruegel

GANksy aims to produce images that bear resemblance to works by the UK's most famous street artist

The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations

Online auction of art and antiques that would have been exhibited at Parisian fair achieves €1.5m with 21 of 91 lots sold

Three works are to be sold at Christie’s in Paris this month; further sales to follow

Unusual $32m Jurassic-era offering stole the high-tech livestreamed show in New York, but buyers kept bids cautious elsewhere

Glut of collections have come to auction this month, with strong results for lesser-known Indian Modernists broadening a narrow market

The institution is deaccessioning its only Cranach and 11 other works to finance care of its collection

French expert Marc Restellini claims substantial modifications to Italian painter's 1915 portrait of Beatrice Hastings were not mentioned by Christie's when the picture was sold—twice

With no Frieze Art Fair, contemporary art London sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips will now take place at the end of October, when Fiac is due to open in Paris

Destinee Ross-Sutton has co-organised the online selling show Say It Loud which features works by 22 artists including Nelson Makamo and Yoyo Lander

16th century Italian marble attributed to Antonio Lombardo steals the show, but auction house's digital face is showing its age against stiff competition

Despite pandemic delays and the new National Security Law, the spring sales in the city last week fetched solid results

The MV Merino had gone aground on its way to Hobart for an exhibition of Modern French art in 1953

The four-hour event was intended to illustrate the auction house's global and democratic nature, but it also showed that less is often more

The industry remains subtly discriminatory and must abandon some obsolete ways if it is to truly change for the better

Academics challenge the provenance of the Edo plaque as well as two Igbo alusi figures that sold under estimate for €212,500

New 20th and 21st Centuries department will be led by Alex Rotter and Giovanna Bertazzoni

Artcurial, the first auction house to reopen, doubled its sale estimate as lockdown seems to have "sharpened" buyers' appetite

Hybrid sale of 20th century art and design will take place over four live-streamed sessions in Hong Kong, Paris, London and New York

Collaboration, dubbed 2020+, will take place in late September: Christie's says it is not a reaction to easing of coronavirus lockdown in Chinese city