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Modigliani breaks auction record in France

Christie's Paris sold the work to an anonymous phone buyer

Art marketarchive

Trends in collecting: Are domestic collectors ready to take on the world?

While the Russians are branching out, Indian collectors don't stray far from home

Art marketarchive

Key lots: Post-war and contemporary

Yves Klein, Günther Uecker, and Peter Doig are this season's highlights

Art marketarchive

Contemporary Art auction report: Warhol’s dollar bills attract big bucks in New York sales

The market has recalibrated, but major pieces spark highly charged bidding wars

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A surprise show of strength at Frieze week post-war and contemporary auctions

Houses keep their heads above water with wider international selection

Christie'sarchive

Top quality old masters under the hammer next month

Rembrandt, Domenichino, Raphael and Van Dyck all on offer, but how many will remain in the UK?

Art marketarchive

Russian art at auction: Buyers wary of unpredictable prices

Mixed results as contemporary art nosedives while earlier works avoid the worst

Art theftarchive

Indonesian antiquities thefts show no sign of abating

Fakes left in place of stolen artefacts in elaborate webs of deceit

Francis Bacon, Man in Blue VI, 1954

(est £4m-£6m), the work remains unsold

Art marketarchive

Buyer of Warhol’s Green Car Crash revealed?

The large-scale “disaster painting” is the most expensive Andy Warhol ever to sell at auction

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Contemporary sales, London: Phillips struggles in bid to lead auction week

But Bacon brings profitable business to Christie’s and Sotheby’s

Art marketarchive

British Art Auction report: The Bacon and Freud effect

Recent record prices for the two artists boosted results for 20th-century British works, while Victorian art struggled

Pinault sells shares in auction group

The billionaire entrepreneur bought a majority stake in 2000

Iranian artists triumph at Christie's Dubai as contemporary market hits its stride

Christie's '08 auction report sees the mediocre pushed aside to make way for big names

Collectorsarchive

Roman Abramovich brings home the $86.3m Bacon and the $33.6m Freud

The London-based Russian billionaire has bought the record-breaking works; he has not previously been known to collect art

Dealers’ selling of works through auction houses is short-sighted and self-defeating

Collaboration between the two spheres does not always benefit the market

Art marketarchive

Martin Lawrence Galleries files suit to claim stolen Warhol

Jason Beltrez claims it was a flea market find while Christie's is stuck in the middle

Amsterdam sale concludes Goudstikker series

Old masters, recovered as a result of one of the world’s largest Nazi restitution claims, net $20m

RCA to sell Bacon as part of fundraising campaign

Proceeds will go towards new campus in Battersea

Collectorsarchive

France finally gets to see Pinault’s art in new exhibition

The owner of Christie's to show works from his personal collection for the first time

Art marketarchive

Christie’s Warhol could set new record in New York

The work is one of the “Death and Disaster” series which rarely come on the market