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'A statement in difficult times': Christie's opens new Hong Kong headquarters

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

Late Freud nude to make auction debut in London with £10m-£15m estimate

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

Ten surprises at the National Gallery’s five-star Van Gogh exhibition

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

Magritte painting could bring more than $95m at Christie's marquee New York sales this autumn

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

Christie's will become first global auction house to operate in Saudi Arabia

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

Christie’s to acquire classic car auction house

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

Nazi-era claims for two Van Goghs in Switzerland?

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

The art market slump, the artist freed in the US-Russia prisoner swap, Max Ernst in Paris — podcast

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

Bucolic Van Gogh riverscape with royal connections set to become the artist’s most expensive Paris work

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

Art marketanalysis

Global turmoil and rising taxes tilt art trade towards new era

Increasingly unsettled elites are making a struggling market even less predictable

Cranach portrait will be sold in accord between Pennsylvania museum and Jewish heirs

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

Flower power: $25m Monet Water Lily to make auction debut in Hong Kong

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

Another Schiele work returned to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum

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”

$1.2m Picasso drawing purchased with allegedly misappropriated funds recovered by US officials

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

Christie’s first half auction sales decline 22% year-on-year, to $2.1bn

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

Muted Old Master evening sales in London provide relative bargains but no fireworks

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

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'A little masterpiece': Titian's youthful canvas of 'The Rest on the Flight into Egypt', goes for auction at Christie's

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

After the Christie’s cyberattack, who could be next?

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

Art Market Eye | Who’s afraid of the big bad cyberwolf?

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

Christie’s reportedly planning layoffs

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

Christie's hit with class action lawsuit over exposure of clients' personal data in cyberattack

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

Lely portraits owned by bankrupt collector James Stunt flop at auction

Works by the painter, owned by the controversial "playboy" socialite, were offered at Christie's New York this month

Hackers claim responsibility for Christie's cyberattack and threaten to release client data

The group RansomHub say they are behind the attack that took down the auction house's website earlier this month

Nine-year-old’s exhibition opens at Christie’s

The show by the aspiring artist is supported by the auction house and the charity Art of Wishes

Art marketanalysis

Generous guarantees and a giant Warhol net a healthy $346.5m for Christie's Modern evening sale in New York

The reassuring result was a marked increase from last year's equivalent auction—despite a cyberattack that has taken down the auction house's website

Christie's makes $94.6m in New York contemporary sales despite cyberattack and star lot's withdrawal

Major results for Félix González-Torres and Jean-Michel Basquiat lifted the De la Cruz collection and 21st-century double-header

Christie’s website brought down by hackers days before marquee spring auctions

The auction giant’s web address currently redirects to a placeholder page where telephone numbers for its various offices are listed

Benjamin Sutton. With additional reporting by Carlie Porterfield

Vivienne Westwood’s personal wardrobe goes under the hammer—with a nod to Keith Haring

More than 200 items spanning 40 years will be sold with part of the sale proceeds going to charity