While Chinese sustain the middle market for rare but flashy cinnabar, rhinoceros horn and cloisonné

Following recent purchase of Palazzo Grassi

One buyer pays against the odds for Sean Scully, while new records are set for Chilida, Hockney and Baselitz, among others

American buyers have returned and Asian collectors were also active

Iran argues that the artefact was acquired through criminal means, although their failure to speak out when the fragment went to auction previously may undermine their case

A week of new records will leave dealers wondering how to set their prices

The Art Newspaper requested full information

The finest piece of 18th-century Florentine craftsmanship will go on public show in his Vienna museum this year

Collector sheikh stalemates art export process

Christie’s follows Sotheby’s and appoints a director of restitution

V&A thirsts for flask

Corbis already represents the archives of Christie’s, Reuters, Condé Nast, and the Ansel Adams Trust

Bacon and Auerbach triumphed as Sotheby’s and Christie’s racked up impressive totals

Some big collectors have stopped buying and bidders held back

Yeats and Orpen run out of steam

Nine Modern paintings from the MoMA collection go on sale at Christie’s this month - is it to fund the purchase of the Hirsts at Tate?

Sotheby's and Christie'shave been working with Cambodian authorities and organisations in the art world

Valued at $3 million, Roman bronze statue also boasts impeccable provenance

Rediscovered Rembrandt made £6.9 million

Paris auctions were poor except for Pre-Colombian works

Sotheby’s scored a superior strike rate, but marginally lower proceeds

Following rumours that Pinault is struggling financially

Set at the estmate of $5/7 million,the Providence Athenaeum Library is launching this deaccession to maintain landmark building

Problematic Warhols hinder Christie’s but Sotheby’s sparkles with Richter Riley, Barceló and Flanaghan

The Surrealism sections of the February sales in London were the only to produce sparkling results

Prices for Gursky, Struth, Ruff and Demand have rocketed in 10 years

The statue of Pharaoh Sesostris III has already been deemed authentic in the Pinault's two lost lawsuits

Most of the unsold lots were high-value items unlikely to attract new buyers

Once enough money to pay off the Giacometti Association's bills had been made, the sale was brought to the close, to the chagrin of foreign buyers