The auction totalled £62.5m—down 25% year-on-year—but Sotheby's says it is committed to holding June sales in London despite a beleaguered post-Brexit market

Bristol city council hopes to raise the money in just seven days

The pair of works are now worth £1m, with one coming up for sale at Sotheby’s on 25 June

New renderings show the subtle interventions the auction house is making to its new Manhattan locale ahead of the marquee autumn auctions in November

The painting goes to the block ahead of Oasis's much anticipated reunion tour later this summer—perfect timing, some might say

The London sales of mostly Surrealist art have the highest estimate ever placed on a single collection by the auction house in Europe

The work was previously attributed to a follower of the 18th-century artist Julius Caesar Ibbetson, but experts agree it was infact painted by a teenaged Turner

Could the 100-item lot be enough to distract the controversial billionaire from his current spat with President Donald Trump?

David with the Head of Goliath, fully attributed to the artist in 2020, will headline Sotheby's Old Master evening auction on 2 July

Marcel Breuer's Brutalist gem on the Upper East Side is to undergo a partial renovation as part of its auction house revamp

The sale achieved a 62% sell through rate and made new auction records for Luis Meléndez and Frans Post

The auction house holds its first dedicated sale of Indigenous Australian art since the passing of Klingender, who was instrumental in developing the market for this category

Works from the estate of Barbara Gladstone and the home of Daniella Luxembourg—plus a litter of Lichtensteins—energised 15 May marquee auction of post-war and contemporary art

The document was consigned to the auction house in 1946 then, later the same year, purchased by Harvard Law School for just $27.50

The prize lot, a bust depicting the artist’s brother Diego, failed to attract bidders during the $186.4m sale

As China’s market drops, auction houses and dealers have been following the money to Saudi Arabia

The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years

The sale at Sotheby's New York next month includes works by Lucio Fontana, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alexander Calder and Claes Oldenburg

Maurizio Cattelan was among those papped—all for charity

Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery

The journalist and collector Niomar Moniz Sodré Bittencourt, who established the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, was exiled after speaking out against Brazil's military dictatorship

What’s behind the new, more measurement approaches to programming at museums, art fairs and more? Plus, a chat about current tensions around culture in the Netherlands and a close look at one of the most famous depictions of a wintery landscape

Due to be sold at Sotheby's New York in May, the group of works includes pieces by Guardi and Canaletto and is billed as the "most valuable single-owner collection of Old Master paintings ever to appear at auction"

Last night's sale at Sotheby's, which totalled £62.5m, also included a £4.3m Banksy sold by blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus

Around 60 works estimated for a total of $80m to $120m from the collection of Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders will be offered in New York this May

The “Origins” sale totalled $17.28m and achieved a sell-through rate of 67% by lot

At this year’s winter auctions, the two big houses saw ‘a mixed bag and mixed results’

Blue-chip fine art, jewellery and sports memorabilia all on offer in the Diriyah sale—the first to be held by an international auction house in the country

Overall sales fell by 23% compared to 2023, though the private division grew

The auction house's swift reversal of its recently overhauled premium structure is an admission of how wrongly it read the runes, writes Melanie Gerlis