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Object lessons: London Old Master season special
Our pick of highlights from London Art Week exhibitions and auctions, including an export-barred Renaissance cabinet and an uncharacteristically cheery Ribera
Flipping the Bacon: Sotheby's £69m post-war and contemporary sale lacks fizz
A £16m Francis Bacon self-portrait and a record for a little-known German artist enliven an otherwise dry sale in London as totals fall 40% on last year
Sotheby's denied dismissal of Rybolovlev's $380m lawsuit by New York judge
Papers filed in a Manhattan court this week order a pre-trial conference and the release of confidential documents
Mini Impressionist and Modern sale at Sotheby's makes £99m thanks to auction debutantes
Monet's waterlilies and Modigliani's portrait of an unknown boy lead the 25-lot sale, and new record made for Austrian artist Alfred Kubin's haunting drawing
French decorative arts apparently recession-proof
The international market absorbs the Polo, Patiño and Johnson collections in one year. Tous les Louis do well but Louis XVI best of all
Sotheby's newfound privacy gives it greater freedom, but at what cost to the rest of us?
Former public company status left the auction house at a disadvantage to rival Christie's, but its quarterly finance reports provided rare insight in a secretive market
Sotheby's goes private as it is sold for $3.7bn
French-Israeli media billionaire Patrick Drahi's company BidFair USA buys firm from shareholders
Sotheby’s to hold the first major Aboriginal art sale in the US in November
The auction house cites increasing interest in Aboriginal art among US collectors and institutions
Edward Hopper's over-priced ode to Shakespeare goes unsold as market for American art proves capricious
Christie's American art sales this week realise a new record for Hartley but Sotheby's struggles to get the pricing right on Hopper's Shakespeare scene
San Francisco museum's Rothko sells for $50m as Sotheby’s closes bumper week of New York auctions
Dana Schutz’s record broken twice in one night at Phillips then Sotheby's, while the bidder behind the $91m Koons Rabbit buys Lee Krasner painting for $10m
Monet's glowing haystacks set alight Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art sale with a new £97m record
Market is alive and kicking at the top for prime Impressionist works, though Bouguereau's uncomfortably placed, 19th-century Bacchanalian scene failed to sell
Virtually unseen Van Gogh painting comes up for sale in New York next week
Christie’s values the Japanese-influenced picture of the asylum garden at $25m
Sotheby’s reports loss of $7.1m in first quarter of 2019
Lack of supply dogs London and Hong Kong and guarantees are down over 50% as former chief operating officer Adam Chinn apparently joins the Mugrabi dealing family
Frans Hals court case may be settled but it raises questions over science, scholars and contracts
After settling with dealer Mark Weiss, Sotheby’s is still trying to recoup losses after refunding US buyer of the painting
On the Bard’s birthday, Sotheby’s announces it will offer Edward Hopper’s ode to Shakespeare
Estimated to fetch $7-$10m, the New York cityscape, depicts the iconic Central Park statue of the playwright
Court case over 'modern forgery' Frans Hals concludes but judgment reserved until summer
Sotheby's James Martin stands by his assertion that the painting is a fake following hours of interrogation challenging the independence of his scientific analysis
Bonn library recovers 600 books missing since the Second World War
Sotheby's assisted the return of the books, including 11 medieval manuscripts, which were found in Belgium
Sotheby’s settles claim against London dealer Mark Weiss in Frans Hals case
Settlement came day before trial was due to start, but its suit against financier will continue
Egon Schiele: a buyer's guide
While well known in the West, the work of this major figure of Austrian Expressionism is less recognised in Asia—until now
Object lessons: from a highlight of New York's Asia Week to a Surrealist watercolour
Our picks from upcoming fairs and auctions in the next fortnight
Van Ham to auction 4,000 contemporary works from SØR Rusche collection
Dutch Old Masters in the retailer’s corporate collection are to be sold at Sotheby’s
Sotheby's puts female artists first in contemporary sale, but men still end up on top
Jenny Saville's Juncture sells for £5.4m and records set for Rebecca Warren and Nigerian artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, but Jean-Michel Basquiat still leads prices
Object lessons: from Lucian Freud's tender portrait of a friend to El Lissitzky's pivotal self-portrait
Our highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions
Sotheby's sales up 16% in 2018 thanks to $1bn private sales boost
Auction house reports $6.4bn in total sales last year, while chief executive Tad Smith says guarantees are not "at a particularly high level"
Keep the Monet flowing: trim but efficient Sotheby's sale starts London's pre-Brexit Impressionist and Modern art week
£63m auction total is half that of last year, but bidding from Asia and Russia helps make new record for Oskar Schlemmer and a Venetian view by Monet
SFMoMA to sell a Rothko estimated at $35m to $50m
Proceeds would go toward acquisitions that “address art historical gaps’’
Drawings prove the main draw for collectors at New York’s Master Week sales
Sotheby’s sees strong sales for works on paper by Rubens and Carracci while interest in masterworks by female artists slowly rises
Guggenheim deaccessions work by Zao Wou-Ki as the artist’s market swells
Following a $65m sale of the Chinese modernist’s work in October, Sotheby’s will offer an untitled work this spring to benefit the museum’s acquisition fund
Object lessons: works by female artists, from 17th-century Hyperrealism to an Art Nouveau watercolour
Our pick of the highlights from January's auctions and fairs