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Baltimore museum sells blue-chip art to buy works by minority artists
Five works made around $18m (with fees) at auctions at Sotheby’s New York on 19 May, and two were bought for undisclosed sums in private sales
Kerry James Marshall sets $21m record for a living African American artist at Sotheby's sale
Rapper P. Diddy identified as buyer of the Chicago-based painter's Past Times
Modigliani nude leads Sotheby's $318.3m Impressionist and Modern auction
Sex sells—but only if it is guaranteed
Judge halts suit filed by collector seeking to block sale of Basquiat at Sotheby's
The painting, estimated to bring $30m, is a key lot in the auction house's upcoming evening sale in New York; plaintiff vows to appeal
Sotheby’s sale of Howard Hodgkin’s works on paper supports new print catalogue raisonné
Every work by the late UK artist up for auction—from stage designs to book covers—is an artist’s proof
Private sales jump 70% at Sotheby's
First-quarter earnings show aggregate auction sales of $667m, affirming market's strength
Sotheby's to offer Modigliani nude with $150m estimate, one month after it was shown at Tate
The work is the largest in the artist's most sought-after series of pathbreaking Modern nudes
Sotheby's backs Indian art market by launching sales in Mumbai
Announcement comes days after auction house reinstates buyer's premium in online sales
Sotheby's to offer Jackson Pollock drip painting in May sale series
The 1949 work, unveiled in Hong Kong this week, could surpass the artist's auction record
Then & Now: boom, bust and rebirth of Damien Hirst
How The Art Newspaper has covered the artist's bullish decadence
Sotheby’s unveils Old Master painting in the Middle East for first time
Will Jeff Koons’s handbags for Louis Vuitton help find a buyer for the Rubens portrait?
The jewel in Tefaf's crown
We spoke to a few specialists about the jewellery trade ahead of the fair
Peter Wilson: The man who invented modern auctioneering
Buccaneering, brilliant, art-loving—he created the power of Sotheby’s (and Christie’s learned by imitation)
Big data meets Old Masters at Tefaf Maastricht
As artificial intelligence becomes more common, the market is embracing tools that might help to bring digital natives into the Golden Age
Surfacing on the market: Il Guercino's dog, John McEnroe's Mark Bradford and Jeffrey Archer's cartoons
Our pick of this month’s most interesting auction
Sotheby's sales up 12% to $5.5bn in 2017
Auction house releases its latest earnings, showing growth driven by Asian clients, private sales, and online auctions
Mystery Picasso collector on spending spree buys £49.8m portrait of Marie-Thérèse
Buyer bidding through advisors Gurr Johns, combined with strong Asian interest, buoys London Impressionist and Modern art sales at Christie's and Sotheby's
New discoveries add value to Old Master drawings
From Pontormo to Klimt, dealers invest in research in the hope of boosting prices
Stop reading, start looking: today’s art history students are not getting a grounding in connoisseurship skills
When I put an image of a well-known Titian on the screen, only one of 40 could identify the artist
Sotheby's snags a fresh £36.5m Picasso for February auction in London
Price sets a high bar for the auction house's first Impressionist & Modern offering of 2018
Sotheby's brings outsider art to Bond Street
Exhibition with charity Outside In shows work by "hidden" artists working outside mainstream society
New York court grants permission for Rybolovlev to use confidential documents in UK and Switzerland
Order could pave way for Russian billionaire to launch High Court case against Swiss dealer Yves Bouvier and Sotheby’s
Podcast episode 12: Old Masters after the Leonardo and Art Basel in Miami Beach
We talk Titian, Constable, Veneziano, Wright of Derby, Van Dyck and, yes, Leonardo, with art historian Bendor Grosvenor. And we get Judd Tully’s views on Miami’s annual art fair.
Three highlights from London's Old Master auctions
Rothschild's El Greco, a candlelit scene by Joseph Wright of Derby and an out of season crucifixion scene lead pre-Christmas sales
Going, going, gone? Men’s tight grip on the gavel starts to loosen
A growing number of women are appearing on the rostrum and taking senior auctioneer roles
Phillips and Sotheby's deliver healthy totals for contemporary art
Capping an epic week of auctions, solid results featuring records for female artists and a Ferrari bode well for market's future—so long as it doesn't overheat
Solid $269.7m at Sotheby's maintains momentum in Impressionist and Modern market
New York sale results boosted by strong Asian and Russian buying, and shored up by guarantees
Quality as well as quantity in short supply at Sotheby's sale of American art
Where a museum's Rockwells had sparked interest in a flagging category, the removal of key lots from the sale dampened spirits