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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
Optimism abounds heading into November auctions in New York
Discretionary sellers gain confidence in the market and Christie's leads its contemporary sale with Da Vinci—but recent overreaches sound a cautionary note
Japanese billionaire sends $110m Basquiat on 'world tour'
Yusaku Maezawa broke the news on Instagram, saying he hopes the work will be “loved by people all over the world”
Sotheby’s expect First World War painting by Nevinson to make £1m
Last sold 50 years ago, A Dawn depicts French troops marching to trenches through Flanders in 1914
SJ Phillips: downsizing but “not closing down”
Long established London jewellers will hold sale at Sotheby’s following move to smaller premises, but director insists it is “business as usual”
Record breaking Chinese brush washer points to demand for Song ceramics in Hong Kong
At HK$294.3m, the Ru ware piece set a record for a Chinese ceramic at Sotheby's during Hong Kong's busy autumn auction and fair series
Sotheby’s to hold first sale in Dubai
Christie’s moves October auction to London as rival plans first sale in the UAE
US institutions dominate Sotheby’s inaugural museum prize
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Nasher Museum share the first $250,000 award for shows on Middle Eastern and South Asian art, and Latin American Pop
Adventurous art collection of Jerome and Ellen Stern comes to Sotheby’s
More than 250 works owned by the couple will feature across ten auctions
Howard Hodgkin’s wildly eclectic collection goes on the block at Sotheby’s
Turkish tiles, Persian carpets and Modern British works graced the late artist’s Bloomsbury home
Anatole Shagalov embroiled in legal cases that reveal problems of buying art with loans
Buyers using works as collateral and allegedly defaulting on payment becoming increasingly common in "frothy market"
Art Deco, classic cars and tribal art drive sales in France but growth remains sluggish
Single-owner consignments and a €13.5m portrait by Modigliani help Sotheby’s emerge ahead of its rivals in a stagnating market
Auction results: Twombly triumphs as one Warhol wobbles
While Sotheby's struggled with Little Electric Chair, Christie's had no such problems
Records tumble for post-war Italian artists
The colour white proves particularly popular as Sotheby’s expert heralds “a new dawn for Italian art”
“Impeccable” Modigliani star of Paris auction
Held in the Alexandre family for generations, the painting is considered a time capsule
Leonardo lost to view: Rediscovered masterpiece remains in private hands
Salvator Mundi has been sold to a collector, months after Dallas Museum of Art made a similar offer
Sotheby's Cambodian smuggling saga quietly resolved out of court
The auction house returns statue and is cleared of wrongdoing as federal government drops allegations
Post-war and contemporary results
A big week for Phillips, Sotheby's, and Christie's
French trade warns of VAT ‘disaster’
Warnings that the French government's proposed VAT hikes will undermine the country's standing in the global art market