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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
Collector Steven Brooks says Sotheby’s sold him Nazi art
Uncertainty over whether the work—once owned by Goering—was looted has apparently left it unsaleable
Old Master sketches still draw new buyers
The experimental character and technical virtuosity of Old Master sketches are inspiring interest from new sectors of the art world.
Cambodian sculpture case will go to trial
Sotheby's sale halted as Cambodia demands its return
Peter Olsen to sell version of The Scream to open private Munch museum in Oslo
The collector hopes the sale will pay for the design of his proposed museum, which will be located not far from a building in which Munch used to work
Old Masters auctions: Raphael stars in mixed London sales
Raphael’s Head of a Young Apostle was the centre of attention during London’s Old Master week last month
Anthony Haden-Guest’s New York: Gallerist Eli Klein, Restoin Roitfeld's "Hue and Cry" at Sotheby's, Catherine Johnson's Warhol biography, and Steinway's artist-in-residence
“I think it’s interesting the way Warhol polarises people,” says Catherine Johnson. “Some people love to hate Andy”
Oslo collector Martin Schøyen sells 60 manuscripts
He blames Norway’s tax system for his decision
Rich inland cities become players on Chinese art scene
Sotheby’s goes west as art centres spring up beyond the traditional coastal base
Ullens makes U-turn to refocus on Asian space
After seeming to grow cool on his Chinese venture, the collector is now staging numerous shows and branching into Indian art
Sale reports: Impressionist and Modern, Surrealism, and Contemporary
Peaks for best modern and contemporary artists High prices for works by Miró, Bacon, Moore and Richter are reminiscent of the boom
Fears grow that Greek art market is riddled with forgeries
A legal case brought against Sotheby’s by a major Greek collector could be the tip of the iceberg