Sales lag while demand for folk art is on the rise as Millennials move away from a ‘Home Alone’ aesthetic

Major works by 14 women artists are expected to dominate Sotheby’s Masters Week offerings and bring more 'diverse' collectors

Dealers’ association seeks meeting with culture minister over fears report will open the door to numerous restitution claims for a range of artefacts

Supreme court victory in France allows the auction house to shift the responsibility for resale royalties from sellers to buyers of works of art

Loic Gouzer to leave Christie’s as the auction house restructures in the wake of Francis Outred's departure, while Phillips upgrades its New York headquarters

David Hockney was latest white male artist to set a record this year

Christie's and Sotheby's sell near identical Van Dyck portraits of Princess Mary, and new records are set for Frans Hals and a jolly Judith Leyster

The rapid growth in the number of loan providers, from private banks to specialist lenders, could transform the art market’s relationship with the financial markets

Former deal-maker, who joined the auction house in 2016 with the acquisition of Art Agency, Partners, will leave on 31 December

Skeleton of young man was evicted to make way for the body of the first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos's pet dog

Gaurav Bhatia is co-operating in "formal enquiry" ahead of auction house’s inaugural sale in Mumbai today

Hockney made the headlines, but other artists made waves—or flopped—at November’s auctions

Nicholas Serota and Norman Rosenthal say that selling off the works is a “grave mistake”

Heinrich von Spreti will serve as interim managing director until a replacement is found

A monumental painting of the American West by Emanuel Leutze breaks records while works by Rockwell and Hopper flop

We talk to David Hockney about Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which broke an auction record this week, selling at Christie's New York for $90.3m with fees. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Broadening the sales strategy for Latin American art has been a positive move for some artists' markets

With only two lots unsold, the auction house nets $362.6m in evening of avid bidding

Monet carries Christie's evening sale while a Magritte shines at Sotheby's, marking an auction record for the Surrealist painter

Lesser known lots still hold plenty of hammer potential

The formal investigation follows his detainment earlier this week related to an ongoing spat with the art dealer Yves Bouvier

The work was one of 18 to have been placed under a court order following a financial dispute unrelated to the auction

Girl With Balloon was meant to shred completely

Sotheby's directors speak out for the first time since Girl With Balloon was half shredded at auction

Modernist works from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum will be offered in New York in November

We go behind the scenes of one of the most publicised stunts in auction history with our correspondent Anny Shaw who was there that evening. Then we get a tour of Tate Modern's Anni Albers retrospective with its curator Briony Fer, speak to the artist's biographer Charles Darwent and the head of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Nicholas Fox Weber. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Girl With Balloon canvas ‘self-destructed’ live at Sotheby’s last week in one of the most publicised stunts in auction history

Just when we thought Frieze week was all over, twists and turns provide high drama at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale on Friday night

Girl with a Balloon (2006) had just hammered at £860,000

The curvaceous M indicates a work that is "subject to right of first refusal"