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New York auction season report: Strong bidding, powerful prices
Sotheby’s cuts losses, sells London Institute
Strong demand for Old Master paintings from private collectors boosted prices in summer sales
Rediscovered Rembrandt made £6.9 million
Both Christie’s and Sotheby’s walk away from their contemporary sales claiming to have bettered their rival
Sotheby’s scored a superior strike rate, but marginally lower proceeds
Contemporary sales report: Storm warnings prove inaccurate
Problematic Warhols hinder Christie’s but Sotheby’s sparkles with Richter Riley, Barceló and Flanaghan
Sotheby’s to close online art sales site in May
Just a year after Sotheby’s announced a strategic alliance with the giant auction site eBay, it has thrown in the towel and will stop online sales of art and antiques, from May
The supply of surrealism on the art market means that collectors can still tap into this movement
The Surrealism sections of the February sales in London were the only to produce sparkling results
Decorative arts today: Where to find that coffee-filter ballgown
Contemporary applied crafts on show at Sotheby’s
Partial success for Japanese woodblock prints at the Bérès sale
Hokusai is now hotter than Sharaku
Works of St Ives School artists continuously increasing in popularity
Leading the pack are Nicholson and Hepworth, while prices for Lanyon, Hilton and Heron are rising dramatically
The latest auction results show a boom in figurative art (of the right kind)
Collectors of Modern art are paying fancy prices for Richter, Barceló and Doig
Demand for early oak furniture has fluctuated throughout the 20th century, and even though prices have risen sharply in recent years, pieces are still "very underpriced"
Minimalist interiors are being decorated with showy accent pieces
Hervé Poulain and Reneé Le Fur make surprise announcement that the pair are joining Artcurial-Briest group
The Sotheby’s-friendly team is joining Artcurial
Post-War and Contemporary sale report: where have all the Warhols gone?
Record prices for Andreas Gursky, Peter Doig, Luciano Fabro and Douglas Gordon
How sothebys.com is cutting costs
The loss-making site is shutting down its UK offices
Sotheby’s and Christie’s kick off the long awaited now open French auction market
Inaugural sales do well
1991-2001: a mini-guide to a decade in the art market
From a game-changing Japanese scandal to price-fixing at the world's leading auction houses, we look at the most significant developments over the past ten years
Following the postponement of Asia Week due to the World Trade Centre attack, sales flopped amid scant enthusiasm
Gandharan sculpture did well in an otherwise difficult week at the postponed Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions
Sotheby’s ends auctions in Chicago
Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips
Sotheby's places a bid for the middle market with opening of new Olympia saleroom
The auction house hopes to cash in on the £500 to £10,000 range
Online art ventures continue to face business difficulties
Eppraisals disappears, N@rt stops art sales, and nextMonet merges
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
With Sotheby's and Christie's allowed to hold sales in Paris for the first time, can Paris regain its lost place in the art market?
A new French revolution?
Ming and Qing Chinese ceramics: A flood of fakes from Jingdezhen
Forgers reportedly work to order from Sotheby’s catalogues
“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
Sotheby’s executive vice-president talks about their online venture and the importance of auctions on the web
A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming
Disappointing sales for sothebys.com
Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000
Is another bubble about to burst in the fine art market?
In 2000 we noted that single-owner collections sent prices spiralling upwards which was good news for the salerooms, but disastrous for museums with dwindling budgets