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Kandinsky makes £37m auction record at a procedural but solid Sotheby's London evening sale
Strong Asian bidding helped secure the success of the 58-lot two-part auction, which brought the house £147m
Rubens portrait from Met trustee’s collection could fetch $30m at Sotheby’s
“Portrait of a Man as the God Mars” once broke the Old Master’s auction record and was on display at the Metropolitan Museum for several years
A 200-year-old family collection of largely unseen Théodore Géricault paintings heads to auction
The sale at Sotheby’s Paris will include seven works by the artist with Portrait of Zoé Elmore carrying the highest estimate of €1.2m
Restituted Kandinsky painting lost in the Holocaust could sell for $45m
The painting, which was the subject of a decade-long provenance dispute, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s London in March
Powerful Old Master painting of Saint Bartholomew bought by London’s National Gallery for almost $4m
Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York
The donating game: How artists like Tracey Emin are driving philanthropy in the art world
The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?
Princess Diana gown, Lebron James jersey and ornate Bronze Age disc lead Sotheby’s latest cross-category auction experiment
The auction house’s first “The One” sale in New York included a mix of ancient artefacts and modern memorabilia organised into thematic sections
Restituted, record-setting Bronzino and gruesome Rubens lead Sotheby’s Old Masters sales in New York
The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots
Guarantees, withdrawals and billionaires bidding at their own auction houses: Flagging market gets by with a little help from its friends
Don't be fooled by the higher-than-ever sale figures—the market is softening
Kim Kardashian buys amethyst cross worn by Princess Diana at Sotheby’s
A representative for the reality television star and entrepreneur emerged victorious from a five-minute bidding war
Another monumental Munch painting once hidden from Nazis in a barn heads to the block
Heirs of Jewish art critic forced to sell the work estimated at $15m now set to benefit from Sotheby’s auction
New business, familiar face: former Sotheby’s chairperson Patti Wong launches advisory focused on top Asian collectors
Patti Wong & Associates will partner with London-based advisory The Fine Art Group to expand its global reach
From a gruesome Old Master to a potential million-dollar superhero: our pick of the highlights from January's sales
Plus, a pair of Thornton Dial assemblages, a rare Chinese bowl and a work made out of flip-flops and suede
The art market in 2022: art fair shake ups, single owner auctions and an NFT winter
Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?
Sotheby’s on track to make $8bn in 2022, the company’s highest total ever—but don’t be fooled by the top line
Fine art accounts for $5.7bn of that total, a 9.5% drop from 2021
Brexit woes contribute to slim Old Master sales in London
Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December
Old Masters need reinventing to avoid being frozen out
Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention
Marlene Dumas donates Mouth painting about women's rights for Amnesty International sale
Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris
Hear them roar: Peter Doig and Ai Weiwei make tiger rugs for charity initiative
The profits of the sale will go towards tiger conservation efforts in countries including Bangladesh and China
Records for rising stars and women artists power an otherwise subdued Sotheby’s New York contemporary art evening sale
The firm’s contemporary and “The Now” evening auctions totalled a combined $314.9m and notched new best prices for Barbara Kruger, Betye Saar and Elizabeth Peyton
Record-breaking Mondrian leads an evening of mixed results at Sotheby’s marquee Modern art sales in New York
The auction house held a competitive, white-glove single-owner sale and a lacklustre modern art sale on Monday night
Cache of leaked documents reveal Sotheby's owner Patrick Drahi’s $750m art collection—and his tax affairs
Billionaire businessman has amassed a treasure trove of more than 200 prime works of art, many bought through his auction house
Andy Warhol’s $80m suburban car crash painting could become one of his most expensive works sold at auction
White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) (1963) will be offered at Sotheby's in New York next month
Divorcing collectors to sell Old Masters trove at Sotheby’s in New York, led by $25m early Rubens
Ten works from the collection of Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson will be on offer during the Master’s Week sales in January
A painting marketed as 'by Titian'—but also attributed to his workshop—will be offered at Sotheby's in December for £8m
The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998
All hot air on climate action? Auction houses pledge to cut CO2 while organising global tours for star lots
In our new series Reality Bites, we assess whether the art market's key players are addressing the urgent issues affecting the wider world
The $100m collection of former Whitney Museum president David Solinger will be sold at Sotheby’s
Star lots include one of Picasso’s earliest paintings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and a dynamic De Kooning
Sotheby's to sell $70m of art stored at MoMA to benefit New York museum's digital initiatives
Francis Bacon triptych and Renoir still life among works from the collection of CBS founder William S. Paley that have been "under the museum's stewardship" since his death
Sotheby’s launches primary market channel selling works directly from artists’ studios
For each work sold, 15% will go to a charity or institution of the artist’s choice—but will the new sales format ruffle dealers’ feathers?