Billionaire businessman has amassed a treasure trove of more than 200 prime works of art, many bought through his auction house

White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) (1963) will be offered at Sotheby's in New York next month

Ten works from the collection of Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson will be on offer during the Master’s Week sales in January

The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998

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Star lots include one of Picasso’s earliest paintings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and a dynamic De Kooning

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

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?

Letitia James's office is seeking information on more than 50 collectors related to a 2020 lawsuit against the auction house

Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels

Sotheby's will offer Chinese antiquities and Impressionist portraits amassed by the scion of one of Hong Kong's richest families

Long undervalued, especially at auction, her works are now appealing to a wider base of collectors and prices are set to rise accordingly

Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals

Bidding was strong for red-chip artists, but the air is much thinner at the top of the market

Work from a private European collection fuels the market for the blue-chip artist

“Having that kind of cross-category [collaboration] between art and design helps to pull different types of buyers into the market,” says Eliza Ravelle-Chapuis, head of Sotheby’s East Hampton gallery

The French-Israeli billionaire is the majority shareholder in BT through his firm Altice

The Wurundjeri Corporation hopes to crowdfund $175,000 to secure the return of the pieces, which are being sold by the De Pury family at Sotheby’s New York

Plus, the Albers Foundation plans a Senegal space, and a golden Indian manuscript at the British Library

While both back-to-back sales did well, works by artists under 40 were snapped up at a rate not matched by their elders, making seven artist records

Despite a hefty number of lots, the sale flew by and was peppered with memorable moments, auction records and Oliver Barker’s tireless showmanship

Nearly 60% of the works in the auction house’s ‘The Now’ sale are by women artists, though they are still in the minority by value

Combined with the $676.1m take from the first sale in November 2021, the 65 works from the Macklowe collection brought in a staggering $922.2m

Auction house is banking on musician’s Black and White Paintings co-created with Ed Godrich

Artists and dealers have donated works to the online auction raising money for the International Rescue Committee in Ukraine

The recent London auctions suggested a market of extremes, with some seeking the safety of guarantees and others speculating on works by young stars on the rise

Spider IV will be offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong contemporary evening sale later this month

Femme nue couchée was shown in Tate blockbuster exhibition in 2018

The sale at Sotheby's New York in May will coincide with the delayed opening of the controversial exhibition Philip Guston Now in Boston