Plus, a pair of Thornton Dial assemblages, a rare Chinese bowl and a work made out of flip-flops and suede

Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?

Fine art accounts for $5.7bn of that total, a 9.5% drop from 2021

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

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

Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris

The profits of the sale will go towards tiger conservation efforts in countries including Bangladesh and China

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

The auction house held a competitive, white-glove single-owner sale and a lacklustre modern art sale on Monday night

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