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New York Attorney General's investigation into Sotheby's alleged tax fraud widens
Letitia James's office is seeking information on more than 50 collectors related to a 2020 lawsuit against the auction house
From a Niki de Saint Phalle fountain to a splashy David Hockney print: our pick of the highlights from September's sales
Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels
Joseph Hotung's vast collection heads to auction, including Degas's wedding gift portrait to Eugène Manet and Berthe Morisot
Sotheby's will offer Chinese antiquities and Impressionist portraits amassed by the scion of one of Hong Kong's richest families
Paula Rego’s influence will live on—here's why her market will too
Long undervalued, especially at auction, her works are now appealing to a wider base of collectors and prices are set to rise accordingly
Digging deep for Old Master treasures: mixed results at London sales as dearth of 'good material' continues
Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals
Sotheby's sales in London fall short—though Francis Bacon brings in £43.4m
Bidding was strong for red-chip artists, but the air is much thinner at the top of the market
Francis Bacon’s portrait of rival and friend Lucian Freud could make more than £35m in London sale
Work from a private European collection fuels the market for the blue-chip artist
In the Hamptons, a collaborative exhibition aims to move glass art into the market's mainstream by pairing it with blue-chip art
“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
UK to investigate Sotheby's owner Patrick Drahi's stake in telecommunications giant BT amid national security concerns
The French-Israeli billionaire is the majority shareholder in BT through his firm Altice
Sale of William Barak works breaches 'Aboriginal cultural lore', says Australian Wurundjeri elder
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
Frieze Week in New York: mammoth auction sales and a shifting art fair landscape
Plus, the Albers Foundation plans a Senegal space, and a golden Indian manuscript at the British Library
As market for young artists grows, Sotheby’s turbocharged The Now sale in New York threatens to eclipse its contemporary evening auction
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
Sotheby’s Modern art evening sale in New York brings in over $408m, the third-highest total for a sale at the auction house
Despite a hefty number of lots, the sale flew by and was peppered with memorable moments, auction records and Oliver Barker’s tireless showmanship
Works by women will set the pace in Sotheby’s ultra-contemporary New York evening sale
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
Macklowe trove becomes most valuable collection ever sold at auction after second Sotheby's sale tallies $246.1m
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
‘Oh f***! Anybody can do art’: pop star Robbie Williams shows new paintings at Sotheby’s
Auction house is banking on musician’s Black and White Paintings co-created with Ed Godrich
Paintings rescued from Ukraine—by being rolled up in drainpipes—offered in Sotheby's humanitarian fundraising sale
Artists and dealers have donated works to the online auction raising money for the International Rescue Committee in Ukraine
'In a guaranteed market, buyers and sellers crave the unpredictable'
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
With a $20m estimate, this Louise Bourgeois spider is the most expensive sculpture offered at auction in Asia
Spider IV will be offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong contemporary evening sale later this month
Picasso’s muse as sea creature—will it break $100m at Sotheby's New York sale?
Femme nue couchée was shown in Tate blockbuster exhibition in 2018
Philip Guston painting could make $30m, potentially breaking the artist's auction record
The sale at Sotheby's New York in May will coincide with the delayed opening of the controversial exhibition Philip Guston Now in Boston
Strange bedfellows: advisor Allan Schwartzman and art investment specialist Philip Hoffman team up
The London-headquartered The Fine Art Group and New York-based Schwartzman& are collaborating—but this is not a merger, they stress
'I’ve done my duty on spreadsheets': senior staff reshuffles at Christie's and Sotheby's
A number of new appointments are announced today at the auction houses, with a different EMEA president for Christie's and new managing director in the Middle East at Sotheby's
Sotheby’s and Ketterer Kunst among auction houses to ban some Russian buyers
The move comes as the art market steps up its due diligence
The original NFT? Sotheby's to offer a receipt for an invisible work by Yves Klein for €500,000
The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold
Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams call off Russian art auctions in response to war in Ukraine
The sales, popular with London-based Russians and regional collectors in Russia alike, had been scheduled for June
Major Surrealist paintings make auction debut at Sotheby's Paris, including Picabia's very modern muse
The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"
Magritte more than doubles auction record at an otherwise tame Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening sale in London
Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m
From the archive | Countercultural Chatsworth: Burning Man comes to Derbyshire, courtesy of Sotheby's
Van Gogh’s depiction of two lovers—sliced out of a landscape painting—comes up for sale
Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m