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

The London-headquartered The Fine Art Group and New York-based Schwartzman& are collaborating—but this is not a merger, they stress

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

The move comes as the art market steps up its due diligence

The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold

The sales, popular with London-based Russians and regional collectors in Russia alike, had been scheduled for June

The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"

Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m

Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m

Ex-staff are now considering legal action, claiming they were not kept informed of changes to the scheme

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco

The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate

The auction house will help the Parisian institution research the history of items purchased between 1933 and 1945, which "may lead to restitutions"

The auction house, which had been publicly traded for decades before being bought by Patrick Drahi for $3.7bn in 2019, could return to public trading later this year

Baron Pennisi commissioned the neo-Gothic villa, which includes a private chapel with frescoes by Giuseppe Sciuti, at the end of the 19th century

The monumental L’empire des lumières, painted in 1961 for the artist's muse Anne-Marie Gillion Crowet, has never been sold before but will now be auctioned at Sotheby's in London in March

Infrared images of the painting, which is due to be sold at Sotheby's in New York later this month, show that an earlier composition lies underneath

Lawyers for the auction house are trying to dismiss the complaint, which they call 'devoid of factual allegations,' but they could be facing a classic Catch-22.

Expert from a French collecting dynasty saw first-hand the fast-changing art world of the 1960s and helped British Rail create its renowned collection