Auctions
Are charity art auctions, not donations, the new model for offsetting taxes?
Paul Allen’s estate has pledged proceeds of its $1.6bn Christie’s sale to unnamed philanthropic causes, while FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried vaguely promised to give away his fortune
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
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
Paris auction house Artcurial reports best year of sales—despite a downturn in trade of 20th- and 21st-century art
A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work
Was a Vienna auction's €6,000 'copy' of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling actually by Michelangelo?
My heart-stopping research saga to find out if Dorotheum’s part-painted cartoon by a "follower" was in fact a sleeper
‘An absolute art market record’: Christie’s posts $8.4bn in sales for 2022
Single-owner collections and millennials boost auction house’s revenues despite “challenging macro environment”
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
Black American women artists represent just 0.1% of auction sales, report shows
New data shows there has been little real progress in fighting sexism and racism between 2008 and 2022
First wooden sculpture by Die Brücke founder Erich Heckel offered at auction goes on sale in Munich for €600,000
It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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
Poland says Kandinsky painting sold at Berlin auction house was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw
Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach
Damaged Salvator Mundi copy by unknown artist sells for €1m at Christie's
Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio
From a Dutch Golden Age still-life to a Nobel Prize medal: our pick of the highlights from December's sales
Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna
Queen Elizabeth II portrait makes $853,000 in Toronto—a record for a Warhol print at auction
Healthy bidding at Canadian auction house Heffel also achieved strong results for painter Lawren Harris
Who let the lots out? A pack of 19th-century dog paintings is coming to auction
Collector Frances Scaife is selling 14 dog portraits by English and American artists at Hindman auction house in Chicago
Hong Kong's autumn auctions for modern and contemporary art saw a 38% drop from last year—but why?
Closed borders have impacted the selection of offerings this season, specialists say
Is Qatar's Fifa World Cup a lesson in artwashing?
Plus, how long left of the good times in the New York auction world? And abstract Black figuration
Five years since the $450m Salvator Mundi sale: a first-hand account of the nonsensical auction
At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display
The five year warranty on the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo is about to run out—could the buyer have asked for their money back?
Warranties of authenticity offered to buyers can be hard to enforce when auctioneers can fall back on the “generally accepted opinion of scholars and experts”
Revealed: When lightning struck, rescuers of Van Gogh's works were rewarded with a drawing
Coming up at Christie’s and estimated at around $4m, the sketch given to neighbours who doused the fire and saved the Van Gogh family home and collection in 1941
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
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
UK art centre saves Lowry's football painting from falling into private hands—and makes artist's auction record
The £7.8m work will remain on public display in Salford thanks to a charitable donation
London preview opens Windows onto Microsoft mogul’s soon-to-be auctioned art collection
Works from tech giant co-founder Paul Allen's estate go on sale at Christie's New York next month
Van Gogh landscape coming up for auction should fetch a record price of over $100m
The orchard blossom scene, from the collection of Microsoft founder Paul Allen, is being sold by Christie’s
Tracey Emin sells new work for £2.3m at Christie's and will use the money to fund her new art school
Collectors at Frieze London are also investing with White Cube finding buyers for seven works on paper and Xavier Hufkens selarling a large-scale painting in the region of £950,000
Weak pound boosts British artists’ sales during Frieze Week in London
A confluence of factors has given the UK art market a lift—but will it last?
Surging demand for African art brings new galleries to 1-54 fair in London
As auction sales soar, 14 galleries are showing at this year’s contemporary African art fair for the first time
Agnes Gund Foundation selling $5.5m Lichtenstein work to support reproductive rights movement
Proceeds of the sale at Christie's will benefit the reproductive justice organisations