Tacca's Hercules is star of the bronzes, while Carracci's military portrait and Rembrandt's print find favour where Rubens's daughter flounders in £31.1m sale

Hong Kong show features rarely seen archival material, while 23 artists have made new works for an exhibition dedicated to memory in London

No big hitters, but overall quality and new buyers from Asia and Latin America buoyed £42.6m auction, with £5.3m record for Canova set in day sale

Veteran Old Master dealer will join the auction house in New York at the end of the summer, months after selling his inventory there

Bronze and marble take centre stage during Old Masters sales week, although Dresden Mars returns home without going on the block at Sotheby's

Sotheby’s withdrew bronze sculpture of Mars from auction at last minute

Maurizio Seracini concurs that the painting sold by Sotheby’s in 2012 is a modern forgery

From a Van Dyck once thought to be by Rubens to William Nicholson's portrait of an actress identified only weeks ago

Ayad says decision to leave was "personal" and plans to launch her own art consultancy

Franco-American scion of art dealing dynasty was accused of hiding art and other property worth hundreds of millions of euros from French authorities

Netherlands-based organisation will oversee events as two-year agreement with US firm expires, but Michael Plummer and Jeff Rabin remain as shareholders

UK capital's heatwave lends a relaxed summer atmosphere to cross-collecting fair, where deals are done at a slower tempo than at contemporary events

Christie’s introduces day sale format and established names give way to new talent

New shows at commercial galleries, from Canova's prank portrait of Giorgione to a feminist take on Pop art

Easel will offer careers information, a mentorship programme and a grant scheme to subsidise low wages in entry level roles

Artist was 80 years old when he began the painting of a former Tate cataloguer

New section at London fair will explore artists who railed against "the idea that genius resided solely in masculinity"

Increasing numbers of young artists are choosing to go it alone

New stakeholder MCH Group brings capital and contacts to an event shaking off its try-hard image

Steven Tananbaum sued the artist and gallery in April for failing to deliver works he bought in 2014

The Romanian painter’s prices have increased 160-fold over the past decade. But who, or what, is behind this steep rise?

ArtVilnius fair has just held its tenth edition and is building the market for ex-communist countries with long artistic traditions

Sotheby's sale fell below estimate while Christie’s provided some cheer, showing there is still money in Monet – but only the right one

Sotheby’s auction includes personal works by Hirst gifted to Dunphy, or sketched on the back of restaurant menus

The Polish art lover on her fascination with female artists and how she wishes she could have been seated at Judy Chicago's Dinner Party

Anny Shaw asks if auction houses and dealers should pay their dues to the artists from whom they profit

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Revising import controls on cultural goods could impact negatively on trade, dealer organisations say

“For all the supposed desire for transparency, no one will make the first move”

Sector has raised the bar for large works, but price and size do not always match