The ambitious auctioneer started out in car racing before going into art and antiques, eventually retiring to his farm near Exmoor to rear a herd of beef cattle

The London-based dealer of four decades is downsizing and having a 200-lot sale of contemporary art, Modern furniture, ethnographic art and antiquities

When prices and cultural value are so easily confused, there is a case for the return of critical evaluation—in updated form

Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions

The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m-$10m for ClientEarth

Auction sales, according to the analysts ArtTactic, are up 230% to a total of $5.9bn so far this year at the three major auction houses, Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips

An export ban was placed on the drawing in 2017 but the French culture ministry has not purchased the drawing as planned

Seasonal two-storey space is newest addition to Monaco's growing commercial art scene

The thrusting land of NFTs and tech nomads favours the young—and has yet to shake off the old ties of nepotism

But the show goes on at Sotheby’s and Christie’s with a mixture of in-person and remote bidding, while British dealers are getting creative in the Big Apple

Auction house has partnered with disability charity Leonard Cheshire's Change 100 programme to give work placements in-house and fund others at Tate and National Galleries of Scotland

Art History Link-Up chief says subject is a rare offer at state schools because of cuts and teacher shortages

The current chief, Edward Dolman, will shift in September to a new role as executive chairman of Phillips’ holding company

Online sale will span the 17th to the 21st centuries featuring artists including Dorothea Tanning, Hannah Höch and Barbara Hepworth

The painting's low estimate of $9m is ten times the artist's record at auction

Auction house's head of sale Max Moore has already personally bought a work by the artist

Online sales, a growing pool of billionaires and reduced overheads all helped sustain the trade when physical art fairs and auctions all but disappeared

Actéon auctioneers expect the 17th-century study of a male nude, authenticated by Ann Sutherland Harris and Louis de Bayser, to sell for €30,000 to €50,000

The buyer of Beeple's NFT work will be able to pay with ETH later this month

While today’s art world has been shaped by the prism of price, our current economic model may not be inevitable

The French capital seems resurgent, but other elements may intervene

Chippendale-style furniture, elephant tureens and a broadside edition of the Declaration of Independence were in demand at the sales series last week

Art as a blue-chip investment has had its day, as buyers chase the latest "red-chip" names

Art dealers, shippers and auctioneers are unsure about how leaving the single market will impact their business—but there is a silver lining

As his new book is published, the auction house chief compares coronavirus fallout to previous economic disasters

Expecting the worst, French, German and Austrian auction houses have been surprised by how well sales have held up through the pandemic

The two rivals have made record online and private sales as pandemic overturns traditional live auction format

Star sold seven illustrations in aid of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity

Online auction of art and antiques that would have been exhibited at Parisian fair achieves €1.5m with 21 of 91 lots sold

The $29.2m painting sold at Sotheby's last night in a live-streamed contemporary art sale that took place in Hong Kong as Christie's held its marquee sale in New York

Christie's and Sotheby's have rapidly adapted to 'bricks and clicks' sales, but they will need to do more to attract top-notch consignments and the experience-hungry generation

The figures, carved by tribal members every winter and left in ceremonial shrines atop a mountain, have regularly been stolen and made their into museums and private collections throughout the US and Europe

Now the chairman of Sotheby's Financial Services, Klabin was previously approached to back a competing offer to block last year's buyout of the auction house by Patrick Drahi

With no Frieze Art Fair, contemporary art London sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips will now take place at the end of October, when Fiac is due to open in Paris

Mutually beneficial collaborations between Western and Chinese auction houses are on the rise

Destinee Ross-Sutton has co-organised the online selling show Say It Loud which features works by 22 artists including Nelson Makamo and Yoyo Lander

Value of private sales at auction house remain around the same as last year at $575m but number of online auctions more than doubles

The industry remains subtly discriminatory and must abandon some obsolete ways if it is to truly change for the better

New 20th and 21st Centuries department will be led by Alex Rotter and Giovanna Bertazzoni

Airline has called in Sotheby's to value and sell at least ten pieces from its collection, which includes works by Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig

The co-founder of Art Agency, Partners will transition to a consultant role as Nina del Rio takes the helm of the auction house's advisory services

The coronavirus lockdown is boosting lower level virtual sales, but only a major live auction will kick-start the top end of the art market and revalidate prices

Collaboration, dubbed 2020+, will take place in late September: Christie's says it is not a reaction to easing of coronavirus lockdown in Chinese city

Chief executive Charles Stewart lays plans for the auction house’s flagship sales to be held in New York next month

In the era of social distancing, auctioneers may have to conduct sales to an empty room

Featuring galleries like Petzel, Lehmann Maupin and Jack Shainman, the buy-now marketplace transacts sales through the auction house at publicly listed prices

Manhattan prosecutors say the auction house failed to collect sales tax on $189m in private sales over five years

Plus, Sean Scully talks about his favourite "lonely work", The Moroccans by Matisse in New York's Museum of Modern Art. Produced in association with Christie's

Move is in line with Christie's and Phillips which postponed their sales to late June, but Sotheby's is yet to announce when its auctions will actually happen

Expanded 20th-century art week in US will swallow up London auctions; Sotheby's has yet to make a decision about its New York spring sales

While auction houses are more aggressive and newer works dominate the global market, Tefaf’s exhibitors remain resolute

The deputy chairman of the Paris-based auction house Artcurial was suffering from food poisoning

The firm is also rolling its London June sales into one week for the first time in more than a decade

From Marrakech to Cape Town, the continent's growing fairs and auctions scene is catering to a burgeoning domestic buying base

Former jewellery specialist, who joined the firm in 1988, will be replaced by Bruno Vinciguerra, who will also continue in his role as executive chairman

“No fireworks” at last night's Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction that featured three restituted works

March auction will return to the Emirate in spring 2021, but is cancelled this year due to new strategy and constrained supply of works

Supported by transformational new technology, the sector is ditching its traditional business model in favour of the luxury goods market

A London-based investment company must repay more than $5.3m to the auction house, which refunded an American client for work

Will new management be able to grow the newly privatised auction house on a tight budget?