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?

Executive salaries rises, while junior staff struggle to move up the ladder