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

Christie’s will sell the piece with a £600,000 price tag next October to coincide with artist’s Royal Academy retrospective

The chairman of Phillips on boardroom battles and joining the underdog

Chief financial officer Michael Goss is replaced by Jean-Luc Berrebi per the terms of the merger, which sees shareholders compensated $57 per share

With 91% of shareholders in favour, the publicly traded auction house will officially go private after three decades on the New York Stock Exchange

Lawsuits argue that information filed to the SEC is inadequate

The appointment comes after a handful of new hires across the auction house’s offices

New exhibition on Joan Carlile, Mary Beale and Anne Killigrew opens in London this week

Monet's waterlilies and Modigliani's portrait of an unknown boy lead the 25-lot sale, and new record made for Austrian artist Alfred Kubin's haunting drawing

Early Schiele drawing is the low-key star of an unremarkable sale, topped by a flashy Picasso