Today, art history is increasingly being written by dealers and auctioneers to suit their own purpose

Just when we thought Frieze week was all over, twists and turns provide high drama at Sotheby’s contemporary evening sale on Friday night

Francis Bacon's lighter depiction of George Dyer leads auction at £17.5m, with strong prices for Hurvin Anderson, Bridget Riley and Albert Oehlen

Fair focuses on women but market still favours men

Move follows a record-breaking breaking year for Paris auctions in 2017

No buyer's premium and bidding paddles on your phone, but founder still believes holding physical auctions is key

Stringent cultural heritage laws and bureaucracy are making consignments much harder to find

Just two paintings significantly damaged the auction house's bottom line in the second quarter

Book provides a sampling of personalities, acquisition strategies and collections that many Europeans may not know

Rockefeller auction plus leap in private and online sales drive 26% increase

A “purr-fect” ending to the story of the missing pottery object found in the collection of the artist’s secret granddaughter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Object was returned to consigner not museum from where it was looted at the end of Second World War

Aguttes sold the fossil to an anonymous buyer, who may name the new species, despite protests from paleontologists

Hostile relations between Russia and the West following attempted poisoning of former MI6 spy may dampen bidding at London's Russian sales

Villa Grisebach says price is the highest paid for any work in a German auction

Still no evening auction, but blue-chip artists make way for fresh talent in new day sale format

Blaming an ingrained culture, auction houses vow to correct imbalance in women’s pay and representation in the highest ranks

Advisory group NM Rothschild has reportedly been brought in to oversee a possible sale of the British auction house

Highlights include works by Cady Noland, Kerry James Marshall and Lyonel Feininger

The heads of Christie's, Bonhams and Phillips speak on market shifts, challenges and why they believe their model will succeed

Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions