Auction houses
From the world’s most expensive Bible to Andy Warhol's portrait of O.J. Simpson: our pick of the highlights from May's sales
Plus, the poems that became sculptures
What are you worth? New report reveals art world salaries, from £22,500 for gallery assistants to over £250,000 for top sales directors
The report, published by recruitment firm Sophie Macpherson, used base salary data from 2022
Battle of the Basquiats: Christie’s and Sotheby’s both have big, eight-figure paintings lined up for marquee spring sales
'El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)' and 'Now’s the Time' are estimated to sell for $45m at Christie’s and $30m at Sotheby’s, respectively
Artcurial expands into Switzerland with a stake in auction house Beurret Bailly Widmer
The Swiss company will now be called Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, with the three Swiss founders remaining as partners
'Don't fear recession—it could create the art market’s next revolution'
While auction houses and dealers are increasingly worried of a downturn, a look back to the 1970s and 1980s suggests that their anxieties might be unfounded
Van Gogh was an early admirer of Vermeer: 'celestial blues and yellows.. I can’t paint as beautifully as that'
And a surprise: Vincent’s brother Theo helped sell two paintings by the Delft master
Backroom deals for wet paintings: why contemporary art is driving private sales for auction houses
Shortening art market cycles and the politics around "flipping" artworks are leading collectors to conduct business away from public scrutiny
Bonhams closes gender pay gap by 39%, but Sotheby’s and Christie’s lag behind
UK’s public institutions continue to provide a greater degree of equity—though this is not even across all pay brackets
Global art market 'beginning to cool’, according to latest Art Basel/UBS report
Total sales grew just 3% in 2022, while China's zero-Covid policies saw UK overtake it as second-biggest market
After fallout, Sotheby’s seeks to fix ‘glitch’ in its NFT sale by including more women
Auction house faced online backlash over male-dominated digital art sale
Renoir portrait once owned by art dealer Ambroise Vollard could fetch €650,000 at Paris auction
Painting was sold by Vollard in 1930 and has never been publicly exhibited before
Phillips unveils new Asia headquarters in Hong Kong, promising investment in local scene after 'difficult' few years
The opening of the 52,000 sq ft Kowloon space kicked off the city's first international art week since Covid restrictions lifted
Works worth more than $20m accounted for nearly half of auction sales in 2022, according to new Sotheby's report
Report also highlights how Asian, Millennial and Gen X buyers are changing the demographic of the market
'Museum-quality' works by Bill Woodrow pulled from Saatchi & Saatchi collection sale after last-minute intervention
Eight sculptures were being offered by auction house Roseberys at prices so low they would have been "destructive to his career", according to the artist Richard Deacon
How one year of Russian sanctions have shaped the art market
Businesses urged to tighten approach to client background checks as US subpoenas auction houses for sales records
Magritte painting thought to be an homage to Vermeer heads to auction in Paris
Surrealist work is estimated to make €2m at Sotheby's
Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi heads to court in case against Sotheby's
New York judge rules the auction house must face trial as part of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s art fraud lawsuit
Phillips reveals launch programme of Asia headquarters in Hong Kong
Works by Yayoi Kusama, Matthew Wong and Loie Hollowell will headline a preview exhibition for its inaugural auctions in March
A 200-year-old family collection of largely unseen Théodore Géricault paintings heads to auction
The sale at Sotheby’s Paris will include seven works by the artist with Portrait of Zoé Elmore carrying the highest estimate of €1.2m
US authorities subpoena auction houses in effort to crack down on violations of Russian sanctions
Prosecutors in New York are seeking auction house sales information going back years in order to track potentially illicit transactions by sanctioned Russian collectors
Bonhams owner floats sale of auction house at $1bn
Epiris private equity group, which owns the auction house, has reportedly approached JP Morgan Chase & Co to advise on the deal
Unusually large Brueghel the Younger painting—rediscovered in France—offered at Paris auction for €600,000
The work, depicting a village scene, is being sold at Hôtel Drouot
Police investigation prompts French auction house to postpone sale of Chandigarh furniture
Reports of thefts of heritage furniture items from buildings across the Indian city have risen over the past ten years
French court orders Christie's to restitute a Nazi-looted painting sold in London
As the panel was looted in Paris, the magistrates claimed jurisdiction of the French courts over the High Court in London
The donating game: How artists like Tracey Emin are driving philanthropy in the art world
The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?
Christie's marks 25 years of the Washington Principles on Nazi-confiscated art
Auction house kicked off its year-long restitution programme in Paris last week which aims to educate collectors and buyers
Global demand for African art brings near-record year for South African auction house despite ‘much higher degrees of uncertainty’
Strauss & Co is launching a new sale format with the aim of fostering a more inclusive African art market
Guarantees, withdrawals and billionaires bidding at their own auction houses: Flagging market gets by with a little help from its friends
Don't be fooled by the higher-than-ever sale figures—the market is softening
Early Freud beachscape painted on holiday with artist John Craxton—former friend, possible lover and bitter enemy—to be auctioned for £3.5m
Christie's will offer Scillionian Beachscape alongside a late garden scene by Freud, both of which were once in the collection of renowned patron Simon Sainsbury
Another monumental Munch painting once hidden from Nazis in a barn heads to the block
Heirs of Jewish art critic forced to sell the work estimated at $15m now set to benefit from Sotheby’s auction