Shielding art prices from organic market conditions doesn't always pay off

Phillips’s recent private selling exhibition of Damien Hirst works marked 15 years of artists collaborating with auction houses, with or without gallery cooperation

Results offered at least modest reassurance at the house’s premier Frieze Week auction

"La Patience" (1948), which was one of two Balthus paintings in the museum’s collection, will go up for auction at Sotheby’s New York in November

A double-sided Fernand Léger estimated between $15m to $20m leads the offering, amassed by a Dutch shipping and oil magnate and his wife

In sales spanning this year and next, hundreds of works that once belonged to the SFMoMA trustee will be offered, including a box in a suitcase by Duchamp

The auctions will include a 1932 Picasso painting with a $120m estimate

The drawing, which was first sold by the Yorkshire auction house in 2021, depicts Dover harbour from an East India company ship

Major auction houses have posted steep falls in turnover for the year so far—but some categories, such as luxury goods, are booming

The painting, which featured prominently in a recent Colescott retrospective, hammered slightly below its estimate

The late-career painting is expected to break the artist’s $16.6m auction record this November

The autumn auctions will mark the first dedicated sales in North America tied to the powerful banking family

The British patron’s annual meetings on the Greek Island were a “who’s who of the contemporary art world”

Horten’s late husband became a billionaire during the “Aryanisation” of Nazi-era Germany

The painting's whereabouts were unknown for 80 years, but a Facebook post led to its rediscovery

The rare savoury still-life from 1962 will return to the market for the first time in at least 55 years

At least $230,000 worth of art and ephemera is being offered to repay creditors in the gallery's 2013 bankruptcy

The auction house will host its first outreach event in the rapidly growing Texan capital next month

The masses are being drawn in by the chance to see objects both fine and personal

An auction house spokesperson says Companies House figures do not represent full scope of business

'Exploring Art: From the Renaissance to Contemporary' launches this autumn at Christie’s

The painting was pulled from a sale in June following reports it was sold under duress in 1936 by Walter Blank, who died in Spain while fleeing Nazi Germany

An auction house in Austria intended to sell the artefact before officials stepped in, according to the Mexican government

Few big-ticket consignments and New York's turbo-charged May sales marred tonight's performance

"1919" is among Colescott’s most important works, according to Bonhams, and figured prominently in a recent touring retrospective

Under patrimony laws the museum cannot intervene during the auction but can buy up works at the final price

Buyers flocked to Lalanne’s famous sheep and helped ramp prices up past the auction house's estimates

Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer will offer a selection of works from the estate of Florence and Antoine Poncet

Art sales contracts now often include terms stating when and how you can—or rather, how you cannot—sell a work on

The art market salary report offers insights into salaried employment but the impact of low wages—and having children—in a time of rapid inflation are missing