Auction houses
New business, familiar face: former Sotheby’s chairperson Patti Wong launches advisory focused on top Asian collectors
Patti Wong & Associates will partner with London-based advisory The Fine Art Group to expand its global reach
Art market predictions for 2023: wet painting is out but guarantees are here to stay
Auctioneer Simon de Pury looks into his crystal hammer
Paris auction house Artcurial reports best year of sales—despite a downturn in trade of 20th- and 21st-century art
A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work
‘An absolute art market record’: Christie’s posts $8.4bn in sales for 2022
Single-owner collections and millennials boost auction house’s revenues despite “challenging macro environment”
Brexit woes contribute to slim Old Master sales in London
Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December
First wooden sculpture by Die Brücke founder Erich Heckel offered at auction goes on sale in Munich for €600,000
It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Old Masters need reinventing to avoid being frozen out
Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention
Poland says Kandinsky painting sold at Berlin auction house was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw
Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach
Damaged Salvator Mundi copy by unknown artist sells for €1m at Christie's
Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio
'The downside to art world altruism that no one talks about'
Charity sales, while undoubtedly a positive, tend to skew valuable auction data upwards and muddy an already opaque market
Hong Kong's autumn auctions for modern and contemporary art saw a 38% drop from last year—but why?
Closed borders have impacted the selection of offerings this season, specialists say
Mexico condemns European auction houses’ sales of pre-Hispanic archaeological artefacts
The National Institute of Anthropology and History has recently accused two auction houses of holding problematic—yet not illegal—sales of historic objects
Fake video claims German auction house will raise funds for Ukraine by selling—and then destroying—Russian art
Bolland & Marotz in Bremen issued a statement this week saying it was "outraged" by the incident
Alleged Native American scalp seized from auction house specialised in Confederate and Nazi memorabilia
Authorities received an anonymous tip regarding an object listed for sale on the auction house’s website and described as a Mescalero Apache scalp
Why the global explosion of billionaires will keep auction houses afloat—for now
Record-breaking sales from the collections of Microsoft founder Paul G. Allen and the acrimoniously divorced Macklowes herald the start of a 20-year bonanza for auction houses
How does the market judge 'juvenile' work by name-brand blue-chip artists? Two early Warhol paintings are about to find out
Offered next week at Phillip's New York, the works were made during Warhol's student days and bear no resemblance to his signature styles
Qatari sheikh’s rare ivory mask, stolen from Benin City by the British, is one of five on public display—none in Nigeria
The 16th-century mask was withdrawn from sale at Sotheby’s over a decade ago amid escalating calls for restitution
From a restituted Chagall painting to a family portrait by Freud: our pick of the highlights from November's sales
Plus, a bovine Lalanne sculpture and a pair of Chinese vases
Stolen Afghan manuscripts have been coming up for sale at major auction houses, according to research group
The Himaya project based in Qatar has been working with Interpol to identify artefacts trafficked to London, Paris and Amsterdam
Christie's comes under fire for 'art handler' streetwear collaboration
After multiple art handlers complained online about low wages, misrepresentation and class tourism, traces of the collaboration with Highsnobiety all but disappeared and a senior executive issued a mea culpa
All hot air on climate action? Auction houses pledge to cut CO2 while organising global tours for star lots
In our new series Reality Bites, we assess whether the art market's key players are addressing the urgent issues affecting the wider world
Phillips partners with Beijing auction house Yongle for series of joint sales
Joint venture announced amid declining sales figures at Chinese auction house
'Will Christie’s strike gold with its first private fund for tech ventures?'
Crypto might have crashed, but online-only sales and other digital channels are allowing auction houses to deepen their business beyond the thin market for blue-chip art
Regional auction firm Rago/Wright continues to grow, merging with Chicago-based house Toomey & Co.
Each of the houses in the growing consortium will keep its identity, but share the back end of the business
Sotheby's to sell $70m of art stored at MoMA to benefit New York museum's digital initiatives
Francis Bacon triptych and Renoir still life among works from the collection of CBS founder William S. Paley that have been "under the museum's stewardship" since his death
L.S. Lowry painting could fetch a record £8m for football charity that received official ‘mismanagement’ warning
The Players Foundation says the current financial crisis has forced it to reassess how it manages its assets and ensures its benevolent work is ongoing
William MacDougall, founder of UK's largest Russian-focused auction house, has died
Founded in 2004, MacDougall's was the first international auction house to have representatives in Moscow and Kyiv
'It's about setting the record straight': A Warhol of disputed authenticity and chequered association heads to auction
Offered next month for $500,000 to $700,000, the silkscreen canvas work is from the same series as another that was at the centre of $20m lawsuit against the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Sotheby’s launches primary market channel selling works directly from artists’ studios
For each work sold, 15% will go to a charity or institution of the artist’s choice—but will the new sales format ruffle dealers’ feathers?
From K-pop star visits to crying and tattooing at a low-fi auction: the latest gossip from Frieze Seoul
Plus, will Anselm Kiefer enliven the saddest museum in Korea?