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?

Auction house kicked off its year-long restitution programme in Paris last week which aims to educate collectors and buyers

Strauss & Co is launching a new sale format with the aim of fostering a more inclusive African art market

Don't be fooled by the higher-than-ever sale figures—the market is softening

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

Heirs of Jewish art critic forced to sell the work estimated at $15m now set to benefit from Sotheby’s auction

Patti Wong & Associates will partner with London-based advisory The Fine Art Group to expand its global reach

Auctioneer Simon de Pury looks into his crystal hammer

A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work

Single-owner collections and millennials boost auction house’s revenues despite “challenging macro environment”

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

It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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

Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach

Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio

Charity sales, while undoubtedly a positive, tend to skew valuable auction data upwards and muddy an already opaque market

Closed borders have impacted the selection of offerings this season, specialists say

The National Institute of Anthropology and History has recently accused two auction houses of holding problematic—yet not illegal—sales of historic objects

Bolland & Marotz in Bremen issued a statement this week saying it was "outraged" by the incident

Authorities received an anonymous tip regarding an object listed for sale on the auction house’s website and described as a Mescalero Apache scalp

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

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

The 16th-century mask was withdrawn from sale at Sotheby’s over a decade ago amid escalating calls for restitution

Plus, a bovine Lalanne sculpture and a pair of Chinese vases

The Himaya project based in Qatar has been working with Interpol to identify artefacts trafficked to London, Paris and Amsterdam

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

In our new series Reality Bites, we assess whether the art market's key players are addressing the urgent issues affecting the wider world

Joint venture announced amid declining sales figures at Chinese auction house

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

Each of the houses in the growing consortium will keep its identity, but share the back end of the business