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The 16th-century mask was withdrawn from sale at Sotheby’s over a decade ago amid escalating calls for restitution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

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

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

Founded in 2004, MacDougall's was the first international auction house to have representatives in Moscow and Kyiv

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

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?

Plus, will Anselm Kiefer enliven the saddest museum in Korea?

Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels

Sotheby's will offer Chinese antiquities and Impressionist portraits amassed by the scion of one of Hong Kong's richest families

The auction in November includes prized works from Paul Cezanne and Jasper Johns

According to Korean media, the group is close to finalising a contract to spend around $173m to acquire a majority share in the country’s largest auction house