Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery

The £12.2m auction relied on tried and tested names, but estimates proved too high for buyers' appetites

Double-header sale in London last night was led by René Magritte with strong prices for Paul Delvaux and Tamara de Lempicka

Last night's sale at Sotheby's, which totalled £62.5m, also included a £4.3m Banksy sold by blink-182 frontman Mark Hoppus

Nine bidders competed for the 15th century painting of a Virgin and child at Sotheby's, while Zoffany, Tiepolo and Van Dyck topped auctions at Bonhams and Christie's

Despite Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian selling for a staggering $6.2m, The Now and contemporary auctions in New York made 63% less than last year

The interior designer Mica Ertegun's Surrealist L'empire des lumières sold for a record $121.1m in New York last night, with a new high also set for Ed Ruscha

Kicking off November's marquee evening sales, the house brought in a total of $268.6m from 49 lots

The small 23-lot contemporary art auction last night realised a total of £37.5m

Despite some tense moments and a difficult market, the event proved solid, 'affirming' the auction house's decision to scrap June sales

The firm's first major sale in its new Hong Kong headquarters saw spirited bidding for contemporary works and regional records for paintings by Van Gogh and Monet

Slim auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's saw a rediscovered Quentin Metsys and a modestly priced Botticelli come to the block

Bright spots in the heavily guaranteed auction included a £15m Basquiat and competition for the collection of Ralph I. Goldenberg

Works by Jean Paul Riopelle, Emily Carr, Tom Thomson and other titans of Canadian art history contributed to the evening’s total take of C$22.6m

The reassuring result was a marked increase from last year's equivalent auction—despite a cyberattack that has taken down the auction house's website

The 20th/21st century and Art of the Surreal auctions were up 18.5% by value on their March 2023 versions

The 27-lot sale brought in £10.9m without fees after three works were pulled and another three failed to sell

The auction house made £82m before fees and set records for Etel Adnan and Takako Yamaguchi

The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total

The auction, spanning Monet to Miró, made $190.3m—just above its low estimate—and was preceded by the record-breaking sale of a Ferrari car

Swan song of veteran auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen made $640.8m—the house's highest total for a non-single-owner sale in six years

The evening's total take of $406.4m was a sign of a stability—albeit one under-girded by guarantees and third-party backing—in a jittery market

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

The evening kicked off with a sale of 20th- and 21st-century art, followed by works from the collection of the late businessman Sam Josefowitz

The auction house’s The Now sale of ultra-contemporary art was a success, but its marquee contemporary art sale came up well short of expectations

The auction house made £53.9m (with fees) from 38 lots, and saw a new record established for Fra Angelico

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

The Canadian auction house also saw strong results from works by members of the Group of Seven and a soaring Warhol print

The firm’s Modern art evening sale and single-owner Mo Ostin auction brought in a below-estimate hammer total of $363.9m, or $427m with fees

The auction house’s bottom line benefitted from the strong performance of works from the collections of S.I. Newhouse and Paul G. Allen