Auction Report
Ed Sheeran is selling his Lego set—and his art
The singer has donated his "Jackson Pollocky" painting to a GeeWizz charity auction alongside hand-written song lyrics and other memorabilia
The Royal Opera House's David Hockney painting sells for £12.8m at Christie's amid deaccessioning debate
The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations
Revealed: sellers of £7.6m Banksy were London collectors who provided venue for artist's 2005 Crude Oils exhibition
As part of the deal, Roland and Jane Cowan acquired the faux Impressionist canvas from the artist—it sold last night at Sotheby's
Christies winds up belated summer auction season with £21.2m Classic Art sale led by £4m Rubens
16th century Italian marble attributed to Antonio Lombardo steals the show, but auction house's digital face is showing its age against stiff competition
Restituted Renaissance battle scene highlight of Sotheby’s pick-and-mix £150m evening sale
Six works were withdrawn by nervy vendors just before the start but Rembrandt to Richter sale still totalled nearly £150m, topped by a £22.3m Joan Miró
Brave new world: Francis Bacon triptych sells for $84.5m in Sotheby's first major live-streamed evening sale
Marathon online hi-tech auction was the first of its kind attempted by Sotheby's and totalled $363.2m, boosting confidence that a top-end market still exists
And all that jazz: upbeat sale at Christie's sees Tamara De Lempicka portrait beat record set just three months ago
Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction last night made £106.8m, 35% down on last year—but with three works sold for over £10m
Sotheby's new owner Patrick Drahi comes to auction house's first sale in post-Brexit Britain
“No fireworks” at last night's Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction that featured three restituted works
Sale reports: Impressionist and Modern, Surrealism, and Contemporary
Peaks for best modern and contemporary artists High prices for works by Miró, Bacon, Moore and Richter are reminiscent of the boom
Turkish artists get more international exposure following art sale at UK auction houses
A careful look at the catalogues unveils some of the peculiar dynamics of the market for Turkish contemporary art
Chinese auction data lacks credibility
Leading British university research questions saleroom reporting
Post-war and contemporary auction report: cautious but confident
Some good prices were made, but top quality works were relatively thin on the ground
Hesitant buyers pull through with satisfactory sales at Sotheby's Arab and Iranian contemporary art auction 2010
But Iran’s Moshiri can’t get into the Middle East top ten
Lukewarm reception of US's first Iranian contemporary art sale a reflection of tentative market
Experts blame poor sales on a dearth of representation in US museums
Contemporary Art auction report: Warhol’s dollar bills attract big bucks in New York sales
The market has recalibrated, but major pieces spark highly charged bidding wars
Paintings dumped at charity shop make six figures
The paintings were appraised after a Goodwill employee spotted the pair
British Art Auction report: The Bacon and Freud effect
Recent record prices for the two artists boosted results for 20th-century British works, while Victorian art struggled
Iranian artists triumph at Christie's Dubai as contemporary market hits its stride
Christie's '08 auction report sees the mediocre pushed aside to make way for big names
Ukrainian artists lead the day at Kiev auction
Yet secrecy over values remained a priority at the Art Kapital auction
Tax breaks fuel Korean sales
Buyers were active in recent auctions and three new art funds have been started
Bonhams u-turns on no-sale of Sevso silver
Last month the auction house told us it would not sell the hoard, but now it says it might
Auction sales of art shrank again in 2003
Figures show between 1.2% and 17% decline in turnover
British auction houses develop ties with Cambodia
Sotheby's and Christie'shave been working with Cambodian authorities and organisations in the art world
New York auction season report: Strong bidding, powerful prices
Sotheby’s cuts losses, sells London Institute
Christie’s Picasso sale saw prices soar; but the highest-priced lots were the least desired
Most of the unsold lots were high-value items unlikely to attract new buyers
Sales results provide reinforcing evidence that the field of photography and its market remain steadfast and financially solid
“Traditional notions of composition and beauty do very well”
With the Paris auction market soon to be cracked wide open to outside competition, all eyes were on the first major sales to be held this year
Tip-top results for two very different sales
An overview of Paris’s top five auction houses at the turn of the millennium
Tajan and PIASA lead the list
London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s