Our pick of the highlights from upcoming fairs and auctions

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we spoke with Eyal Ilya, owner of Pentagon Auction House in Israel, about the trend for Second World War artefacts

Painting, acquired by private British collector “from the easel” in 1987, will be sold at Christie's in London in March

Schultz, who died last month, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion he cheated customers

Former Take That star acquired the works directly from the artist’s studio in the mid-2000s

The sale traces her intellectual development from a law student and avid reader to one of the most recognizable justices on the Supreme Court.

Proceeds from the sale were meant to fund a memorial garden and museum around the freedom fighter’s burial site

This Roman villa with its great masterpieces will be re-offered on 7 April at a 20% lower valuation

The Ludovisi Casino in Rome, with its masterpiece frescoes, is up for auction by the courts, estimate nearly half a billion euro

The group Spice DAO planned to sell NFTs based on the contents of the book, which details Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ambitious but failed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel

Infrared images of the painting, which is due to be sold at Sotheby's in New York later this month, show that an earlier composition lies underneath

The panel is thought to be the pair of Strigel's Thurifer Angel, which was bought by the Louvre Abu Dhabi in Paris in 2008

Hermann Gerlinger had been loaning his 1,000 works to museums, but will now sell them through Munich-based auction house Ketterer Kunst

US dominance, industry collaborations and increased concern about climate change are all on art market experts’ minds—and, of course, NFTs

Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions

The latest China Art & Wealth White Paper found that domestic annual sales dropped by 20% to $6.2bn last year, due to Covid-19 controls, but recovered quickly later in the year

My trip to Munich's Alte Pinakothek was worth the multiple levels of Covid-related admin

Sarah Biffin was an accomplished miniaturist who was so famous in her lifetime Charles Dickens referred to her in three novels

The star of the sales was a pair of half-length portraits by Van Dyck that sold for £6.2m at Sotheby's, the second-highest price for the artist at auction

The firm is buying the London-based books and works on paper specialist Forum Auctions—it previously bought Dreweatts and Bloomsbury for £1.25m in 2017

The work, consisting of 83 child-size figures in concrete and wood, was made in the late 1990s and has been exhibited on the roof of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

The painting was consigned to China Guardian’s first Impressionist and Modern art sale by Lévy Gorvy gallery

New York's "gigafortnight" sales of the Cox and Macklowe collections showed there is still a market for classics—even while a Beeple sells for $29m to a tweeting tech entrepreneur

Our pick of the works coming up for sale in London and Munich

The real-estate tycoon, a key patron of Zeng, has not been seen since she was "disappeared"—the painting, Prayer, is now described by Poly auctions as "entrusted by an important institution"

The specialist New York auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's made $28.9m and $14.2m respectively

Highlights include a platinum diamond ring and his signature white silk cape

The larger than life-size statue was brought back from Rome by the Duke of Hamilton in the 18th century and is named after his Scottish palace