“No fireworks” at last night's Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction that featured three restituted works

Our pick of highlights from this week's fairs and auctions around the world

The artist’s trademark motifs make his work easily recognisable and desirable—but there is more to this Surrealist than apples and bowler hats

He chronicled the African American experience when white male abstraction ruled. Now record prices for his work are frequently reset

Work will be offered without guarantee from the collection of the late Modernist composer Giancinto Scelsi

Christie's also holds its own at an auction of American furniture and folk art

Our pick of the highlights from this week's fairs and auctions

Current bid for re-imagined image of the controversial party leader stands at €45,000 in online auction

Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions

Softer YBA market faces test as collection amassed by London bond trader goes under the hammer at Phillips next month

Two paintings by Signac and one by Pissarro are expected to fetch as much as £20m

Unseen for 25 years, they all come from a very private American collector

Faced with economic uncertainty, turmoil in Hong Kong, Brexit and a shrinking auction market, the art trade has some justifiable anxiety about the coming year

We look back at the biggest art sales of the year, which reveal a concentration on New York over London and a continued dominance of 20th century male artists

One painting was hidden in a Parma cellar, leading to the discovery of the Tanzi Treasure

While her role grows to cover departments such as Old Masters, second global division will include luxury objects and decorative art, jewellery and wine

We look back at the stories that have overturned the art world order this year

Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's auctions and fairs

December auction generates less than half the total of last year's sale, with several lots failing to sell

Auction raised more than last year but supply still limited as Brexit-dominated general election looms

Te Bourao II, which went to an international collector, was on loan to the Met in New York for ten years

From a miracle scene seized by Nazis to a pensive painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs

The artist William Powell Frith 'almost collapsed' at the honour of being commissioned by the famous writer to paint his heroine Kate Nickleby

Painting depicting the Holy Family in an evening landscape has been owned by a Manhattan family for more than 60 years

Portrait of Dora Maar eclipses other auction offerings at Heffel

Small works won out at Sotheby's and Christie's as top lots went for their low estimates or were withdrawn

Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's auctions and fairs

Overall sales were down by around 30% but beyond the disappointing headline figures, women and minority artists shone

Sculpture—estimated at £1m—was removed from the street by Andy Link in 2004 but later “liberated” from his East End garden