New report makes grim reading in run-up to London’s autumn sales season

Our exclusive analysis of auction records in Paris until 1850 reveals around 500 sales of works by women, and striking parallels to the art trade today

All change as the final auction season of 2024 goes into full swing

The 1912 painting is believed to have been gifted by the artist to friends who later moved to the Hamptons, where a discerning dealer nabbed it decades later for a bargain

Top lots at the auction arranged by the esteemed curator before his death in August included two “date paintings” by On Kawara, a close friend

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

The auction house will hold its first live evening sale in the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed Henderson Building today

Bankruptcy trustees have proposed selling hundreds of works through the auction house, with hopes to recover up to $2m

Ria, Naked Portrait (2006-07) depicts an art handler who approached the artist, then in his 80s, to pose for the painting

The sale's most valuable lot, a water lily painting by Claude Monet, is expected to sell in the region of $60m

If it goes for the auction house's estimate, "L'empire des lumières" (1954), from the collection of late interior designer Mica Ertegun, would set an auction record for the Surrealist artist

Sotheby’s reported plunge in earnings is part of a bigger picture

Increasingly unsettled elites are making a struggling market even less predictable

The work will headline the inaugural sale at Christie's new Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters in the Henderson building

Patrick Drahi will remain auction house's majority shareholder in $1bn deal, as ADQ buys shares to "reduce leverage" and support "growth and innovation"

The unusual move halted a court-ordered auction of around 1,400 objects for the second time in four months

But consistent strength in its sell-through rate and Asia Pacific buyer base show the auction house's ‘resilience’ amid obstacles

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

The work, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s today, was one of more than 2,500 held as collateral and sold, shortly before the Nazi invasion, by the Dutch bank Lisser & Rosenkranz

The Venetian master's exquisite early depiction of the Holy Family, once recovered in a bag at a bus-stop seven years after being stolen from Longleat House, is estimated to fetch £15m-£25m in London sale

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

Conservation has revealed the extensive changes Rubens made to a work originally by Herri Met de Bles

Yayoi Kusama's "Phantom Polka Dots of Fate, Ordained by Heaven, Were the Greatest Gift Ever for Me" to be sold by Sealed Auctions and on view in Sotheby’s New Bond Street Galleries. Success of Sealed Auctions has led to an expansion into fine art

The portraits painted by Bartholomäus Zeitblom carry an estimate of £400,000-£600,000

Works by the painter, owned by the controversial "playboy" socialite, were offered at Christie's New York this month

Recently unsealed court filings show 71 works by artists like Basquiat, Twombly and Giacometti were unloaded over a two-year period

The show by the aspiring artist is supported by the auction house and the charity Art of Wishes

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 results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert'

Major results for Félix González-Torres and Jean-Michel Basquiat lifted the De la Cruz collection and 21st-century double-header