The £39.4m auction was led by a 15th-century painting by the Master of the Baroncelli Portraits at £7.9m, while a new record was set for a work by William Hogarth—albeit sold to a single bid

Plus one of only four paintings by the 15th century Master of the Baroncelli portraits

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

The night's star lot made up nearly half of the £190.3m total for Sotheby's Modern and contemporary evening auction

The 2004 work Congestion Charge has a high estimate of £1.8m in the 29 June auction

Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer will offer a selection of works from the estate of Florence and Antoine Poncet

Plus imposing heads by Giacometti

Sale of Italian film star’s 350-piece collection halted over suspicions that her assistant pressured her to sell

The auction house's evening sale on 5 June was the most successful in its history

Rediscovered panel painting comes to Christie’s evening sale in London next month with an estimate of £4m-£6m

Specialists at Christie’s and Sotheby’s dismissed concerns about a decline in the Old Masters market

The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government

Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m

A double-header night of The Now and contemporary art auctions set ten new artist records, boosting confidence after a lacklustre Christie's sale of the Gerald Fineberg collection

Plus, the Richard Prince copyright case and Sarah Sze in London

Despite the underwhelming result, the sale notched new auction records for Barkley Hendricks and Alma Thomas

The price for the Codex Sassoon surpassed the sum Bill Gates paid for a Leonardo da Vinci codex in 1994

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

Proceeds from prints that were first published in the bestselling coffee table book will go toward the singer’s Malawi non-profit

Demand for ultra contemporary works may have eased but there is little sign of a sales slump, say the New York firms

Some 30 objects in an auction this week are protected by Mexico’s cultural heritage laws, authorities there say

There is a growing trend for guarantors to spread their risk by selling off parts of their guarantees—violating auction house rules

Looted by the Nazis, after the war it was returned to the Rothschild family

Questions resurface over New York museum’s rationale for consigning works by the artist to auction

More than 1,500 lots, including original lyrics and Victorian paintings, from the rockstar’s London home will be sold in September by former girlfriend and close friend Mary Austin

The paintings and drawings are estimated to fetch more than $8m at Christie’s New York in May

Plus, dramatic scenes from the Iliad and a delicate Modigliani head

Four works recently returned to heirs of the influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard will go under the hammer in New York next month

Results from the recent auction season, where young, “red-chip” artists surpassed expectations, while big names of Modern art went unsold, point to a shift in how collectors think

"Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30", expected to sell for between $3m and $5m, was painted in the artist's most productive period