Vincent writes philosophically about his mental illness, a year after mutilating his ear

Our pick of the highlights from April's fairs and auctions

The French museum is now seeking funds to buy the still-life painting, which was sold last week by Artcurial to a US dealer for €24.3m

Only two of the 12 works have been guaranteed, an oddity in the recent string of high-profile single-owner sales

Asian spending continues to grow, particularly at auction, while the UK’s market share shrinks to historic lows as Brexit woes linger

The artefacts were flagged by Christos Tsiogiannis, who has, since 2006, been identifying looted antiquities through photographic archives of suspected and convicted dealers in plunder

The New York dealer Adam Williams bought the fruity still-life

The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold

The firm bags a second Scandinavian auction house as sector consolidation continues

The painting, being sold by the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation, could become the most expensive 20th century work of art ever sold at auction when it is offered in New York in May

The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years

The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"

The sale of the canonical early Cubist sculpture will bolster the museum’s acquisitions fund and at no great cost to its collection, which includes another edition of the work

Phillips will sell 16 works in aid of the London University institution tomorrow

The sprawling 20th and 21st century sale took over five hours and spanned Boudin to Banksy

Christie’s is to offer the never-exhibited painting in a New York auction in May

The works, by artists such as Warhol, Richter and Giacometti, will be sold in New York in May

Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month

Proceeds from the auctions, at Deutscher and Hackett and Leonard Joel, have been earmarked for climate change programme, but questions arise over bank's motivations

Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m

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