Auction house chief Tad Smith points to positive progress, but firm is still operating at a loss

The auction house’s CEO Ed Dolman pins tepid results to “selective bidding” by collectors saving their money for the week’s auction gauntlet

Billionaire sells Blue Period La Gommeuse for $67m in upbeat Impressionist and Modern sale

Modigliani soars, but many pieces once owned by Alfred Taubman fall flat

Christie’s to sell Margaret Thatcher’s belongings after V&A turns them down

Market turns on its head as buyers show less interest in the usual contemporary, blue-chip names

Bonhams has big plans to break into the contemporary Asian art market—next year

Secret legacies, family feuds and the aristocratic rakes who couldn’t resist a bet

Most works, by emerging and established artists, are valued at less than $50,000

But a new edition of the auction house’s First Open series with emerging Chinese artists also did well

Italian fashion photographer Amedeo Turello has amassed 200 images over more than 20 years

Late 18th-century Vincenzo Chilone regatta scene once owned by John and Anna Jaffé is due to be sold at Christie’s

While female painters prove Georg Baselitz wrong in the contemporary sale

Buyers look to diversify their collections with paintings by post-war artists

Two prints of his zaftig muse Sue Tilley, a rare self-portrait, and a tender sketch of Eli the whippet given as a Christmas gift to his assistant were among the 30 works sold

Writing table, which once belonged to Baron Gustave de Rothschild, is a star lot at Christie’s

Appropriated selfie part of white-glove sale, which saw new record for Mark Bradford

La Gommeuse is being sold at Sotheby’s New York with a second, irreverent work on the reverse

The “Revolution” sale anchors five other auctions moved from the winter

Geng Jianyi says the recreation of his early painting Hairdressing 2 is not by him