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Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, Jørn Utzon Collection, 9-11 June
Doyle, New York, Belle Epoque: 19th- and 20th-century Decorative Arts, 3 June
Almost $2.5bn was spent on art in just six evening auctions last month, as the market is pushed to new levels for trophy works
And what can be done in the face of the country’s crippling political and economic crisis
Sotheby’s to auction looted painting by Liebermann that was returned to heirs last week
Sale of more than 2,000 works from Helge Achenbach's company expected to fetch between €3m and €4.5m
New fair—plus auctions and gallery shows—champion the reproducible image this week
Paddle8 moves to new premises in Mayfair
Most works at Christie’s auction on Wednesday were guaranteed to sell including Lucian Freud's reclining nude, which fetched an ample price
Sotheby’s totalled $379.7m for its contemporary art auction on Tuesday evening, while Christie's raised $705.9m the night before
Questions remain over authorship of panel that could be by Duccio
Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger is priciest work ever sold at auction, fetching almost $180m in New York <br>
The auction house took a chance sticking to a schedule that clashed with the Venice Biennale’s opening—and it paid off
Sotheby’s to auction the contents of West Horsley Place, including a study for Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June
Lempertz, Berlin, Berlin Sale, 2 May
Sotheby’s has launched its third model, back in tandem with eBay, while its numerous competitors are trying many different methods to grow internet sales
Leslie Hindman, Chicago, Property from the Collection of Carol and Richard Levin, 20 May
New law would dilute powers of the “commissaires-priseurs” system and give responsibility to non-experts
But buyers are not risking large sums, with the majority of works still priced below £10,000
The journal that Alan Turing used to jot down his thoughts on a universal language was later turned into a dream diary by one of his student
Liu Yiqian bought a Song Dynasty <i>guan</i> vase for $14.7m at Sotheby’s Hong Kong this week
