The star auctioneer is leaving Christie's after 38 years to share his experience "with a new generation of collectors"

The evening's total take of $406.4m was a sign of a stability—albeit one under-girded by guarantees and third-party backing—in a jittery market

Several 'wet paint' works soared while multiple blue-chip lots underperformed, defying conventional market wisdom

Results from London’s premier autumn auctions suggest price now matters as much as prestige

Traditionally reserved for an artist’s greatest works, the term “masterpiece” now appears routinely in auction catalogues, and may just mean a work is good, novel—or expensive

Hilda Graetz sold 'Still Life With a Cup' to fund her new life in South Africa after her art dealer father died in a concentration camp

Three works will be going up for auction at Christie's New York—but with an unusual caveat

Despite a slew of records set for Western art in Asia, including new highest prices for Modigliani and Mark Bradford, the Hong Kong sale made below its low estimate

The work by the Ethiopian-American artist was sold by Sotheby's Hong Kong for $9.32m with fees

The Biblical scene was recently offered at auction for just €10,000

Videos of bidding battles for the Queen frontman's possessions resulted in the auction house doubling its TikTok followers in less than a week

The collection is led by Pablo Picasso’s Femme endormie (1934) which the auction house estimates will sell for between $25m and $35m

From the devastation of the Cultural Revolution to the transformation of the contemporary art scene

Plus, a first-century Roman cameo and a gilt bronze statue from Tibet

In sales spanning this year and next, hundreds of works that once belonged to the SFMoMA trustee will be offered, including a box in a suitcase by Duchamp

The privately-owned Mougins Museum of Classical Art closed in August for a revamp to rebrand as what has been described as Europe’s "first major museum dedicated to work by women artists"

Plus a painting by Hedda Sterne, one of the few women to make her mark in New York’s Abstract Expressionism movement

Bonhams is offering a Robert Colescott work in a single-lot sale, while Sotheby’s online fashion series includes Princess Diana’s famous black-sheep sweater

Paintings by Modigliani and Kusama among the 50 works to be offered in Hong Kong—with more potentially coming to the block in New York

The auction house is pursuing the primary market with the new digital platform, which will sell monthly "drops" of limited editions by artists such as Cj Hendry

The standalone sales come off the back of numerous high-profile projects involving the British artist

The auction house made £53.9m (with fees) from 38 lots, and saw a new record established for Fra Angelico

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