Auction purchases by Arab cultural entities overcome early uncertainties of Israel-Hamas war

Middling performance of such auctions throughout 2023, with high costs and some sales coming in below their estimates, made a “sure thing” look less so

Fifty years later, history suggests the infamous sale from the collection of Robert and Ethel Scull is not quite the art market precedent it is remembered as

The painting could more than double the Spanish Old Master's auction record when it hits the block at Sotheby's

Plus, a small biblical scene by Rembrandt and a Hever Roman marble

The auction house, Grisebach, says the sketchbook’s candidacy for the list will not affect plans for today’s sale

The two-part auction, coinciding with the centenary of Riopelle's birth, took in $17.2m in total

Sotheby’s is selling an alabaster piece while Bonhams’ early carving is made from ironstone

Plus, experimental art from the Eastern Bloc and a sculptural installation by Terry Adkins

Two activists affiliiated with the group Extinction Rebellion took to the rostrum during a sale of works on paper

The house’s two-part auction fell short of the low estimate but still became its second-best showing ever by dollar value

The auction, spanning Monet to Miró, made $190.3m—just above its low estimate—and was preceded by the record-breaking sale of a Ferrari car

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