Auctions
Christie's aims to raise $1m for Ukraine in string of benefit sales
In April and May, the auction house will sell works to support the World Monuments Fund, Médecins Sans Frontières and CORE, the relief organisation founded by Sean Penn
Christie’s uses hologram technology to take a $20m Degas sculpture on tour
The hologram, produced by the Los Angeles-based company Proto, is currently on view at Christie’s San Francisco and will next be transported via the cloud to Hong Kong
With a $20m estimate, this Louise Bourgeois spider is the most expensive sculpture offered at auction in Asia
Spider IV will be offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong contemporary evening sale later this month
Three accused in New Zealand art auction political donations scandal
Claims centre on five paintings bought by Chinese businessman Yikun Zhang for a combined $60,000 in a charity sale held by the country’s Labour Party in 2017
Picasso’s muse as sea creature—will it break $100m at Sotheby's New York sale?
Femme nue couchée was shown in Tate blockbuster exhibition in 2018
Rodin's The Thinker to sell for up to €14m
Christie's Paris will offer the posthumous cast of the famous bronze at auction in June
A surfeit of riches: a good time to sell art, despite the war?
From the $200m Warhol Marilyn at Christie's to the second part of the Macklowe sale at Sotheby’s, the May auctions in New York will be bigger than ever—against the odds
Newly attributed Michelangelo drawing expected to make €30m at Christie’s Paris next month
Formerly attributed to “the school of Michelangelo”, experts now say the nude sketch is by the master's own hand
Philip Guston painting could make $30m, potentially breaking the artist's auction record
The sale at Sotheby's New York in May will coincide with the delayed opening of the controversial exhibition Philip Guston Now in Boston
Has the art market recovered? A deep dive into the Art Basel/UBS report
Plus, an exhibition about wartime hideouts in Poland and Ukraine, and Mondrian’s final work Victory Boogie Woogie
A Van Gogh letter is coming up for auction: €250,000 for a single sheet of paper
Vincent writes philosophically about his mental illness, a year after mutilating his ear
Object lessons: from Richard Gere's portrait of Bob Dylan to Lucian Freud's drawing of a pony with which he had a tricky relationship
Our pick of the highlights from April's fairs and auctions
Louvre suspends sale of Chardin's record-breaking strawberries
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
Degas, Monet and Rothko among Texan philanthropist Anne Bass’s trove, expected to sell at Christie’s for $250m
Only two of the 12 works have been guaranteed, an oddity in the recent string of high-profile single-owner sales
Art Basel/UBS report: Global art market bounces back to above pre-pandemic levels—but recovery is uneven
Asian spending continues to grow, particularly at auction, while the UK’s market share shrinks to historic lows as Brexit woes linger
Two lots withdrawn from Christie’s antiquities sale after possible ties emerge to dealers known to traffic in illicit artefacts
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
Strawberry painting by Chardin makes €24m at Artcurial Paris, smashing the French artist's auction record
The New York dealer Adam Williams bought the fruity still-life
The original NFT? Sotheby's to offer a receipt for an invisible work by Yves Klein for €500,000
The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold
Bonhams continues acquisitions spree with purchase of Danish auction house Bruun Rasmussen
The firm bags a second Scandinavian auction house as sector consolidation continues
Shotgun the Warhol: Christie's to sell Shot Sage Blue Marilyn for $200m
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
A Canova statue—lost in an English garden for decades and bought for £5,200—will be sold at Christie's London for £8m
The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years
Major Surrealist paintings make auction debut at Sotheby's Paris, including Picabia's very modern muse
The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"
Picasso bronze deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum could bring $30m at Christie’s
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
Cornelia Parker and Anselm Kiefer donate works to raise money for £14.5m Warburg Institute redevelopment
Phillips will sell 16 works in aid of the London University institution tomorrow
Franz Marc's £42.6m Foxes leads Christie's marathon Shanghai-London auction of Modern and contemporary art
The sprawling 20th and 21st century sale took over five hours and spanned Boudin to Banksy
Revealed: Van Gogh landscape once owned by Yves Saint Laurent coming up for sale, valued at $45m
Christie’s is to offer the never-exhibited painting in a New York auction in May
Sotheby's unveils second $200m tranche of works from the Macklowe collection
The works, by artists such as Warhol, Richter and Giacometti, will be sold in New York in May
Rubens could become most expensive work of art ever sold in Poland
Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month
National Australia Bank to sell off its $7.2m contemporary art collection next week
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