Strong Asian bidding helped secure the success of the 58-lot two-part auction, which brought the house £147m

Two-part sale spanning Impressionism to the ultra-contemporary had few headline lots—but Brexit is not to blame, auction house specialists maintain

Turnover is increasing at a time of global turmoil—and it is mostly down to growing digital sales and new tastes among the 1%

A previous group of 11 works from Newhouse's collection brought in $216.2m across two Christie's sales in 2019

“Portrait of a Man as the God Mars” once broke the Old Master’s auction record and was on display at the Metropolitan Museum for several years

The Arkansas-based non-profit was founded by Walmart heiress Alice Walton

Coming up for auction on 28 February for £1m-£2m, the painting has been hidden in a private collection for 120 years

Work sets the world record for the most valuable original black and white drawing by illustrator Hergé

A cut of the sale’s proceeds will benefit the Intuit museum as it plans for expansion

The work, depicting a village scene, is being sold at Hôtel Drouot

Paintings by Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning among the 25 works to be sold in London

Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York

The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?

In stark comparison to recent staggering auction-house results, educators are struggling to maintain funding, says our columnist Melanie Gerlis

Christie's will offer Scillionian Beachscape alongside a late garden scene by Freud, both of which were once in the collection of renowned patron Simon Sainsbury

Paul Allen’s estate has pledged proceeds of its $1.6bn Christie’s sale to unnamed philanthropic causes, while FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried vaguely promised to give away his fortune

A representative for the reality television star and entrepreneur emerged victorious from a five-minute bidding war

Heirs of Jewish art critic forced to sell the work estimated at $15m now set to benefit from Sotheby’s auction

Plus, a pair of Thornton Dial assemblages, a rare Chinese bowl and a work made out of flip-flops and suede

A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work

My heart-stopping research saga to find out if Dorotheum’s part-painted cartoon by a "follower" was in fact a sleeper

Single-owner collections and millennials boost auction house’s revenues despite “challenging macro environment”

Fine art accounts for $5.7bn of that total, a 9.5% drop from 2021

New data shows there has been little real progress in fighting sexism and racism between 2008 and 2022

It comes to the block alongside another wooden sculpture by Heckel's contemporary Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris

Authorities are now taking legal steps to recover the work after it made €387,500 at Grisebach

Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio

Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna

Healthy bidding at Canadian auction house Heffel also achieved strong results for painter Lawren Harris