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

Collector Frances Scaife is selling 14 dog portraits by English and American artists at Hindman auction house in Chicago

Closed borders have impacted the selection of offerings this season, specialists say

Plus, how long left of the good times in the New York auction world? And abstract Black figuration

At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display

Warranties of authenticity offered to buyers can be hard to enforce when auctioneers can fall back on the “generally accepted opinion of scholars and experts”

Coming up at Christie’s and estimated at around $4m, the sketch given to neighbours who doused the fire and saved the Van Gogh family home and collection in 1941

White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) (1963) will be offered at Sotheby's in New York next month

The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998

The £7.8m work will remain on public display in Salford thanks to a charitable donation

Works from tech giant co-founder Paul Allen's estate go on sale at Christie's New York next month

The orchard blossom scene, from the collection of Microsoft founder Paul Allen, is being sold by Christie’s

Collectors at Frieze London are also investing with White Cube finding buyers for seven works on paper and Xavier Hufkens selarling a large-scale painting in the region of £950,000

A confluence of factors has given the UK art market a lift—but will it last?

As auction sales soar, 14 galleries are showing at this year’s contemporary African art fair for the first time

Proceeds of the sale at Christie's will benefit the reproductive justice organisations

Two of the star lots have been consigned by the Greek Cypriot industrialist and collector Dakis Joannou

Plus, a collection of meteorites, a Belle Époque fob watch and a nude by Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita