“Gordon always believed that any collection should involve both the eye and the ear, as did Ann. Yes, you may like how a painting looks, but what is it telling you? Hearing is as important as seeing”

Star lots include one of Picasso’s earliest paintings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and a dynamic De Kooning

Joint venture announced amid declining sales figures at Chinese auction house

Though most famous for his Impressionist portraits of women and scenes of Parisian café society, Édouard Manet’s portrait of Bob the dog hits all the right notes

Each of the houses in the growing consortium will keep its identity, but share the back end of the business

Francis Bacon triptych and Renoir still life among works from the collection of CBS founder William S. Paley that have been "under the museum's stewardship" since his death

The Players Foundation says the current financial crisis has forced it to reassess how it manages its assets and ensures its benevolent work is ongoing

The collaboration with Artory is the first in the history of the decorative arts

Works by Miro, Hockney and Glenna Goodacre are among those being sold to pay off creditors as couple face allegations of embezzlement

The work narrowly escaped being lost forever at the hands of a paint-happy homeowner who “didn’t think it was particularly interesting”

Hospital Rooms has worked with award-winning artists to commission works across UK hospitals

Despite what hyperbolic marketing might suggest, sales of 20th-century titans are failing to reach expected price points

Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals

Plus, a “crypto-jukebox”, a striking piece of Modern British silver and a sea battle by a Dutch Old Master

There were few fireworks in the three-part sale as the froth comes off the top of the market

The 21 lots come from the collection of the Chicagoans Laura and Gary Maurer, the preeminent collectors of Abercrombie works

Work from a private European collection fuels the market for the blue-chip artist

Plus, a contemporary woven Japanese basket and a colourful work on paper by Kirchner

With old codes now dispensed of, my hope is to lobby for new oversights that could enforce stricter and clearer rules

The houses say they will not change their practices, but the move could mean more opaque bidding and guarantees

After his record-shattering sale at Christies in May and the announcement of gallery representation, can Ernie Barnes hold on to the momentum?

Plus, the Albers Foundation plans a Senegal space, and a golden Indian manuscript at the British Library

This month’s New York auctions brought mixed results for museums that sold off works just as pandemic exemptions ended

Andrew Kreps Gallery and Ortuzar Projects have announced they will co-represent the artist’s estate

Artists and dealers have donated works to the online auction raising money for the International Rescue Committee in Ukraine

Plus, a rediscovered Titian and a reliquary sculpture from Gabon

But firms say they will continue to operate policies and practices that promote transparency

The Louvre has two-and-a-half years to buy the record-breaking €24m painting

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