The portrait of David Webster will return immediately to the opera house before going to the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 for its reopening exhibition

Plus, JMW Turner at the Tate and John Stezaker on Bruegel

GANksy aims to produce images that bear resemblance to works by the UK's most famous street artist

The auction house's four-part £90.2m "20th Century: London to Paris" sale saw small bursts of energy for quality lots in the wake of Frieze and Fiac's cancellations

Online auction of art and antiques that would have been exhibited at Parisian fair achieves €1.5m with 21 of 91 lots sold

Three works are to be sold at Christie’s in Paris this month; further sales to follow

Unusual $32m Jurassic-era offering stole the high-tech livestreamed show in New York, but buyers kept bids cautious elsewhere

Glut of collections have come to auction this month, with strong results for lesser-known Indian Modernists broadening a narrow market

The institution is deaccessioning its only Cranach and 11 other works to finance care of its collection

French expert Marc Restellini claims substantial modifications to Italian painter's 1915 portrait of Beatrice Hastings were not mentioned by Christie's when the picture was sold—twice

With no Frieze Art Fair, contemporary art London sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips will now take place at the end of October, when Fiac is due to open in Paris

Destinee Ross-Sutton has co-organised the online selling show Say It Loud which features works by 22 artists including Nelson Makamo and Yoyo Lander

16th century Italian marble attributed to Antonio Lombardo steals the show, but auction house's digital face is showing its age against stiff competition

Despite pandemic delays and the new National Security Law, the spring sales in the city last week fetched solid results

The MV Merino had gone aground on its way to Hobart for an exhibition of Modern French art in 1953

The four-hour event was intended to illustrate the auction house's global and democratic nature, but it also showed that less is often more

The industry remains subtly discriminatory and must abandon some obsolete ways if it is to truly change for the better

Academics challenge the provenance of the Edo plaque as well as two Igbo alusi figures that sold under estimate for €212,500

New 20th and 21st Centuries department will be led by Alex Rotter and Giovanna Bertazzoni

Artcurial, the first auction house to reopen, doubled its sale estimate as lockdown seems to have "sharpened" buyers' appetite

Hybrid sale of 20th century art and design will take place over four live-streamed sessions in Hong Kong, Paris, London and New York

Collaboration, dubbed 2020+, will take place in late September: Christie's says it is not a reaction to easing of coronavirus lockdown in Chinese city

Manhattan prosecutors say the auction house failed to collect sales tax on $189m in private sales over five years

Expanded 20th-century art week in US will swallow up London auctions; Sotheby's has yet to make a decision about its New York spring sales

Auction house has closed New York saleroom along with other offices—Sotheby's follows suit while Phillips has postponed all events and sales until mid-May

Our pick of highlights from this week's auctions and fairs

Brexit casts a shadow over consignments in London, but young American female painters add some pizazz

Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction last night made £106.8m, 35% down on last year—but with three works sold for over £10m