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Export bar placed on plush piece with asking price of more than £480,000
A growing number of women are appearing on the rostrum and taking senior auctioneer roles
Thomas Campbell posted an image of the Salvator Mundi before conservation, triggering a row with its former co-owner Robert Simon and Christie’s Loic Gouzer
BUM was created just before Boty died of cancer aged 28 in 1966
How the art sale of the century happened, with Judd Tully, our man in the salesroom. Plus, a new museum in Indonesia
Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
Price makes it the most expensive painting of all time
Painting is being presented by Christie’s as the “Holy Grail of Old Master paintings”
Pre-auction assessment offers evidence that painting is original Leonardo but also reveals problems posed by painting’s wooden panel
Salvator Mundi will break Old Master auction record as seller dispute rumbles on
Pent-up demand for top material kicks off New York's key auction week, with a $81.3m Van Gogh and records for Léger, Magritte, Man Ray and Vuillard
Discretionary sellers gain confidence in the market and Christie's leads its contemporary sale with Da Vinci—but recent overreaches sound a cautionary note
At HK$294.3m, the Ru ware piece set a record for a Chinese ceramic at Sotheby's during Hong Kong's busy autumn auction and fair series
Market’s appetite shows no signs of flagging for fresh works that are correctly priced
Christie’s moves October auction to London as rival plans first sale in the UAE
Collectrium is a digital multi-tool for art collection
While Sotheby's struggled with Little Electric Chair, Christie's had no such problems
The colour white proves particularly popular as Sotheby’s expert heralds “a new dawn for Italian art”
The works are being sold by Westdeutsche Spielbanken to raise funds for restructuring
In 2014 we noted that market speculation can offer rich rewards, but in the long term, it may do collectors more harm than good
The restitution of Cambodian statues by major museums and auction houses is an encouraging sign
Zhang Lan bought Little Electric Chair for $10.5m
Cambodian officials believe the last two looted works out of seven are in Denver Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art
The restitution of Cambodian statues by major museums and auction houses is an encouraging sign
A selection of objects with exceptional histories
Christie's finds itself caught up in the ongoing forgery scandal
A big week for Phillips, Sotheby's, and Christie's
