Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?

“I couldn’t believe the dynamism, the energy, the courage, the rawness of these works,” the actor and activist said

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

Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December

Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention

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

The epic evening saw strong results from a wide-ranging, two-part offering that spanned the 1880s to this year

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”

Record-breaking sales from the collections of Microsoft founder Paul G. Allen and the acrimoniously divorced Macklowes herald the start of a 20-year bonanza for auction houses

A $149.2m Seurat studio scene and $137.7m Cézanne landscape led the 60-lot, white glove sale

Plus, a bovine Lalanne sculpture and a pair of Chinese vases

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

A Japanese museum made a major purchase during an evening auction that also saw strong results for a diminutive dog portrait and enormous bird statues

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

Led by a £20.8m Hockney and £11.2m Richter, the white-glove sale saw competitive bidding across categories and records smashed for younger artists’ works

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

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

One of the highlights of Christie’s upcoming sale of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s collection, Steichen’s 1904 image is a symbol of photography’s transition into the world of fine art

After multiple art handlers complained online about low wages, misrepresentation and class tourism, traces of the collaboration with Highsnobiety all but disappeared and a senior executive issued a mea culpa

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

In our new series Reality Bites, we assess whether the art market's key players are addressing the urgent issues affecting the wider world

“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”

The inaugural sale on Christie's3.0 will consist of nine NFTs by the artist and activist Diana Sinclair

Crypto might have crashed, but online-only sales and other digital channels are allowing auction houses to deepen their business beyond the thin market for blue-chip art

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

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

Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels

The auction in November includes prized works from Paul Cezanne and Jasper Johns