Christie’s is to offer the never-exhibited painting in a New York auction in May

Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions

Results are the highest since 2015 and come in just behind Sotheby’s $7.3bn. Hong Kong expansion plan will continue despite Beijing crackdown, as auction house "separates what is political and what is business"

The Los Angeles museum’s first Caillebotte fills a major gap in its telling of the history of Impressionism

For the artist who failed to sell during his lifetime, there is now a surge in the market for Vincent’s late paintings

Last night's single-owner sale of the late Texan oilman's vaunted collection brought in a massive $332m

Only five of the 59 lots went unsold in the auction last night

All lots sold and records were set for ten artists, including Peter Doig, Stanley Whitney, Xinyi Cheng and Nicolas Party at last night's confidence-boosting 21st-century evening auction

Some artefacts in Christie’s Pre-Columbian Art & Taino Masterworks sale on 10 November in Paris are estimated to sell for up to £250,000

The oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, has never appeared at auction before and is expected for sell for between £2m to £3m this December in London

Will the wave of young Asians buying hot young artists also wash into the higher-priced, blue-chip artists on offer in New York, or has older art lost its charm?

The first NFT to be sold at auction in Europe sells for £800,000, while collectors compete for emerging women artists, leaving more established names on the shelf

The auction house—which estimates the painting at $30m—helped broker a deal between the seller and the descendants of two Jewish families who had it in the Nazi era

The 1982 portrait, made using Warhol's own urine, will be offered in New York in November, with an estimate in excess of $20m

The work features a 1:10 loop of a business-class white man standing on an auction block

Descendants of François Marcille will sell 27 paintings and drawings from his collection in Paris this November, including Woman Drawing Water from a Water Urn

The collection is expected to make over $200m in New York in November

Auction house will move into Zaha Hadid-designed luxury tower The Henderson in 2024, where it will hold year-round sales and exhibitions

The auction house has teamed with up Gallery Climate Coalition to raise between $5m-$10m for ClientEarth

Auction sales, according to the analysts ArtTactic, are up 230% to a total of $5.9bn so far this year at the three major auction houses, Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips

The Ionides Scarab sold for $250,000 in April—but it may not have been the auction house’s, nor the consigner’s, right to sell the object in the US

Seven new artist records were set in tonight's auction, including for Georges de La Tour, while a second highest prices were set for female painters Angelica Kauffman and Artemisia Gentileschi

The tiny "Post It note" drawing was sold by Thomas Kaplan, owner of the Leiden collection of Rembrandts, who bought it in 2008 based on a fax

Our pick of the best objects up for sale in London and New York

Galleries and auction houses continue to set up shop with niche exhibitions where their clients spend their vacations

A museum sells art to balance its budget, a gorgeous Sargent goes unwanted, and a painting of a giraffe reaches high.

The sale was led by a classic 1932 Picasso of Marie-Thérèse at $103.4m and set new records for Alice Neel, Grace Hartigan, Barbara Hepworth and Alighiero Boetti

Plus, Heather Phillipson at Tate Britain and Ackroyd and Harvey on Joseph Beuys

Christie's and Sotheby's are starting to embrace what the social media platform has to offer

Monet asked how the artist who made this exuberant masterpiece could possibly be unhappy—and a century later it became the most expensive work at auction