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Billionaire collector Ken Griffin buys Stegosaurus skeleton for record $45m at Sotheby’s
This is the most valuable fossil to ever sell at auction, as the market for dinosaur bones continues to climb
Muted Old Master evening sales in London provide relative bargains but no fireworks
Slim auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's saw a rediscovered Quentin Metsys and a modestly priced Botticelli come to the block
Jordaens painting to be sold after settlement with heirs of Jewish bank shareholders
The work, to be auctioned at Sotheby’s today, was one of more than 2,500 held as collateral and sold, shortly before the Nazi invasion, by the Dutch bank Lisser & Rosenkranz
Sotheby's shakes up senior level staff in Asia and Europe
Elaine Holt has been appointed as the deputy chair of Sotheby's Asia, while six other specialists across locations have received title changes
Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary sale in London nets a tepid £83.6m and prompts question—is the summer auction season over?
Bright spots in the heavily guaranteed auction included a £15m Basquiat and competition for the collection of Ralph I. Goldenberg
Sotheby’s Paris will relocate to new space in historic former gallery
The new location at 83 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré will offer 30% more exhibition space
From one hand to another: painting reworked by Rubens to be sold at Sotheby’s
Conservation has revealed the extensive changes Rubens made to a work originally by Herri Met de Bles
Sotheby's launches first fine art Sealed auction without reserve
Yayoi Kusama's "Phantom Polka Dots of Fate, Ordained by Heaven, Were the Greatest Gift Ever for Me" to be sold by Sealed Auctions and on view in Sotheby’s New Bond Street Galleries. Success of Sealed Auctions has led to an expansion into fine art
German medieval altarpiece wings that remained in one family for 500 years to be auctioned at Sotheby’s
The portraits painted by Bartholomäus Zeitblom carry an estimate of £400,000-£600,000
Sotheby’s to lay off dozens of employees in UK with further cuts planned in other locations
Auction house is in “consultation period” ahead of redundancies, sources say
Brooke Lampley leaves Sotheby’s to join Gagosian in latest high-profile auction departure
The auction house's global chairman will leave at the end of the month
The Gray Market: Why Sotheby’s $700m art-backed debt security is an acid test for the trade’s intentions
The large-scale investment vehicle raises major questions about who gets to decide where, how and to whom art circulates
Stolen, century-old train-shaped weathervane returned to authorities in Vermont
The 114-year-old iron sculpture of a steam locomotive was stolen from the roof of a train station in 1983
The Week in Art podcast | Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaking painting
Exploring Now You See Us, which celebrates the output of Vanessa Bell, Mary Beale and many more, plus conversations about Dia’s legacy and the ’visual linguist‘ Wong
Sotheby's makes $198.1m in consistently strong Modern evening sale in New York
The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert'
Sotheby's $227.9m double-header marks tentative start to New York spring auctions
Strong sell-through rate and multiple artist records offset soft demand for top lots
Haystack painting by Claude Monet could sell for more than $30m at Sotheby’s New York
Sotheby’s will sell a rare Monet haystack five years after a similar work broke the artist’s record at auction
Four Joan Mitchell paintings could collectively bring more than $50m during New York's spring auctions
The four works, spanning nearly 40 years of the Abstract Expressionist’s career, will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in May
Major Leonora Carrington painting poised to smash Surrealist’s auction record
The artist’s dazzling, Boschian composition “Les Distractions de Dagobert” is expected to fetch as much as $18m at Sotheby’s in New York next month
Study for Winston Churchill portrait that was famously burned is up for sale
Destruction of final portrait by Graham Sutherland was captured in an episode of "The Crown". Now a study is being toured by Sotheby’s
Tamara de Lempicka makes her Broadway entrance
A new musical about the glamorous Art Deco painter matches its subject’s maximalism
Dallas collectors Howard and Cindy Rachofsky to auction Lucio Fontana canvas for between $20m to $30m
Punctured work is being offered at Sotheby’s New York after 20 years—and could fetch a record for the Italian post-war artist
Sotheby’s new fee structure is a highwire act of risk and reward
Auction house’s bold changes that favour buyers could bolster profits—or they could backfire
Painting from Warhol and Basquiat’s notorious collaboration could fetch $18m at Sotheby’s this May
The monumental canvas is expected to reset the record price at auction for any work from the series
Will Rybolovlev’s courtroom loss be the art market’s gain?
Experts predict few operational changes after Sotheby’s wins fraud trial
Sotheby’s Modern and contemporary evening sale in London makes 40% less than last year
The auction house made £82m before fees and set records for Etel Adnan and Takako Yamaguchi
Cautious but calm art market awaits London’s March auctions
Expectations are measured as sector adapts to new economic landscape
California love: Dr Dre helps to kick off Frieze Week Los Angeles in style with star-studded charity auction
The hip hop legend worked with the record executive Jimmy Iovine and Sotheby’s to put on the event, which also featured performances by the producer Timbaland and the singer Andra Day
New York Old Master sales deliver tepid results at Christie's and Sotheby's
Scattered seven-figure highlights failed to make up for dozens of passed lots and multiple key withdrawals
Jury sides with Sotheby's in New York fraud trial against Rybolovlev
The billionaire had sought at least $190m in damages from Sotheby's related to deals with Yves Bouvier. Instead, he will get nothing