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Proceeds from the pieces sold at Sotheby’s Paris in February will go towards the artist duo's estate
The two rivals have made record online and private sales as pandemic overturns traditional live auction format
Almost half of the auction's total sales value was bought by Asian buyers, but 12 lots sold below their estimates
Sales of paintings by Cézanne and Picasso worth a combined $139m are also under scrutiny by the US Virgin Island attorney general
Sheltering from a rainstorm at the mill, Vincent and his brother Theo made a teenage pact
London Court of Appeal upholds the auction house's defence in forgery case, rejecting appeal by investment company Fairlight Art Ventures
In latest hearing of ongoing legal saga, Fairlight Art Ventures, co-vendor of painting sold in 2011 for $10.75m, is refusing to pay auction house more than $5.3m
Auction house "vigorously refutes the unfounded allegations" made by the attorney general, who claims the auction house knowingly aided the offshore company Porsal Equities
A dwindling middle market faces a stingy Senate while rising inequality and public unrest could prompt even more private sales
Lehmann Maupin and Paula Cooper are the latest to join dealers like Acquavella and Pace in setting up seasonal spaces in the Sunshine State
Plus, JMW Turner at the Tate and John Stezaker on Bruegel
Following weeks of controversy, the Baltimore Museum of Art withdrew two paintings just hours before the auction while many other works sold near low estimates
Last-gasp decision after talks with the US museum directors association comes just before a Sotheby’s auction
As works head to market, organisation reminds members that its relaxed rules were not adopted to “incentivise” art sales
Criticism in Israel reached an apex when President Rivlin called for the state to prevent the London auctions
Two artists also step down as board trustees amid turmoil over plans to deaccession three paintings
“The greatness of the BMA’s collection does not live within three individual paintings,” she says as the sale of a Warhol, Still and Marden approaches
As part of the deal, Roland and Jane Cowan acquired the faux Impressionist canvas from the artist—it sold last night at Sotheby's
Last sold at auction for $4.9m, offers on the work will be reviewed ahead of the auction house's contemporary and Impressionist and Modern art evening sales on 28 October in New York
Letter asks Maryland attorney general and secretary of state to investigate planned deaccessioning of a Warhol, Still and Marden
Chequered past: from the Bear Skin to the Nazis, a once-restituted painting is now coming up for auction
After netting $4.2m for a Cranach, the museum plans to sell off works by Monet, Dubuffet, Degas, Miró and Matisse
The work carries an estimate of $2.5m to $3.5m and will help the museum cope with its financial struggles amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Hong Kong police have arrested three men in relation to a $645m heist that included calligraphy by the Communist leader and other revolutionary art and ephemera
The $29.2m painting sold at Sotheby's last night in a live-streamed contemporary art sale that took place in Hong Kong as Christie's held its marquee sale in New York
The collector and gallerist explains why he moved his central Hong Kong gallery and is parting ways with some of his favourite works at Sotheby's this week
Acting on relaxed rules, it will use the funds for collection care and salary increases as well as diverse acquisitions
With a high estimate of $350,000, the sale of "Trinity Birth Quilt" at Sotheby's Choice Works charity auction event could reset the artist's auction record
Glut of collections have come to auction this month, with strong results for lesser-known Indian Modernists broadening a narrow market
The painting, to be offered at Sotheby's New York in January, is estimated to sell for 100 times more than the owner paid for it in 1982