Artcurial, the first auction house to reopen, doubled its sale estimate as lockdown seems to have "sharpened" buyers' appetite

The co-founder of Art Agency, Partners will transition to a consultant role as Nina del Rio takes the helm of the auction house's advisory services

Chief executive Charles Stewart lays plans for the auction house’s flagship sales to be held in New York next month

Featuring galleries like Petzel, Lehmann Maupin and Jack Shainman, the buy-now marketplace transacts sales through the auction house at publicly listed prices

Christie's is also making salary cuts and has furloughed between 300-400 staff as lockdown closes auction houses and forces sales online

Move is in line with Christie's and Phillips which postponed their sales to late June, but Sotheby's is yet to announce when its auctions will actually happen

One of the most dynamic figures in the international expansion of Sotheby's in the 1960s and 1970s, descended from generations of collectors and men of action

As the Donald B. Marron collection goes to three dealers, the auction house is rethinking how it pitches for works

The work comes from the collection of the Norweigan shipping heir Hans Rasmus Astrup and is the second major coup for the auction house’s spring sales season

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The firm is also rolling its London June sales into one week for the first time in more than a decade

Auction house fields a steady contemporary evening sale in London

Our pick of highlights from the next fortnight's fairs and auctions

“No fireworks” at last night's Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art auction that featured three restituted works

Our pick of highlights from this week's fairs and auctions around the world

He chronicled the African American experience when white male abstraction ruled. Now record prices for his work are frequently reset

Christie's also holds its own at an auction of American furniture and folk art

Involvement from galleries and auction houses is on the rise as public institutions face dwindling government funds and increased scrutiny over toxic philanthropy

Two paintings by Signac and one by Pissarro are expected to fetch as much as £20m

Unseen for 25 years, they all come from a very private American collector

Supported by transformational new technology, the sector is ditching its traditional business model in favour of the luxury goods market

Pastoral landscape sold at Sotheby’s was once owned by Royal Holloway college

We look back at the biggest art sales of the year, which reveal a concentration on New York over London and a continued dominance of 20th century male artists

Sotheby’s sale is set to raise half a million pounds, offsetting money lost in Inigo Philbrick deals

While her role grows to cover departments such as Old Masters, second global division will include luxury objects and decorative art, jewellery and wine

A London-based investment company must repay more than $5.3m to the auction house, which refunded an American client for work

We look back at the stories that have overturned the art world order this year

December auction generates less than half the total of last year's sale, with several lots failing to sell