The small 23-lot contemporary art auction last night realised a total of £37.5m

The sale's most valuable lot, a water lily painting by Claude Monet, is expected to sell in the region of $60m

Auction house says it has ‘never presented a work of this kind in its 280-year history’

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A document sent to investors, and seen by the newspaper, ahead of investment from Abu Dhabi’s wealth fund also reveals a 25% drop in auction sales

Increasingly unsettled elites are making a struggling market even less predictable

Patrick Drahi will remain auction house's majority shareholder in $1bn deal, as ADQ buys shares to "reduce leverage" and support "growth and innovation"

The 24,000 sq. ft location in the city’s Landmark Chater building will host exhibitions as well as a concept store—currently featuring Banksy’s famed shredded Girl with a Balloon

This is the most valuable fossil to ever sell at auction, as the market for dinosaur bones continues to climb

Slim auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's saw a rediscovered Quentin Metsys and a modestly priced Botticelli come to the block

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

Elaine Holt has been appointed as the deputy chair of Sotheby's Asia, while six other specialists across locations have received title changes

Bright spots in the heavily guaranteed auction included a £15m Basquiat and competition for the collection of Ralph I. Goldenberg

The new location at 83 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré will offer 30% more exhibition space

Conservation has revealed the extensive changes Rubens made to a work originally by Herri Met de Bles

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

The portraits painted by Bartholomäus Zeitblom carry an estimate of £400,000-£600,000

Auction house is in “consultation period” ahead of redundancies, sources say

The auction house's global chairman will leave at the end of the month

The large-scale investment vehicle raises major questions about who gets to decide where, how and to whom art circulates

The 114-year-old iron sculpture of a steam locomotive was stolen from the roof of a train station in 1983

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The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert'

Strong sell-through rate and multiple artist records offset soft demand for top lots

Sotheby’s will sell a rare Monet haystack five years after a similar work broke the artist’s record at auction

The four works, spanning nearly 40 years of the Abstract Expressionist’s career, will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in May

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

Destruction of final portrait by Graham Sutherland was captured in an episode of "The Crown". Now a study is being toured by Sotheby’s

A new musical about the glamorous Art Deco painter matches its subject’s maximalism

Punctured work is being offered at Sotheby’s New York after 20 years—and could fetch a record for the Italian post-war artist