The British artist is among those who have donated millions of pounds’ worth of art to charities—perhaps we could all take a leaf out of her book?

The auction house’s first “The One” sale in New York included a mix of ancient artefacts and modern memorabilia organised into thematic sections

The auction house’s four-part auction extravaganza was a decidedly mixed bag, bringing a total of $74.5m across 124 lots

Don't be fooled by the higher-than-ever sale figures—the market is softening

A representative for the reality television star and entrepreneur emerged victorious from a five-minute bidding war

Heirs of Jewish art critic forced to sell the work estimated at $15m now set to benefit from Sotheby’s auction

Patti Wong & Associates will partner with London-based advisory The Fine Art Group to expand its global reach

Plus, a pair of Thornton Dial assemblages, a rare Chinese bowl and a work made out of flip-flops and suede

Despite headline figures of record sales, is the art world's bull market coming to an end?

Fine art accounts for $5.7bn of that total, a 9.5% drop from 2021

Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December

Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention

Ai Weiwei and Richard Serra have also given works to the auction taking place at Sotheby's Paris

The profits of the sale will go towards tiger conservation efforts in countries including Bangladesh and China

The firm’s contemporary and “The Now” evening auctions totalled a combined $314.9m and notched new best prices for Barbara Kruger, Betye Saar and Elizabeth Peyton

The auction house held a competitive, white-glove single-owner sale and a lacklustre modern art sale on Monday night

Billionaire businessman has amassed a treasure trove of more than 200 prime works of art, many bought through his auction house

White Disaster (White Car Crash 19 Times) (1963) will be offered at Sotheby's in New York next month

Ten works from the collection of Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson will be on offer during the Master’s Week sales in January

The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998

In our new series Reality Bites, we assess whether the art market's key players are addressing the urgent issues affecting the wider world

Star lots include one of Picasso’s earliest paintings of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter and a dynamic De Kooning

Francis Bacon triptych and Renoir still life among works from the collection of CBS founder William S. Paley that have been "under the museum's stewardship" since his death

For each work sold, 15% will go to a charity or institution of the artist’s choice—but will the new sales format ruffle dealers’ feathers?

Letitia James's office is seeking information on more than 50 collectors related to a 2020 lawsuit against the auction house

Plus, a Pre-Raphaelite treasure, an iconic James Bond poster and a set of nine intricately inlaid panels

Sotheby's will offer Chinese antiquities and Impressionist portraits amassed by the scion of one of Hong Kong's richest families

Long undervalued, especially at auction, her works are now appealing to a wider base of collectors and prices are set to rise accordingly

Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals