Questions resurface over New York museum’s rationale for consigning works by the artist to auction

More than 1,500 lots, including original lyrics and Victorian paintings, from the rockstar’s London home will be sold in September by former girlfriend and close friend Mary Austin

The painting is estimated to sell for around $45m next month at Sotheby's

The ten-foot-tall metal arachnid is being sold by a Brazilian foundation and could reset several auction records

'El Gran Espectaculo (The Nile)' and 'Now’s the Time' are estimated to sell for $45m at Christie’s and $30m at Sotheby’s, respectively

Plus, dramatic scenes from the Iliad and a delicate Modigliani head

And a surprise: Vincent’s brother Theo helped sell two paintings by the Delft master

Four works recently returned to heirs of the influential French dealer Ambroise Vollard will go under the hammer in New York next month

Results from the recent auction season, where young, “red-chip” artists surpassed expectations, while big names of Modern art went unsold, point to a shift in how collectors think

The Mo Ostin sale at Sotheby's will feature works by Magritte and Twombly

Shortening art market cycles and the politics around "flipping" artworks are leading collectors to conduct business away from public scrutiny

"Interior. The Music Room, Strandgade 30", expected to sell for between $3m and $5m, was painted in the artist's most productive period

Auction house faced online backlash over male-dominated digital art sale

Lawsuit is one of the first in the US to examine how blockchain technology affects the ownership of digital art

Report also highlights how Asian, Millennial and Gen X buyers are changing the demographic of the market

The legendary civil rights activist and musician was born in the North Carolina house and spent the first years of here life there

Surrealist work is estimated to make €2m at Sotheby's

New York judge rules the auction house must face trial as part of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev’s art fraud lawsuit

The family behind Pier 24 Photography, which will close in 2025, is sending much of its enormous collection to auction, though the Maryland-based Glenstone Museum has already snapped up 112 choice pieces

Plus, a painting by an overlooked Surrealist woman artist, and a postcard by M.F. Husain, made for a friend over tea and kebabs

Strong Asian bidding helped secure the success of the 58-lot two-part auction, which brought the house £147m

“Portrait of a Man as the God Mars” once broke the Old Master’s auction record and was on display at the Metropolitan Museum for several years

The sale at Sotheby’s Paris will include seven works by the artist with Portrait of Zoé Elmore carrying the highest estimate of €1.2m

The painting, which was the subject of a decade-long provenance dispute, will go up for sale at Sotheby’s London in March

Work by Italian artist Bernardo Cavallino was acquired at Sotheby's New York

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