Bidding was strong for red-chip artists, but the air is much thinner at the top of the market

Work from a private European collection fuels the market for the blue-chip artist

“Having that kind of cross-category [collaboration] between art and design helps to pull different types of buyers into the market,” says Eliza Ravelle-Chapuis, head of Sotheby’s East Hampton gallery

The French-Israeli billionaire is the majority shareholder in BT through his firm Altice

The Wurundjeri Corporation hopes to crowdfund $175,000 to secure the return of the pieces, which are being sold by the De Pury family at Sotheby’s New York

Plus, the Albers Foundation plans a Senegal space, and a golden Indian manuscript at the British Library

While both back-to-back sales did well, works by artists under 40 were snapped up at a rate not matched by their elders, making seven artist records

Despite a hefty number of lots, the sale flew by and was peppered with memorable moments, auction records and Oliver Barker’s tireless showmanship

Nearly 60% of the works in the auction house’s ‘The Now’ sale are by women artists, though they are still in the minority by value

Combined with the $676.1m take from the first sale in November 2021, the 65 works from the Macklowe collection brought in a staggering $922.2m

Auction house is banking on musician’s Black and White Paintings co-created with Ed Godrich

Artists and dealers have donated works to the online auction raising money for the International Rescue Committee in Ukraine

The recent London auctions suggested a market of extremes, with some seeking the safety of guarantees and others speculating on works by young stars on the rise

Spider IV will be offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong contemporary evening sale later this month

Femme nue couchée was shown in Tate blockbuster exhibition in 2018

The sale at Sotheby's New York in May will coincide with the delayed opening of the controversial exhibition Philip Guston Now in Boston

The London-headquartered The Fine Art Group and New York-based Schwartzman& are collaborating—but this is not a merger, they stress

A number of new appointments are announced today at the auction houses, with a different EMEA president for Christie's and new managing director in the Middle East at Sotheby's

The move comes as the art market steps up its due diligence

The French conceptual artist made nine "empty zones" in the last three years of his life, which could be purchased only with pure gold

The sales, popular with London-based Russians and regional collectors in Russia alike, had been scheduled for June

The 25-lot sale tomorrow includes works that reflect "how irrational, how ugly, and how challenging the modern world can be"

Back-to-back auctions, with works from Degas to Banksy, brought in a total of £221m

Sotheby’s will auction the surviving picture of the strolling couple on 2 March, estimated at £7m-£10m

Ex-staff are now considering legal action, claiming they were not kept informed of changes to the scheme

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco

The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate