Art market
Sotheby’s $306m The Now and Contemporary sales wrap up a mediocre New York auction season
Both sales persevered through a lukewarm atmosphere to break into the lower reaches of their estimate ranges
Phillips’s $154.6m New York double-header is both just good enough—and historically successful
The house’s two-part auction fell short of the low estimate but still became its second-best showing ever by dollar value
Brisk Sotheby's Modern evening sale in New York delivers moderate results
The auction, spanning Monet to Miró, made $190.3m—just above its low estimate—and was preceded by the record-breaking sale of a Ferrari car
Why Les Lalanne are in high demand
Buyers are flocking to nature-inspired works by the French artists François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne
Christie’s 20th century evening sale in New York defies fears of a jittery market
Swan song of veteran auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen made $640.8m—the house's highest total for a non-single-owner sale in six years
'An organic experiment': Art Collaboration Kyoto fair sees galleries share stands and forge friendships
The fair's third edition has doubled in size since last year
Late American broadcaster Barbara Walters’s collection nets $5m at Bonhams
All of the proceeds from Walters’s art collection—along with her jewellery and home décor—will go toward charitable causes, according to her estate
End of an era? Jussi Pylkkänen's departure reveals much about today’s art market
The star auctioneer is leaving Christie's after 38 years to share his experience "with a new generation of collectors"
Sotheby's sale of Emily Fisher Landau's collection brings modest result, despite $139m Picasso portrait
The evening's total take of $406.4m was a sign of a stability—albeit one under-girded by guarantees and third-party backing—in a jittery market
Christie's 21st century evening sale falls short of expectations, opening New York's autumn auction cycle on uneasy note
Several 'wet paint' works soared while multiple blue-chip lots underperformed, defying conventional market wisdom
Against the odds, mid-sized galleries expand into New York
Dealers Anat Ebgi and Candice Madey are growing even when many observers expect galleries in their tiers to stay cautious
How will New York’s auctions perform? London’s Frieze Week evening sales offer hints
Results from London’s premier autumn auctions suggest price now matters as much as prestige
'Where the museum and the market blend': third edition of Art Week Tokyo attempts a more holistic way to measure success
Some 50 galleries and institutions participated this year in the Art Basel-backed event
The legacy banking foundation buying up works at Artissima for Turin’s major museums
Fondazione Arte CRT’s new chief wants to bring art to the masses via public art programmes
Cimabue ‘kitchen’ painting placed under export ban ends up at the Louvre
The culture ministry had been given 30 months to raise the funds to purchase the work after its sale at auction in 2019 was halted
What makes a masterpiece? It depends who is selling…
Traditionally reserved for an artist’s greatest works, the term “masterpiece” now appears routinely in auction catalogues, and may just mean a work is good, novel—or expensive
A step backwards for women and an ‘increasingly thin’ top end: five key takeaways from the latest Art Basel/UBS collector survey
We speak to the report’s author, Clare McAndrew, about its findings
Christie’s to auction Pechstein painting after settlement reached with heir
Hilda Graetz sold 'Still Life With a Cup' to fund her new life in South Africa after her art dealer father died in a concentration camp
‘We can feel instability’: Italian dealers weigh up the market at Artissima in Turin
Sales were brisk at the VIP preview of the fair's 30th edition, but "jitters" can be felt against an uncertain geopolitical backdrop
Five superlative presentations to seek out at The ADAA Art Show
From the Most Monumental to the Best Re-appraisal, a quintet of standouts not to be missed at the Art Dealers Association of America's annual fair
Consumer culture art: Sylvie Fleury talks brands, cars and irreverent Minimalism
The Swiss artist is celebrating a 30-year career at Sprüth Magers in London
‘Accelerator’ Artissima marks its 30th anniversary
Italy’s leading contemporary art fair embraces its ‘start-up’ ethos
Scheme to sell fractions of Banksy’s Valentine’s Day Mascara could be illegal, lawyer says
Online company managing the Margate mural, intended as a comment on domestic abuse, has already sold more than £250,000 in shares
Can Taipei's art scene get better co-ordinated?
At the latest edition of Art Taipei fair, a concerted effort to galvanise the island's art scene like its regional neighbours could be felt
Prints and multiples may finally be ready for the market spotlight—it only took a few hundred years of confusion
The latest edition of the IFPDA Print Fair in New York and a slew of moves by mega-galleries look set to reshape this long-overlooked category
Dmitry Rybolovlev’s former attorney, France's justice minister Eric Dupont-Moretti, faces trial next month
The former defence attorney is accused of using his position to settle scores, including against a judge who investigated the Russian oligarch in Monaco.
Long-unseen Basquiat self-portrait could reach $60m at Sotheby’s New York
"Self Portrait as a Heel (Part Two)" (1982) hasn’t been displayed in public since its last appearance at auction, in 1999
Christie’s brokers restitution settlement with heirs of art dealer and Swiss museum to offer $35m Cézanne at auction next month
Fruits et pot de gingembre, one of three Cézanne paintings included in the sale, was found to have been sold under duress after the Nazis took power in Germany