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Sotheby’s is retreating on its pledge to scrap fees for purchasers at its online-only auctions.

The administrator of collapsed Australian auction house Mossgreen has been ordered to return thousands of lots after Federal Court ruled it did not have the right to charge clients fees to collect their own goods.

Australian art starred at Russell Crowe’s ‘divorce auction’, which took place with much fanfare and festivity at Sotheby’s Australia on Saturday.

Sotheby’s spring Hong Kong series included a trio of eight-figure Chinese imperial works of art.

When a piece of Hans Coper stoneware made an astonishing £305,000 hammer price from an online bid recently it posed a classic ‘state of the market’ question.

In a week that began with Defra's unveiling of a ban on the UK trade of ivory, including antique ivory but with narrow exemptions, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others.

This month Piasa is holding a second auction devoted to the colourful works of the Ukrainian-born artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1975).