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Christie’s posted projected global sales of $6.2bn (£4.65bn) for 2025 while Sotheby’s reported a figure of $7bn (£5.25bn).

A desk used by JRR Tolkien during the final revisions to the Lord of the Rings trilogy has sold at auction in London for £260,000 (£330,200 including 27% buyer’s premium).

A rare copy of one of Rembrandt’s greatest portrait etchings established a new saleroom high for an Old Master print.

Christie’s broke the 13-year-old auction record for a print by William Blake (1757-1827) at its Old Masters to Modern day sale on December 3.

A painting of a musician by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou (1613-75) led Christie’s latest Old Master evening sale in London.

One of only six privately owned Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs has sold for £19.5m at Christie’s in London. It was bought by dealer Wartski.

It is apparently not unusual for Christie’s to receive approaches from people claiming to have a work by a great Renaissance master.

A Paris court has delayed the sale of the earliest-known calculator.

A painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou (1613-75) that has been in a British private collection since the 19th century will lead Christie’s Old Master evening sale in London next month.

The J Paul Getty Museum has purchased a Hellenistic gold box-bezel ring, describing it as “one of the finest and best-preserved surviving examples of this ancient jewellery type”.

Capping a strong year for the Indian art market, Christie’s has set a new record for any classical Indian or Islamic painting at auction.

Christie’s reported a 20% year-on-year rise in the total for its evening sale of Modern British and Irish Art in London – the first auction in this category to take place under the firm’s updated rate of buyer’s premium.

Christie’s will offer one of only six privately owned Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs as part of its Classic Week of sales in London in December.

An important collection of prints and works on paper amassed by the German businessman Klaus Hegewisch (1919-2014) will appear at Christie’s in London next month.

Christie’s will offer works from the collection of Robert and Patricia Weis at its upcoming series of Modern and Contemporary art auctions in New York.

The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund have successfully raised £3.8m after a public appeal to save Barbara Hepworth’s 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red'.