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The difficulties at the top end of the Modern and Contemporary art market were very much in evidence at the latest flagship auction series in New York.

One of Canaletto’s ‘prime-period’ views of Venice which once hung in 10 Downing Street has emerged at Christie’s.

The National Gallery in London has acquired two Old Masters, one of which is a remarkable 16th-century altarpiece bought for £16.4m in a private treaty sale brokered by Sotheby’s.

The latest jobs moves and appointments across the world of art and antiques

Alexander Rotter has been appointed global president of Christie’s with immediate effect.

A folio from a rare 15th century Timurid manuscript will be offered at Christie’s in London on May 1.

Christie’s private sales department is holding a selling exhibition titled Siena and the Renaissance.

Flatware from a French silver dinner service made for George III was pre-empted by the Louvre Museum at auction in Paris last month.

Christie’s latest evening sale of Modern British and Irish Art raised a total of £11.3m including premium with all bar one of the 24 lots selling on the night.

An Egon Schiele (1890-1918) work on paper formerly owned by the Jewish cabaret performer Fritz Grünbaum was among the lots drawing competition at Christie’s latest evening sale in London.

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s.

“Hello Possums”. Bidders were greeted by Dame Edna Everage’s imitable phrase as Christie’s auctioneer Piers Boothman took to the rostrum to offer the extraordinary collection of the late Barry Humphries (1934-2023).