Christie's

Prizes were awarded for outstanding objects at the opening gala party for this year’s staging of Asian Art in London.

Christie’s latest evening sale of Modern British and Irish Art got off to a flying start.

The collection of London dealers Alan and Mary Hobart, who founded the Pyms Gallery in the 1970s, has been consigned to Christie’s.

The glut of auctions held during the week-long period of the ‘Frieze London’ and ‘Frieze Masters’ fairs generated an overall £184m including premium, roughly in line with the total from the equivalent sales last year.

Christie’s becomes the first international auction house to secure a presence in the Gulf state and appoints managing director in the kingdom.

Christie’s is to return to the classic car market following an agreement to acquire Gooding & Company.

A Cray-1 Supercomputer owned by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen set a new high for any computer sold at auction when it took $810,000 (£618,320) at Christie’s New York.

David Hockney's art school era features in an array of prints coming to auction at Christie's that offers masters of Impressionism and Pop Art principals.

A portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) and his workshop which has been in an American museum since the 1960s will be offered at Christie’s New York in January following an agreement between the institution and the heirs of a Jewish collector.