Sotheby's

The latest Modern and Contemporary art auctions in London raised a combined £97.8m. This compared to £132.3m from the equivalent series last year.

The first oil painting ever exhibited by JMW Turner (1775-1851) in his lifetime will be offered at Sotheby’s this summer.

Sotheby’s is to offer over 100 important Napoleon items from the Pierre-Jean Chalençon collection in Paris on June 25.

It was billed as the ‘first ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction’ but the auction of the Saunders collection at Sotheby’s New York last night came in significantly below expectations.

Christie’s has announced a major highlight for its Old Masters evening sale in London on July 1.

Sotheby’s offered a collection of 30 Fabergé animals from the Castle Howard estate in a timed online sale ending May 16.

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.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Sandro Botticelli valued at £10.2m.

Following opposition from the Indian state, Sotheby's took the 11th hour decision to cancel a Hong Kong auction of a collection of relics linked to the historical Buddha.

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.

Sotheby’s Hong Kong Asian Art Week is led by one of the great imperial Qianlong period paintings in private hands – The Blue Goats by the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione and the Chinese court artist Jin Tingbiao.

Hong Kong auctioneer CC Wang conducted Sotheby’s ‘longest ever bidding battle’ when a calligraphy handscroll by a Yuan dynasty master took over 200 bids and 97 minutes to sell.

Sotheby's is staging a single-lot auction next month, offering copies of all four Shakespeare Folios.

The oldest known medieval Jewish artefact, a Kiddush cup from the 11th or 12th century, is being offered at Sotheby’s later this year.

Three E.T. models were used in the 1982 science fiction classic – one of them will appear at Sotheby’s in New York with a $600,000-900,000 estimate

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.

Sotheby’s is to offer a collection of 30 Fabergé animals from the Castle Howard estate on May 6 as part of its Fabergé, Gold Boxes & Vertu auction in Geneva.

A major consignment of Old Masters is coming up at Sotheby’s New York in May which the saleroom said is poised to break the record for any single-owner sale in this category.