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A fraudster who tried to sell stone sculptures with false provenance through Sotheby’s has been sentenced after a three-and-a-half year investigation by the Met Police’s Art and Antiques Unit.

The latest round of Modern and Contemporary art sales in New York showed the top-end of the market gaining momentum with a series of record prices for leading names in the sector.

A rare group of eight autograph letters by John Keats (1795-1821) to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that had been stolen in 1989 but later recovered are now heading to Sotheby's.

Two auction records were broken during the London spring series of Islamic and Indian art.

This summer Sotheby’s will offer what is billed as ‘the most valuable single collection ever offered in London’.

Asian Art Week at Sotheby’s Hong Kong will be led by the earliest extant court painting by the Italian Jesuit artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766).

The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought two 17th century Dutch still life paintings, one by Jan Davidsz de Heem (1606-84) and one by his slightly older predecessor Pieter Claesz (1597/98-1660).

In the world of chess, few names command as much quiet authority as Lothar Schmid.

Four ‘London school’ paintings from the collection of Tottenham Hotspur's former owner Joe Lewis were among the headline lots at Sotheby’s latest Modern & Contemporary art evening sale in London.

Auction house Sotheby’s has amended its buyer’s premium, raising its baseline rate to 28% for works selling for a hammer price of under £1.5m.

Following the last-minute withdrawal of arguably Sotheby’s headline lot of the latest round of Old Master sales in New York, it has been announced that the rare double-sided panel by Antonello da Messina (c.1430-79) has been acquired by the Italian Ministry of Culture.