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A new auction record for any antiquity has been set at Sotheby’s New York.

A skeleton of a Cretaceous predator known as a Nanotyrannus will be offered at auction with an estimate of $6m-9m at Sotheby’s New York on October 27.

Sotheby’s will offer JMW Turner’s (1775-1851) ‘Rome, from Mount Aventine’ in December, 12 years after the same picture set a £27m auction record in the same saleroom.

A collection of letters relating to Vice-Admiral Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805) and his family will be offered at Sotheby’s.

The government has issued a temporary export block on an early 16th century sculpture in the hope a UK museum will be able to raise the £4.6m needed to keep it in the country.

The latest updates from the world of art and antiques includes Rountree Tryon expanding in St James's and new hires at Rago/Wright, Freeman's and Sotheby's

One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered was hammered down at $43m (£32m) at Sotheby’s after a 10 minute bidding battle between seven bidders.

Christie’s has reported its best first-half results in five years while Sotheby’s posted its highest ever figures for the same period.

A remarkable bronze cast of one of the most revered ancient sculptures, Laocoön and His Sons, drew fierce bidding at Sotheby’s on July 1 and led the latest round of ‘Classic art’ sales in London.

On a sweltering night in the capital, a record was set for a single-owner sale in London as the Lewis collection raised an extraordinary £296.3m total at Sotheby’s.

One of Lucian Freud’s (1922-2011) most famous portraits will appear at Sotheby’s sale of the Lewis collection in June.

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.