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Signed presidential and other politically significant documents and letters brought high bids at a Heritage (15/20/15% buyer’s premium) sale, but more costly than those lots was this photograph of Marilyn Monroe.

A group of eight Andy Warhol (1928-87) prints came to auction at Van Ham (32% buyer’s premium including VAT) in Cologne at the end of last year, including a few of his most famous subjects from documented editions of the 1960-80s.

Final appeal court decision is now imminent in copyright conundrum

The term ‘pop art’ normally conjures up images of colourful and ‘hip’ artworks from the 1950s-60s.

Key artists in the American pop art movement such as Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1929- 87) make big ticket prices.

Among the graphic works on offer in Thomaston Place’s Winter Enchantment sale in Maine on February 24-26 are these two prints by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Annual auction house results show strong performances boosted by single-owner collections in particular

This 19th century French gold, enamel and gemset locket measures an impressive 5½in (13cm) across.

The Camille Claudel Museum has unveiled its newly purchased Volubilis sculpture by Alfred Boucher.

US auction house Hindman has promoted Alyssa D Quinlan to the role of chief executive officer.

The BRAFA fair this year – and several of its exhibitors – has adopted the city’s theme for 2023

Demonstrating how the internet has transformed the market for potential sleepers, three portraits that drew strong interest recently at different auctions in the UK and Europe all sold to online buyers.

Ever since the record-breaking $400m sale of Salvator Mundi at Christie’s back in 2017, the market seems to have become fascinated with other treatments of the subject.

Easter Rising republic proclamation and Wolfe Tone’s revolutionary tract are sold on home turf.

This monumental and documentary Staffordshire blue and white transfer printed jug sold for $4800 (£4000) as part of Bonhams Skinner’s sale of British pottery and porcelain that ran online from Marlborough, Massachusetts, in the last days of 2022.

The Star Wars collecting world has been rocked by the discovery of a cache of original action figures still packed in original Kenner factory shipping boxes.

A museum in the Netherlands has bought a Dutch Golden Age portrait from dealer Johnny Van Haeften.

News of a busy month in New York including major fairs and a bigger auctions schedule

Edward and Marilyn Flower embraced a huge variety of collecting enthusiasms.