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Frank Frazetta’s cover painting for a 1967 Lancer/Ace Conan paperback, a landmark of modern fantasy art commonly known as Man Ape, sold for a world record $13.5m (£9.99m) including the buyer’s premium at Heritage Auctions.

Trade bodies are warning that a proposed anti-money laundering bill in the US could adversely impact art and antiques dealers operating in the country.

After 60 years on Broadway, Hyde Park Antiques is closing its gallery and holding a stock clearance sale at Sotheby’s.

Is the US art market following the UK and EU down the path of AML regulation? Rena Neville, head of the art division at FCS Compliance, gives her expert view

Bonhams New York is staging The Jason Jacques Collection, the final sale of the art dealer and gallerist’s “extraordinary” collection.

‘By the power of Grayskull!’ was the cry in the Masters of the Universe TV cartoon series in the 1980s. Four decades on, that power has taken toy prices to an astonishing new high.

Peter Green’s lyrics for 'Man Of The World' sell at regional auction house

An old Instagram posting from a dealer in Virginia helped Joe Holahan confirm the backstory of a French fin de siècle bronze and marble fountain consigned at the eleventh hour to a garden statuary sale at Kamelot (25% buyer’s premium) in Philadelphia.

Only one other version of triangular-shaped timepiece sold in Florida has been found, says saleroom

An 1843 cast of Antoine-Louise Barye’s (1795-1875) celebrated bronze Theseus Battling the Minotaur has returned to the museum that displayed the work for the last 18 years.

New York fair 'Salon Art + Design' is making some tweaks behind the scenes as the brand expands.

The market for Tiffany’s Japonesque style demonstrated its strength at Heritage Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).

An unexpected assist from the Richard Strauss Institute helped Clarke Auction Gallery (25% buyer’s premium) to hammer down a musical manuscript page for $9500 (£6970) against a guide of $800-1200.

An 1858 portrait by Solomon Alexander Hart (1806-81), arguably the most important Jewish painter in England in the 19th century, more than doubled its high estimate in a sale in Clarence, New York.

A pair of wrought iron Arts & Crafts sunflower andirons were offered at Copake Auctions (20% buyer’s premium) in Copake, New York with an appealing guide of $150-250.

Three Arts & Crafts oak furnishings that Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) created for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, turned in strong performances at Toomey & Co (27% buyer’s premium) in Chicago, Illinois.

Two markedly different publications prompted contests from quite different groups of bidders at Millea Bros (25% buyer’s premium) in Boonton, New Jersey, the second day of a three-day auction at the house.