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Bringing international interest to a Dorset auction, a limited edition Pierre Soulages (b.1919) print generated a strong bidding contest

With the ivory versions now heavily restricted, a New York auction provided a test of the current market

London Art Week (LAW), which has announced dates for its summer edition, is welcoming dealers from cancelled summer events and plans to expand.

At least five leading auction houses posted their best-ever annual figures in France for 2022, while others boasted exceptional sales during the year.

Anti-slavery objects are enjoying a particularly strong moment in the market.

Three former Chiswick Auctions’ picture specialists have joined west London saleroom Olympia Auctions.

A spectacular Roman gold medallion took a record price at the latest New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC).

A drawing of Toussaint Louverture (c.1743-1803), a leader of the Haitian Revolution, has sold from London’s Nonesuch Gallery to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

A record for Peranakan or Straits Settlement porcelain was set at an auction in Singapore when a Guangxu kamcheng took Sin$74,000 (£46,000).

Copies of the 1615 reprint of the Geneva or ‘Breeches’ Bible are not too scarce.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including Dallas Museum of Art buying an Italian Baroque picture from Colnaghi.

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.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

Works by Mr Brainwash (b.1966) are becoming an increasingly common sight at auction.