Art Market

The doors opened, and the money moved. That’s the short version of VIP Day One at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, and while the longer version is...

The 39th edition of TEFAF Maastricht has closed. Fifty thousand visitors over eight days, more than 450 museums represented, sustained sales...

    The VIP days of TEFAF Maastricht 2026 have done what the best editions of this fair always do reminded everyone that when the quality...

A large-scale oil study for John Constable’s The Cornfield, the largest known to exist, has been languishing in a small historical museum in...

The numbers are in for the 2026 Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, and for an art market that spent much of the last two years in a mood of...

Robert Mnuchin, a successful investment banker who found a second career as a dealer of Modern and postwar art, died in December at 91. He was not a...

Sotheby’s packed auction totalled £131m, setting a record for Leon Kossoff. The rooms were full. Properly full, not London-auction full, which...

Salvador Dalí’s largest known work, a sprawling stage set created in 1939 for the Surrealist ballet Bacchanale, is about to return to the market,...

Los Angeles, 2 March 2026: By the time the last shuttle pulled away from Santa Monica Airport on Sunday evening, most dealers stopped pretending to...

Sotheby’s reported consolidated sales of $7.1 billion, an 18% increase on 2024. The company achieved revenue of $1.4 billion, a 21% increase...

Sotheby’s has redrawn its fee structure, and other market leaders are expected to follow. The auction house has raised its buyer’s...

Heavyweight paintings by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff drawn from the formidable Lewis Collection will headline Sotheby’s...