Art Market

    Both Christie's and Sotheby's have reported substantial increases in their first-half 2026 figures, with public auction sales up...

    A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton measuring nearly 40 feet long and standing over 12 feet tall has sold at Sotheby's for $50.1 million with...

  The Lines of Vision auction at Christie's in London, held to mark the twentieth anniversary of Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, totalled $3.32...

  Scene in Braemar by Queen Victoria's favourite artist, Sir Edwin Landseer, has sold for five times the previous record for one of his works....

  It has been sitting in a family estate for more than 60 years, unseen, and is now set to come to auction. Kees van Dongen's portrait of...

  Update: 'Let The Little Children Come Unto Me' by Rembrandt sold for $10.59m at Sotheby's.  A work by Rembrandt, which had a guarantee, was...

  Sotheby's London staged one of the most significant auction evenings in the city's recent history on 24 June, when 25 works from the...

The Fair: Art Basel closed its 2026 edition in Basel on 21 June, completing a run that began with Preview Days on 16 and 17 June and opened to the...

  Markets rarely move independently of the societies that sustain them. The global art market is no exception. It reflects wealth, confidence,...

Sotheby's London has added a significant late entry to its forthcoming sale of works from Joe Lewis's collection. Nu assis au collier (Seated Nude...

Marc Glimcher, CEO and son of the founder of Pace, said, "The gallery model is broken; the current commercial art world has become too big, too...

Lucian Freud's final and most ambitious portrait of Sue Tilley (AKA' the benefits supervisor'), completed in 1995 after nine months of sittings in...