Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer will offer a selection of works from the estate of Florence and Antoine Poncet

The Swiss company will now be called Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, with the three Swiss founders remaining as partners

Plus, dramatic scenes from the Iliad and a delicate Modigliani head

A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work

Plus, a bovine Lalanne sculpture and a pair of Chinese vases

The Louvre has two-and-a-half years to buy the record-breaking €24m painting

The New York dealer Adam Williams bought the fruity still-life

Our pick of highlights from forthcoming auctions and fairs

Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions

Penitent Magdalene by Salaì, who entered Leonardo's workshop at the age of ten, was estimated at €100,000 to €150,000 and is one of only a handful of known works by the artist

The works are from the estate of the artist’s teenage “muse and model” Frédérique Tison, who was also his step-niece

Artcurial, the first auction house to reopen, doubled its sale estimate as lockdown seems to have "sharpened" buyers' appetite

The deputy chairman of the Paris-based auction house Artcurial was suffering from food poisoning

Our pick of highlights from the next week's auctions and fairs

Te Bourao II, which went to an international collector, was on loan to the Met in New York for ten years

Work depicting Roman heroine Lucretia was in a private collection for 40 years

Te Bourao II (The Purao Tree), which has been in the same collection since 1995, is estimated to sell for €5m-€7m at Artcurial

Our pick of this month's most interesting auctions