The work features a 1:10 loop of a business-class white man standing on an auction block

Descendants of François Marcille will sell 27 paintings and drawings from his collection in Paris this November, including Woman Drawing Water from a Water Urn

Galleries and auction houses continue to set up shop with niche exhibitions where their clients spend their vacations

Monet asked how the artist who made this exuberant masterpiece could possibly be unhappy—and a century later it became the most expensive work at auction

The story of Le Pont de Trinquetaille—with the young female mudlark and the ruffians from the red-light district

With investors such as Elon Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya backing the purely digital art form, the trade is beginning to take notice

Expanded 20th-century art week in US will swallow up London auctions; Sotheby's has yet to make a decision about its New York spring sales

Auction house has closed New York saleroom along with other offices—Sotheby's follows suit while Phillips has postponed all events and sales until mid-May

Overall sales were down by around 30% but beyond the disappointing headline figures, women and minority artists shone

Ed Ruscha's visual pun Hurting the Word Radio #2 rose to $46m, a new world record for the artist, but most lots barely reached their estimate in a slow sales season

Futurist bronze sculpture cast from another bronze in the 1970s sells for $16.2m—four times its estimate

In our new video series, deputy art market editor Margaret Carrigan recaps the highlights of New York's billion-dollar auction week

Can the quality of the smaller works coming up during "gigaweek" quell economic jitters?

If not immune to geopolitical unrest, then perhaps art is a refuge for money that is struggling to find its way into other assets

A different version of the sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space sold at the auction house in 1975 for $41,000

Post-war and contemporary sale in New York also produced a big sale for Robert Rauschenberg and new records for Louise Bourgeois and Jonas Wood

Fresh material from big collections led the $399m New York auction, while mid-tier Monets primed the market for his $55m haystacks work at Sotheby's tonight

Christie’s values the Japanese-influenced picture of the asylum garden at $25m

The Yorkshireman's 1970s Californian scene, Portrait of an Artist, sold on the nose at $80m at Christie's in New York last night

Rockefeller auction plus leap in private and online sales drive 26% increase

Sotheby's sale fell below estimate while Christie’s provided some cheer, showing there is still money in Monet – but only the right one

New record for Joan Mitchell as fresh artists join the $10m-and-up club—but Bacon and Basquiat still dominate top prices in New York

Leaning on romance of Rockefeller name and its appeal to international and first-time buyers, the auction house triumphed in its marathon week of sales

Gesture consolidates close political alliance between Saudi Arabia and the UAE

Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi

Painting is being presented by Christie’s as the “Holy Grail of Old Master paintings”

Salvator Mundi will break Old Master auction record as seller dispute rumbles on