Artcurial
Basel auction house prepares for first sale after being acquired by Artcurial
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer will offer a selection of works from the estate of Florence and Antoine Poncet
Artcurial expands into Switzerland with a stake in auction house Beurret Bailly Widmer
The Swiss company will now be called Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer, with the three Swiss founders remaining as partners
From a homoerotic Marsden Hartley to a Yoshitomo Nara painting of Michael Jackson: our pick of the highlights from April's sales
Plus, dramatic scenes from the Iliad and a delicate Modigliani head
Paris auction house Artcurial reports best year of sales—despite a downturn in trade of 20th- and 21st-century art
A record year for the French market was shored up by a particularly strong crop of Old Master work
From a restituted Chagall painting to a family portrait by Freud: our pick of the highlights from November's sales
Plus, a bovine Lalanne sculpture and a pair of Chinese vases
Kimbell Art Museum revealed as buyer of Chardin's strawberries masterpiece—but must wait for Louvre’s next move
The Louvre has two-and-a-half years to buy the record-breaking €24m painting
Strawberry painting by Chardin makes €24m at Artcurial Paris, smashing the French artist's auction record
The New York dealer Adam Williams bought the fruity still-life
Object lessons: from a Francis Bacon triptych to India's most expensive woman artist at auction
Our pick of highlights from forthcoming auctions and fairs
Object lessons: from a Renaissance drawing unseen for a century to a work by Mali’s pre-eminent photographer
Our pick of the highlights from coming fairs and auctions
Rediscovered painting by Leonardo da Vinci's 'little devil' lover and collaborator sells for record €1.7m in France
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
Collection of Balthus drawings and paintings to be sold for €1.2m—so why no mention of his infatuation with pubescent girls?
The works are from the estate of the artist’s teenage “muse and model” Frédérique Tison, who was also his step-niece
Strong sales as France restarts live auctions
Artcurial, the first auction house to reopen, doubled its sale estimate as lockdown seems to have "sharpened" buyers' appetite
Leading French auctioneer François Tajan dies, aged 57
The deputy chairman of the Paris-based auction house Artcurial was suffering from food poisoning
Object lessons: from a Rubik's Cube Mona Lisa to a Surrealist animal bone sculpture
Our pick of highlights from the next week's auctions and fairs
Rare Tahitian painting by Gauguin sells for €9.5m at Artcurial in Paris
Te Bourao II, which went to an international collector, was on loan to the Met in New York for ten years
UK buyer bags Artemisia Gentileschi painting for a record €4.8m in Paris
Work depicting Roman heroine Lucretia was in a private collection for 40 years
Gauguin Tahitian painting comes to auction in Paris from the walls of the Met
Te Bourao II (The Purao Tree), which has been in the same collection since 1995, is estimated to sell for €5m-€7m at Artcurial
Surfacing on the market: macabre mourning jewellery and a bronze cast by Camille Claudel
Our pick of this month's most interesting auctions
Hervé Poulain and Reneé Le Fur make surprise announcement that the pair are joining Artcurial-Briest group
The Sotheby’s-friendly team is joining Artcurial
Arms giant Dassault backs “cultural and artistic hub” for French auction Market
Briest allies with Artcurial