A court has suspended the export license of the 17th-century arithmetic device designed by Blaise Pascal, the last such example in private hands

Led by a Christopher Wool painting that made $19.8m, the evening included 19 lots from the Chicago collectors Gale Neeson and Stefan Edlis

The house's total is up 42% from last year's equivalent sale, and it set new auction records for Leonor Fini and Beauford Delaney

Estimates are up by more than 40% over last year’s November sales, driven in large part by Sotheby’s consignments

Peter Doig’s ‘Ski Jacket’ soared over its estimate to achieve £106.9m at Christie’s, but overall lower estimates and price corrections revealed a mixed picture

An early example of Calder’s most famous creations, the work carries a record estimate of $15m to $20m

Sotheby's and Phillips's Hong Kong sales were also down from their 2024 equivalents

Coming from the same private collection, the works span three decades of Freud's career

The Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art will sell off its treasures this autumn at Christie’s in New York

A thrilling Dior debut in Paris for new creative director Jonathan Anderson, an earthy, wood-themed jewellery collection at Christie’s London by Natasha Wightman, a must-see doll’s house at the Rijksmuseum and shoe king Manolo Blahnik sponsors a V&A exhibition about Marie Antoinette

The collection of 95 works, built with his wife Princess Catherine, will be auctioned in London on 28 October

Wynn, who died in April, owned trophy works by Lucian Freud, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell and others

With the NFT market still a fraction of its recent heights, the auction house has reportedly let go of key staffers

The Weis family's private trove of masterworks has emerged at last

We look back at the blockbuster, with intriguing and little-known stories behind many of the loans

Videos on TikTok and Instagram promoting everything from a Marie Antoinette diamond to Marlene Dumas’s paintings have garnered thousands of views

The exhibition is auction house’s third dedicated to Middle Eastern art, part of a strategy to support the region

A landscape that includes economic volatility, generational movement and new technology is changing the rules of engagement

The painting, once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, was sold during Christie's £55m Old Master sale in London tonight, alongside works by Constable, Willem Key and Gerrit Dou

The work was pulled from a Christie's auction following claims by the Romanian government that it had been unlawfully removed from the country in 1947

Plus, an early Western view of India and an “illuminating” Giacometti lightpost

Anadol will reimagine the Argentine megastar’s famous 2009 header as a data sculpture which will be sold at Christie’s

Last night’s low-risk, low energy auctions made $489m in total, including $272m for the collection of Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio, along with new records for Dorothea Tanning and Remedios Varo

'Miss January' comes to market from the holdings of the influential collectors Mera and Don Rubell

The 18th-century view of Venice is likely to break the artist's auction record

Alex Rotter's promotion is the latest senior management shuffle at the auction house since Guillaume Cerutti stepped down

The painting "Baby Boom" was featured in one of the artist's first solo exhibitions at Fun Gallery

The painting headed to Christie's, "Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule", was on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for more than 30 years

Christie's will offer the rose-hued “Big Electric Chair” from the collection of influential Belgian art patrons Roger Matthys and Hilda Colle

Both auctions represent significant decreases from previous sales seasons, but strong sell-through rates and increased bidding from mainland China indicate signs of recovery