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Silver, Gold & MetalsWorks of Art
Jean-Étienne Liotard (Geneva 1702-1789), Mural of the portrait of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Softwood panel, one board, not parqueted. Photo @ Giquello (detail)Sponsored
Works of Art4 June 2026

Rare Cézanne Portrait to Lead Giquello's "Tentation°4" Auction

Live bidding for the Prince Collection begins on June 19, 2026 at 1 PM BST. Photo © Apollo Art AuctionsSponsored
Works of Art4 June 2026

Ancient Treasures from the Prince Collection Return to Auction at Apollo

Georg Kolbe's "Dancers' Fountain" from 1922 leads Grisebach’s summer auctions in Berlin. Photo © Grisebach (detail)Sponsored
Works of Art20 May 2026

Restituted Kolbe Masterpiece Leads Grisebach’s Summer Sales

Adrien Meyer, global head of private sales and co-chairman for Impressionist and Modern Art, sells Henry Moore's "King and Queen" at Christie's new podium, redesigned by Sir Jony Ive and his team at LoveFrom. Photo © Christie's (detail)
Works of Art6 March 2026

Records for Henry Moore and Dorothea Tanning at London’s March Auctions

From the left: Paul Signac, Marseille. Le Port, 1934. Photo © Sotheby's (detail); René Magritte, Les grâces naturelles, ca. 1961. Photo © Christie's (detail); Wassily Kandinsky, Le rond rouge, 1939. Photo © Christie's (detail); Claude Monet, Maison de jardinier, 1884. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Works of Art25 February 2026

Major Collections Lead London’s March Auctions

Arpita Singh, 'Feminine Fables', 1996, reverse painting in acrylic on acrylic sheet. Photo © Christie's (detail)
Works of Art29 January 2026

13 Indian Artists You Should Know

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry. Photo © Bayeux Museum
Works of Art19 January 2026

What to Know About the Bayeux Tapestry

Roger Broders (1883-1953), Sport's D'Hiver. lithographic poster, c.1930, condition B+; backed on linen, framed. Image © Lyon & Turnbull (detail)
Works of Art23 December 2025

The Art of the Alps: A History of Winter Sports Posters

Claude Monet, 'Carriage on a Snow-Covered Street in Honfleur', c. 1866, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (detail). Photo public domain
Works of Art21 December 2025

Winter in 10 Artworks

Frida Kahlo, El sueño (La cama), 1940. Sold at Sotheby's in November 2025 for $54.7 million. Image © Sotheby's
Works of Art2 December 2025

The 15 Most Expensive Female Artists

Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1914–16. Sold at Sotheby's on 18 November 2025 for $205m ($236.3m with fees). Photo © Sotheby’s (detail)
Works of Art19 November 2025

Klimt Portrait Sets $236.3m Record at Sotheby’s

Egon Schiele (1890 Tulln - 1918 Vienna), Crouching Nude, Back View, signed and dated EGON SCHIELE 1917, handwritten inscription Szerena Lederer on the reverse, gouache and black crayon on paper, 29.5 x 45 cm. Photo © Dorotheum (detail)Sponsored
Works of Art5 November 2025

A Landmark Schiele Drawing Comes to Auction

The Collection of Cindy and Jay Pritzker: Vincent van Gogh, Romans Parisiens (Les Livres jaunes) in situ. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Works of Art10 October 2025

Nearly $800 Million in Single-Owner Collections Head to Auction in New York

A wide view of Pauline Karpidas’ salon in her London home, the walls hung with artworks by Pablo Picasso, Francis Picabia, Victor Brauner, Oscar Dominguez and Dorothea Tanning, among others. Furniture and design pieces by Claude Lalanne, Jacques Grange and Mattia Bonetti. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Works of Art26 September 2025

White-Glove Sale for Pauline Karpidas’s Collection at Sotheby’s London

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 15: A man holds his hand up while bidding on a work of art inside the auction house Christie's during the Post-War and contemporary Art sale November 15, 2006 in New York City. Christie's estimates that works by Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein and others could go for up to $220 million in what the auction house says may be the most valuable post-World War II and contemporary art auction in history. Warhol's "Mao" portrait from 1972 went for over 17 million, setting an all time record for the artist. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (detail)
Works of Art25 July 2025

What Art Buyers Need to Know About VAT in 2025

FLORENCE, ITALY - DECEMBER 30: Visitors view and photograph the painting Primavera (Spring) by the 15th century Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli at the Uffizi Gallery on December 30, 2022 in Florence, the capital of Italy’s Tuscany region. The 16th century museum is famous for its collection of ancient sculptures and its paintings that date from the Middle Ages to the Modern period. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images) (detail)
Works of Art25 June 2025

Should Photography Be Banned in Museums?

John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott, 1888, oil on canvas, 153x200 cm, Tate Britain. Public domain image (detail).
Works of Art23 June 2025

Painting and Poetry: 4 Pairs of Masterpieces

Juan Gris (1887-1927), 'Still Life before an Open Window, Place Ravignan', 1915, oil on canvas, 45.65 x 35.02 cm, detail. Photo public domain
Works of Art19 March 2025

Juan Gris: The New Cubist on the Block

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Three Studies of Lucian Freud, painted in 1969. Sold at Christie’s auction in November 2013 for USD 142,405,000. Photo © Christie’s.
Works of Art27 February 2025

$142 Million Bacon Tryptic Rumoured to Have Been Destroyed in the LA Fires

The approach to Venice or Venice from the lagoon by Joseph Mallord William Turner, circa 1840. Sold at Christie’s Auction on the 4th of February 2025 for $327.600 (detail). Photo © Christie’s.
Works of Art5 February 2025

Turner Watercolour Identified via Online Appraisal Sells at Christie's

Edvard Munch, Self-portrait with skeleton arm, lithograph, 1895, Munch Museum, Oslo. Photo in the public domain (detail)
Works of Art13 December 2024

Edvard Munch: 5 Facts to Know

The Hôtel de Donon in the Marais district of Paris has housed the Musée Cognacq-Jay since 1990. Photo by Mbzt – Own work (licensed under CC BY 3.0/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) via Wikimedia Commons.
Works of Art6 December 2024

Two Major Museum Robberies in France

Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960), Comedian, executed in 2019, banana and duct tape. Photo © Sotheby's (detail)
Works of Art27 November 2024

The New York Marquee Sales: A $6 Million Banana and More

René Magritte (1898-1967), L’empire des lumières, 1954, oil on canvas. Photo © Christie's (detail)
Works of Art15 November 2024

The New York Marquee Sales: A Preview

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