Christie's

Two long-standing auction department heads launch second careers as dealers this month.

The latest flagship sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York showed a return to some normality after a difficult 14 months.

On June 16 Christie’s Paris is holding a sale devoted to female artists.

A number of Paris salerooms will be holding dedicated auctions of Asian Arts in June.

A spectacular parure of sapphires and diamonds, from the collection of Napoleon’s adoptive daughter, Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden (1789-1860), is for sale at Christie’s Magnificent Jewels auction in Geneva on May 12.

Depiction of one McNeill sister sets a record while portrait of her sibling also appears at another auction

An eight-lot sale in New York titled A Family Collection: Works on Paper, Van Gogh to Freud raised a premium-inclusive total of $25.3m (£18.2m).

For people who follow the art market, Banksy (b.1975) is now impossible to ignore.

Christie’s has announced that from this summer it will be renaming its Impressionist & Modern and Post-War & Contemporary sales.

Archaic Chinese bronzes were the stand out lots in Asian Art Week in New York this month.

In Praise of America was a very mixed sale of furniture, silver, folk art, prints, broadsides and more held in New York.

The work of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) will feature prominently in the dedicated sale of Old Master and 19th century drawings at Christie’s Paris.

Sir Winston Churchill’s towering presence in the art market was on full display last week as his auction record was broken four-and-a-half times over.

Auction houses are getting back to normal for this latest staging of the New York Asian art spotlight, although new import taxes are having an effect.

MADAM – I am intrigued by the ongoing debate surrounding Christie’s interpretation of the current Covid-19 restrictions in relation to the viewing of auction lots – in particular the Apter- Fredericks sale of January 26 (front page, ATG No 2481).

Christie’s has explained its policy of holding trade-only viewings of its sales, saying they comprise ‘business meetings’ rather than public viewings.