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Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams revealed mixed annual sales figures indicating the ups and downs of the art market in 2023.

Rembrandt prints were a prominent feature of the London Old Master sales in December.

A couple of views of London were strongly contested at the latest Old Master auction series in the capital.

Quirky subjects generate the most eye-catching results at the latest Old Master auction series

Christie’s latest series of ‘Classic Week’ auctions were the last conducted by global president and lead auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen before leaving the company to become an independent art adviser.

A couple of headline lots, a scattering of rare and unusual pictures and one of the most valuable consignments of prints ever offered lifted the latest series of Old Master auctions in London.

A good crop of top-end Impressionist and Modern pictures lifted the latest flagship series of auctions in New York.

A £2m collection of English country house furnishings from Ombersley Court, a Grade I-listed country house near Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, comes for sale at Christie’s this month.

On November 29 Christie’s will offer Ombersley Court: The Collection of Lord and Lady Sandys – a historic collection of an English aristocratic family spanning five centuries.

A raft of Modern and Contemporary art auctions were held in Paris in the second half of October coinciding with the Paris + par Art Basel fair held at the Grand Palais Ephemère.

The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

The latest Frieze week auctions in London generated a markedly lower total than the equivalent series last year.

Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction

Sotheby’s and Christie’s have both announced major lots that will feature at the next series of Old Master auctions in London in December.