Fine Art & Auctions
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Jean-Michel Basquiat painting goes under hammer for $110.5 million
Basquiat was 21 years old and still a relative unknown when he painted this piece.
Scarfe's biting satire to go under the hammer at Sotheby's
A selection of cartoons by satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe are going under the hammer at Sotheby's.
View of the south front of Cliveden ©National Trust Images Nick Meers. Credit: ©National Trust Images Nick Meers
Sotheby's experts to appraise your antiques during Meissen event at Cliveden
A team of experts from Sotheby's will be giving appraisals of antiques during an event organised by porcelain maker Meissen at the beautiful Cliveden House.
Credit: Two Hacks by George Stubbs (Parker Gallery)
Long-neglected 'copy' turns out to be original Stubbs worth £750,000
Gallery owner Archie Parker thought something was amiss when he came across this painting in an online sale catalogue, and he flew to New York to play out his hunch. It paid off.
The Tate's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, first exhibited 1831 by John Constable Credit: Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows exhibited 1831 by John Constable - copyright: Tate
Constable 'added rainbow after his masterpiece first went on display'
Charming Baker - Children & the Arts sale Credit: Charming Baker - Children & the Arts sale
Princess Eugenie helps boost Children & the Arts charity auction at Christie's
The princess has helped secure donations of works, and has given her patronage to the sale helping a charity which she says has left her "truly inspired".
Sotheby's sell Gustav Klimt's Bauerngarten Credit: Sotheby's sell Gustav Klimt's Bauerngarten
Sotheby's set new London auction record with £48m Klimt leading the way
A sale of Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist paintings at Sotheby's on Wednesday night set the record for an auction staged in London.
Charles I's lost painting, up for sale for the first time in nearly 400 years
Velázquez's Juan de Pareja, the first painting to fetch more than £1 million when sold from Lord Radnor's collection in 1970
The 5 sales which made Christie's – No.5: The first million-pound picture
This month, Christie's is celebrating its 250th anniversary. Huon Mallalieu chooses five key sales that chart the transformation of a Pall Mall auction house into a giant of the international art market.
Rubens's celebrated chalk drawing of his wife, Isabella Brant, of about 1621, one of the treasures from the Holford collection dispersed in two major sales, in 1893 and 1928
The 5 sales which made Christie's – No.4: The Holford sale
This spectacular commode, made by Charles Cressent in about 1730, was bought by Baron Edmond de Rothschild at the Hamilton Palace sale in 1882. It is now at Waddesdon Manor
The 5 sales which made Christie's – No.3: The Hamilton Palace sale
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visit Stowe in 1845. This extravagant reception was one of the factors that forced the sale of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos's collection three years later
The 5 sales which made Christie's – No.2: The Stowe sale
Eager bidding for Francis Bacon's triptych portrait of Lucian Freud, November 12, 2013. It fetched £89.4 million
The 5 sales which made Christie's – No.1: The first sale
Dame Laura Knight, R.A, R.W.S (1877-1970), Derby Day, Watercolour and pencil, Signed, lower right, 24 x 35cm (9 1/2 x 13 3/4in.), Est. £10,000- £15,000
Dame Laura Knight's 'Derby Days' up for auction in Newbury
An auction to be held in Newbury on Tuesday 13th December has some beautiful racing-themed objects for sale.
Lucian Freud's 'Woman in white shirt' Credit: Chatsworth
The Lucian Freud portrait that 'is probably the most beautiful thing at Chatsworth'
A new series of mini-documentaries is looking at some of Chatsworth House's many treasures – starting with a painting that was once deemed shocking.
David Bowie's private art collection goes up for sale
David Bowie's personal art collection to feature in three sales at Sotheby's.
This photograph of Monet (about 1921) shows the high horticultural level achieved at Giverny, where the garden was formally arranged close to the house
The art of Monet's garden
As a Country Life subscriber, Monet was very proud of his garden, and would have been reading Gertrude Jekyll's writings after 1897