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    • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
      US
      Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe sells for record $195mn

      Silkscreen of iconic movie star commands highest-ever price for work by a US artist

    • Friday, 19 March, 2021
      FTfmJohn Dizard
      Taxman is out for art market money laundering

      Auction houses face the prospect of enforcing anti-money-laundering rules as strict as those in the banking industry

    • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
      Visual Arts
      Beeple collage smashes digital art record with $69.3m sale

      A first-of-its-kind sale by Christie’s underscores mania for non-fungible tokens

    • Friday, 16 October, 2020
      News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
      Auctioneers bid to clone live experience

      Houses experiment in reproducing online the glamour and adrenalin of physical sales

    • Monday, 27 July, 2020
      Style
      Diamonds and Dutch masters: what the wealthy are buying

      Jewellers, auction houses and property agents report a brisk business in rare gems, autographed trainers and $19m Hamptons homes during Covid-19

    • Friday, 10 January, 2020
      William Shakespeare
      Shakespeare First Folio to be auctioned for first time in 20 years

      One of the most important books in literary history brings together 36 of the playwright’s dramas

    • Thursday, 4 July, 2019
      Collecting
      Tutankhamun sculpture sold for £4m despite Egypt’s objections

      Cairo had called for sale to be postponed so provenance could be investigated

    • Friday, 21 June, 2019
      Egypt
      Tutankhamun auction raises questions of provenance

      Countries of origin call for greater scrutiny of antiquities market

    • Tuesday, 18 June, 2019
      Due Diligence
      Patrick Drahi brings hammer down on Sotheby’s Premium content

      Welcome to Due Diligence, the FT’s daily deals briefing

    • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
      Visual Arts
      Jeff Koons sculpture sells for $91m in new record 

      ‘Rabbit’ sale knocks David Hockney from the top spot for living artists

    • Thursday, 14 February, 2019
      Accountancy
      Rare medieval accountancy book expected to sell for $1.5m

      Christie’s to auction 15th century work that set out the principles of double-entry bookkeeping

    • Thursday, 10 January, 2019
      Style
      Catherine Deneuve: ‘I was a symbol, I suppose’

      As France’s archetypal screen goddess auctions off her couture wardrobe, she talks film, frocks — and her career-defining friendship with Yves Saint Laurent

    • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
      Adam Smith (Philosopher)
      Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations’ goes under the hammer

      Economist’s personal copy of pioneering work set to fetch £500,000 to £800,000

    • Friday, 16 November, 2018
      Collecting
      David Hockney painting sets new record for living artist

      ‘Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)’ sells for $90.3m at Christie’s auction

    • Wednesday, 14 November, 2018
      New York City
      Painting by Edward Hopper sells under the hammer for $85m

      Ebsworth collection of American artists nets $317m at Christie’s auction

    • Wednesday, 26 September, 2018
      Watches & Jewellery
      Auction house prestige gives contemporary jewellers a boost

      Designers are looking beyond traditional retail to the sale room

    • Monday, 21 May, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Two weeks of art sales bring in $2.8bn haul

      Flagship auctions beat estimates even as bidding thins out at top end of market

    • Monday, 30 April, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Rubens painting that fooled the Met goes up for sale

      Artwork sold for $626,000 in 2013 has estimate of £3m-£5m at Christie’s

    • Thursday, 22 March, 2018
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Sotheby’s and Christie’s look outside for luxury leaders

      These two women are reshaping how the companies sell watches and jewellery

    • Wednesday, 21 March, 2018
      Work & Careers
      A secretive art world grapples with data protection legislation

      Personal information is the life blood of galleries and auction houses

    • Friday, 9 February, 2018
      Life & Arts
      Christie’s Guillaume Cerutti on a sales boom — and that Leonardo

      The chief executive of Christie’s explains why sales are rising at the auction house

    • Friday, 26 January, 2018
      Life & Arts
      David Tang’s collection goes under the hammer at Christie’s

      Items reveal the idiosyncratic taste of the FT’s late columnist and Agony Uncle

    • Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Da Vinci’s ‘Salvatore Mundi’ headed to Louvre Abu Dhabi
    • Saturday, 25 November, 2017
      Special ReportFT Wine: Buying & Investing
      Online wine auctions become $50m market

      Houses can achieve higher prices for top wines than in the saleroom

    • Friday, 17 November, 2017
      Life & Arts
      Da Vinci sale propels auction houses to $2bn week

      Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips see strong bidding for trophy lots in big season sales

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