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  • 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 at Christie’s

    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

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

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
    Visual Arts
    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

  • Promoted Content
  • 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
    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
    Hopper painting sells under the hammer for $85m

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

  • Wednesday, 26 September, 2018
    Watches & Jewellery
    Auction prestige bolsters contemporary jewellers

    Designers are looking beyond traditional retail to the sale room

  • Monday, 21 May, 2018
    The Art Market
    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
    The Art Market
    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, Christie’s look outside for luxury leaders

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

  • Wednesday, 21 March, 2018
    Data protection
    Secretive art world grapples with new data rules

    Personal information is the life blood of galleries and auction houses

  • Friday, 9 February, 2018
    Collecting
    Christie’s Guillaume Cerutti on a sales boom

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

  • Friday, 26 January, 2018
    House & Home
    David Tang’s collection goes under Christie’s hammer

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

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
    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
    Luxury goods
    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

  • Thursday, 16 November, 2017
    Arts
    Hunt for new master of record-breaking Da Vinci

    Art market speculates on identity of secret buyer of ‘Salvator Mundi’

  • Thursday, 16 November, 2017
    Arts
    Da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ sells for record $450m

    Renaissance master’s rediscovered portrait of Jesus becomes most expensive artwork ever

  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2017
    Companies
    Christie’s $479.3m art sale strongest in a decade

    Van Gogh ‘Farmer’ picture sells for $81.3m with fees, just shy of record

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