Fine Art

Sotheby’s Australia will auction what it calls “the most significant collection of historical international art” offered in the country later this month.

Parents will now be shelling out hundreds of pounds as kids fill up football World Cup sticker albums and negotiate playground swaps in a now time-honoured fashion. Back in the mid-19th century the photo collecting craze was all about the carte de visite, as a May 3 auction underlines.

A rare 17th century depiction of an African man in Europe by Peter Paul Rubens has been placed under a temporary export bar in an attempt to keep it in the country.

Five early works by Gauguin that have never before been on the market and a landscape by van Gogh that has spent eight years hanging in the Van Gogh Museum are to be offered at auction in Paris in June as part of Artcurial’s auction of Impressionist and Modern art.

A judge in a test case in international restitution law relating to Nazi-looted artworks has ruled in favour of a Holocaust victim's heirs rather than an art dealer who owned the pictures.

CAMA Gallery, a Persian art specialist from Iran, has opened its first London gallery in Westminster.

A watercolour design for a First World War memorial in the village of Albury in Surrey was among the works bringing demand at the auction of former V&A director Dr Alan Borg’s collection.

It may only be April but dealers and collectors across the UK and beyond are already turning their minds to the busy days of summer.

A series of enamel murals by a Polish artist once imprisoned in a Russian gulag who later trained as an RAF Spitfire pilot are coming to auction after the revamp of Heathrow Terminal One.

Christie’s is ringing the changes for its auction series in Hong Kong this spring by inviting three European dealers exhibit works at its sale venue.