Art & Photography
Christie's 2014 sales brings a record $8.4bn, up 17%
Christie's saw the highest sales of any art company in history in 2014
Lichtenstein's Landscape Mobile brings $28,000 to Bonhams
Roy Lichtenstein's Landscape Mobile (Limoges) is a limited edition piece
Hadjimichael's Ulysses brings Iphigenia will auction for $211,000
Theofilos Hadjimichael's Ulysses brings Iphigenia is top lot in Bonhams' Greek Sale
Picasso's Homme Assis brings $1.9m to Christie's Shanghai auction
Christie's is the first auction house to sell a Picasso in mainland China: Homme Assis
Renoir's Venus victorieuse brings $545,000 to controversial auction
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Venus victorieuse is said to be the culmination of his sculptural work
Roerich's Madonna Laboris brings record $12.1m to Bonhams' Russian sale
Nikolai Roerich's Madonna Laboris is the most valuable piece ever sold in a Russian art auction
Sumerian cuneiform tablet brings $10,500 to Antiquities Saleroom
An ancient Sumerian tablet written in cuneiform script was translated prior to the sale
Gerhard Richter's Mao brings 10% increase in UK auction
An early work from Gerhard Richter led a Chairman Mao themed sale
Marcel Brient collection brings $6.6m to Sotheby's
The contemporary art collection of Marcel Brient saw Simon Hantai's Etude up 105.9%
Sotheby's brings contemporary Turkish Art to London in April
The exhibition will mark the company's Turkish and Islamic Week: Classical to Contemporary
Song dynasty bowl brings World Record price of US$26.7m at Sotheby's
The highly rare Chinese ceramic sold for HK$208m (US$26.7m), tripling its pre-sale estimate
Photographic equipment auction brings over $700,000 in online bids
The Keir collection was 100% snapped-up, and overall the auction had a successful selling rate of 93%