Art & Photography
$42.9m Francesco Guardi masterpiece is the 'most expensive sold this year'
Sotheby's has made the claim about the painting which shows Venice's celebrated Rialto bridge
Astrid Kirchherr's iconic early Beatles photographs go up for sale in New York
A great number of the most celebrated pictures of the Fab Four are to go under the hammer
Video of the Week... Cy Twombly, 'The Grandfather of Graffiti'
A look at the ouvre of one of US's most underappreciated abstract painters, who died yesterday
Chasing the dragon? Chinese collectors fight for a £17,000 treasure.
Gorringes' latest auction saw competetive bidders smash one estimate after another...
George Stubbs' fine thoroughbred painting could race to $48m at Christie's
Famed for his horse depictions, he is just one of the Old Masters on show...
Fortune from the depths... $70m Ming dynasty artefacts saved from shipwreck
Discovered by fishermen, the Chinese merchant ship traded during the reign of Emperor Wanli...
Old Masters prove vitality in $10.9m art sale at Sotheby's Paris
The auction house's final event of the season was a hit with the bidders...
Grey Smith, HA.com Vintage Movie Posters interview: 'Who isn't affected by cinema?
Heritage Auctions' Vintage Movie Poster Director Grey Smith talks about the booming poster markets
Sotheby's breaks its own contemporary art sale record with $172m auction
Last night's brilliant event set a new standard for the rest of the art world
Tiffany puts the rest in the shade in $1.5m antique lamp and glass auction
A typically impressive sale by James D Julia showed that the decorative art markets are strong
Francis Bacon's moody painting brings home $28m at Christie's
His dark 1953 work, Study of a Portrait, was just one of the brilliant works that sold
Great collections... The origins of London's Victoria and Albert Museum
By embracing the Victorian era's waste products, the V&A played a crucial role in collecting history
