Andre Derain’s landscape from the Ambroise Vollard collection, which sold for a record £16.5 million After the buzz of expectation created by the London salerooms, they did produce a record series of Impressionist and Modern art auctions last week, but only just. Mid-way through the fifth and final session, the sales total crept past the [...]

Picture provided by the German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation , BKA, in Berlin on Monday June 28, 2010 shows the painting ‘The Taking of Christ, or The Kiss of Judas’ by Italian painter Caravaggio (1571-1610) . Police say they have recovered the stolen Caravaggio painting and arrested four members of an international gang of [...]

Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto by Pablo Picasso The highest-profile piece sold was Picasso’s Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, purchased for £34,761,250 at the much anticipated sale by Christie’s on Wednesday evening. Picasso’s piece was from the collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber and was dropped from a New York sale four years ago at [...]

Edouard Manet’s Self-portrait With a Palette has been owned by such renowned collectors as Auguste Pellerin and Jakob Goldschmidt. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images An important Édouard Manet self-portrait – one of only two that the artist ever painted – set an auction record last night when it sold in London for £22.4m. The artist’s depiction [...]

A stone sculpture by Amedeo Modigliani has sold for €43 million (£36 million) at a Paris auction. “It’s a record for a work by the artist in any category,” said Christie’s, which organised the sale.

Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), “Roses and Apples”. Estimate £100,000-150,000. Sold for £937,250. The mid-season Russian Art Sale took place today at Christie’s and realized £11,935,750 / $17,330,709 / €14,466,129 selling 76% by lot and 90% by value. The sale had a pre-sale estimate of £7 to £10 million. Enthusiasm and excitement for unique objects and paintings [...]

Workers hang a painting as they prepare the exhibition “Klee meets Picasso” at the “Zentrum Paul Klee” museum in Bern. The exhibition of works by Swiss artist Paul Klee and Spanish artist Pablo Picasso will open on June 6 and run until September 26 Two masters, four themes, eight pictures. Poetry here, drama there. Irony [...]