A painting by celebrated master Edgar Degas has been found at a New York auction nearly 40 years after being stolen from a French museum, France’s culture ministry said Wednesday. Sotheby’s removed “Blanchisseuses souffrant des dents” (“Laundry Women with Toothache”) from its impressionist art sale after France alerted the auction house that it belonged to [...]

Following yesterday evening’s remarkably strong results, Sotheby’s October Sales Series of 20th Century Italian Art and Contemporary Art today concluded with the Contemporary Art Day Auction, which brought the near-top estimate total of £9,683,850 ($15,513,528/€11,014,376) (est. £7.5-10.6 million). The sale established sell-through rates of 83% by lot and 86% by value.

Christie’s announced the sale of the Collection of Max Palevsky, a superb group of over 250 works ranging from Antiquities to those by the most significant artists from the Impressionist and Modern and Post-War and Contemporary periods. The collection will be offered throughout multiple auctions starting in October 2010 at Christie’s New York and is [...]

Detail from Edvard Munch’s Madonna The controversial artwork, in Munch’s famous swirling style, had been estimated to fetch £500,000 to £700,000 at Bonhams Prints sale in London. Bonhams said that as well as setting a UK record, the image was also the second most expensive print to be sold in the world. Another Munch work, [...]

Employees pose for photographers on an early Victorian private coach capable of transporting around ten people at Christie’s South Kensington in London. The carriage was auctioned in the Althorp Attic Sale, and is one of the carriages among the highlights of selection of works from Althorp and Spencer House, the historic London home of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]