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Online auction site eBay plans to spin off its PayPal business into a separate publicly traded company next year.

Still Life, Vase with Daisies, painted by Vincent van Gogh at the home of his physician Paul Gachet just weeks before he died, carries an estimate of $30m-50m at Sotheby’s New York on November 4. It will be on view in London from October 12-18.

Frieze Masters (October’s 15-19) have unveiled this year’s Talks programme

It has taken just over a month for the Art Fund’s £2.74m appeal to save the Wedgwood Collection to reach its target. It will now be gifted to the V&A but will stay in situ at the Wedgwood Museum in Barlaston, near Stoke.

Sotheby's United Kingdom sales have outperformed all other global regions at auction for the year to date, according to figures just released.

Stanley Gibbons are to acquire Mayfair dealers Mallett in a deal said to be worth £8.6m. The deal, just announced, caps almost a year of the stamp and coin specialists spreading their influence through the wider art and antiques world following their acquisition of Noble Investments last November.

Sotheby's have made their first foray into the wine retail market by opening their first wine store in Hong Kong.