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The completion of the US transcontinental railroad in 1869 was the marvel of its age.

Two important Mannerist bronzes were bought by museums when a New York private collection was sold in Manhattan last month.

A painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) from the collection of the divorcing couple Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson led the latest series of Old Master sales in New York.

A 19th century folk art painting of one black and one white child depicted together as equals has been purchased at auction by art dealer Philip Mould.

Key artists in the American pop art movement such as Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1929- 87) make big ticket prices.

Ever since the record-breaking $400m sale of Salvator Mundi at Christie’s back in 2017, the market seems to have become fascinated with other treatments of the subject.

Juan Manuel Grasset became part of a new generation who bought directly at auction from the 1960s

News of a busy month in New York including major fairs and a bigger auctions schedule

Two works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), an early oil on canvas of the Thames and a watercolour of Switzerland, feature in Christie’s Old Masters series in New York.

Two Herschel family-related historic items – a Royal Society King’s medal and a manuscript memoir – have changed hands at auction and in a private sale.

Sir Michael Butler (1927-2013) was part of that post-war generation of ‘gentlemen in the professions’ who chose collecting as their primary leisure activity.

The latest series of Old Master sales in London put in a decent if not stellar performance, aided by one or two notable lots and a couple of important collections coming forward to the auction block this season.

Era of pop art and protests also brought fresh design beyond the earlier ‘tool’ template

Anglophile American lawyer’s excellent and extensive collection is sold in New York.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including items once in the collection of Marie-Antoinette coming to Christie’s Paris.

Dining at Ann and Gordon Getty’s sumptuous Californian residence can seldom have been dull.

Despite wider economic uncertainty, prices for LS Lowry (1887-1976) seem to keep on rising.