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The Paris auction houses will also be hosting plenty of sales devoted entirely or in part to works on paper.

Fifteeth year of the New York event involves 28 dealers and 12 salerooms taking part

Market shows strength only for select works as sourcing high-quality material proves inceasingly difficult

The Barbier-Mueller family is well known as a collecting dynasty, especially for its ethnographic art.

Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s offered notable works by French artist Hubert Robert (1733-1808) at the latest Old Master auction series in New York.

The desire by top museums to buy works by under-represented groups, including women and minority ethnic artists, has led to two new auction records in the US.

Auction firms in France followed a more traditional course in 2023 according to the latest figures.

An original watercolour of the 'Little Prince' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry fetched nearly 10 times its low estimate, selling for a record £240,000 hammer.

Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams revealed mixed annual sales figures indicating the ups and downs of the art market in 2023.

Rembrandt prints were a prominent feature of the London Old Master sales in December.

A couple of views of London were strongly contested at the latest Old Master auction series in the capital.

Quirky subjects generate the most eye-catching results at the latest Old Master auction series