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Christie’s latest series of ‘Classic Week’ auctions were the last conducted by global president and lead auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen before leaving the company to become an independent art adviser.

A couple of headline lots, a scattering of rare and unusual pictures and one of the most valuable consignments of prints ever offered lifted the latest series of Old Master auctions in London.

A good crop of top-end Impressionist and Modern pictures lifted the latest flagship series of auctions in New York.

A £2m collection of English country house furnishings from Ombersley Court, a Grade I-listed country house near Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, comes for sale at Christie’s this month.

On November 29 Christie’s will offer Ombersley Court: The Collection of Lord and Lady Sandys – a historic collection of an English aristocratic family spanning five centuries.

A raft of Modern and Contemporary art auctions were held in Paris in the second half of October coinciding with the Paris + par Art Basel fair held at the Grand Palais Ephemère.

The auction record for a pair of chairs was broken twice as part of Christie’s Rothschild family auction series in New York.

The latest Frieze week auctions in London generated a markedly lower total than the equivalent series last year.

Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh records beaten as collection of a Rolling Stone comes to auction

Sotheby’s and Christie’s have both announced major lots that will feature at the next series of Old Master auctions in London in December.

Two previously unrecorded swords from the Tiger of Mysore are among the stand-out lots on offer in upcoming auctions and from dealers

Christie’s sale Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone combined stardust with an extraordinary library of modern first editions.

Next month Christie’s New York will present the final sales of the remarkable Ann and Gordon Getty collection.