Sotheby's

The final artwork by Sir Winston Churchill is to be offered at auction with a £50,000-80,000 estimate.

Is demand for the great Dane becoming more international? Works by the Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) typically feature in 19th century European art sales but Sotheby’s have selected an Impressionist & Modern Art evening auction in New York for its latest offering.

A 16th century Hungarian silver-gilt cup and cover proved the most eagerly-contested lot at Sotheby’s sale of items from the stock of SJ Phillips earlier this week.

Sotheby’s latest evening sale of Contemporary art in London raised a total of £50.3m including premium with a landscape by David Hockney (b.1937) among the lots drawing bidders.

Once believed by other inhabitants of the region to be people who hid in the forests so as to avoid being put to work or taken as slaves, orang-utans undertook a couple of significant auction outings as part of Sotheby's sale of the travel library of John and Suzanne Bonham.

Sotheby’s posted a record price for any piece of Chinese ceramics sold at auction after a rare Ru guanyao brush washer drew a 20 minute bidding battle in Hong Kong.

The personal collections of film stars Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn were both ‘white glove’ events in London last week.

Dealer Philip Mould was among the bidders at Sotheby’s sale of the Yeats collection this week.

Auction house Sotheby’s has awarded two US museums a prize of $125,000 each as part of its new exhibition competition.

The desk used by poet WB Yeats has sold for £150,000 (£187,000 inc premium) this morning, five times its top estimate of £30,000.

Leading players in Irish arts and culture have protested at the sale of the Yeats Collection by Sotheby’s tomorrow (September 27), urging the Irish government to intervene and save it for the nation.

George Daniels’ (1926-2011) ‘Space Travellers’ watch topped its previous auction record when it sold at Sotheby’s this week for an astronomical £3.2m.