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An American museum has doubled its reward to $10m to find artworks stolen 25 years ago.

Not content with writing all those those much-loved children’s stories that are his principal and lasting legacy, Hans Christian Andersen wrote plays, novels, travelogues and, just to fill up his spare time, turned his talents to drawing, creating collages and producing paper-cuts.

US police and a New Orleans dealer have appealed to the trade to help find a stolen Asprey & Co clock.

It’s already one of the most famous images in the world, and thanks to a British Museum exhibition opening this week ‘The Great Wave’ is set to thrill an even wider audience.

Five hundred years after it was nailed to a church door, a copy of Martin Luther’s ‘95 Theses’ was hammered down at a German auction at €1.1m.

Design fair PAD is to expand to Switzerland with a new event planned for next year.

A painting Jean-Michel Basquiat set the fifth highest ever auction price in New York last night when it was knocked down for $98m (£76m) at Sotheby’s.

Christie’s chairman of the Asia Pacific region François Curiel is returning to Europe after being promoted by the company.

‘Journées Marteau’, the annual national initiative aimed at promoting the world of auctions across France, takes place this weekend.

Christie’s evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York met with a robust response last night and was led by paintings by two of the biggest names in the market: Cy Twombly (1928-2011) and Francis Bacon (1909-92).

The late withdrawal of Sotheby’s star lot at an evening auction in New York last night was a blot on an otherwise solid sale of Impressionist & Modern art.

Berlin auction house Historia Auktionshaus has acquired the website and trademark of defunct German online firm Auctionata Paddle8 AG.

A record for a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and a 1930s Pablo Picasso portrait of Dora Maar boosted the total at Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art auction in New York last night.

More than 1000 Disneyland props and souvenirs are heading to auction in California next month.