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A report of the 2023 winter Old Master sale in London, where Christie’s brought in a total of $42.9 million against Sotheby’s $36.6 million.

Ahead of the final weekend for the Vermeer blockbuster at the Rijksmuseum, a new documentary goes behind the scenes in planning the exhibition

Cliff Schorer of Agnews, London, believes he has tracked down a long-lost Rembrandt painting that escaped the Nazis and was save from fire.

Did Cliff Schorer just find a long-lost painting by arguably the most renowned artist of all time? He won’t rest until he proves it.

A painting with a winding history of theft, confiscation and diplomatic dispute is on public view again after decades. Its owner says Rembrandt made the work himself, but some experts aren’t convinced.

The much-admired dealers of 20th century titans are debuting in New York with an exhibition of work by John Baldessari.

Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Autumn (1616), Fearless: The Collection of Hester Diamond, Sotheby’s, New York, 29 January. Estimate $8m-$12m The late art dealer, collector and interior designer Hester Diamond may have been birdlike in stature but she made up for it with big, bold taste. Her Manhattan home mixed bright contemporary furniture by the likes of Marcel Wanders and Dror Benshetrit with Renaissance paintings, 16th-century limewood sculptures and rare minerals. The star of Sotheby�...

Measuring just 16cm by 21cm, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Abraham and the Angels (1646) may be diminutive in size, but its price tag is anything but. Last publicly sold for £64 in 1848, the Old Testament oil painting is now expected to make $20m to $30m at Sotheby’s in New York in January. The picture has been consigned by Mark Fisch, a trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, a deal no doubt sweetened by the fact that Sothebys has guaranteed the work, effectively purchasing it. A t...