Thinking Italian

Collecting guide: 10 things to know about Yayoi Kusama

Yoshitomo Nara: ‘Even if I knew there would be no one out there to look at my work, I would still make the exact same thing’

Collecting guide: 10 things to know about tiaras

10 things to know about Hokusai

‘My women are beautiful in their individuality’

Unveiled for the first time in more than half a century

‘Sculpture is a catalyst for a re-engagement with the elements and matter’

Howard Hodgkin: ‘One of the very greatest painters of the last 50 years’

From the inside out — Basquiat’s Red Skull (1982)

New York New Wave: The Eighties artists who forged new directions for painting

Peter Doig’s Camp Forestia (1996)

‘An image that remains still in a world that is moving’

The insider’s guide to Frieze Week 2017

Malcolm Cossons

Basquiat’s Red Skull (1982) leads in London

Collecting Guide: Arte Povera

A guide to the CoBrA group: perhaps the last true avant-garde movement of the 20th century

RESULTS: Highest Total Realised for a Week of Post-War and Contemporary Art in Europe £179,609,000 / $235,144,681 / € 200,751,424