Looking back on a week of auctions featuring masterworks representing some of the greatest collections assembled in the United States
Explore key British artists from the 19th century to the present day, to be offered across four sales of Modern British Art and British Impressionism this November at Christie’s London.
Specialist Chi Fan Tsang on an imperial vase that resembles a scroll painting in the way the landscape unfurls
Revealed in public for the first time in almost 130 years, Chatterboxes offers an exciting missing link between French and British Impressionism
A profile of the Irish-born artist celebrated for his ‘Wall of Light’ and ‘Landline’ series, and revered as a natural heir to the Abstract Expressionists
David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) realises $90.3 million — a world record price for a living artist
The pioneering sculptor’s biggest contribution to art was arguably the empty space. Illustrated with works offered in London and New York in November 2018
As its decor is offered at auction on 20 November, we look back on the nightclub’s history as a playground for the rich and famous, from Frank Sinatra to Diana Ross
Why would this vase, made in St Petersburg by Russia’s Imperial Porcelain Factory, feature Emperor Franz I of Austria? Specialist Margo Oganesian explains
The story behind Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which realised $90.3 million on 15 November to set a new world record for a living artist
Art critic Alastair Sooke and Christie’s specialist Sophia Zhou discuss the life and times of this giant of Chinese culture
Ancient jewellery styles are in vogue, but original pieces that can be thousands of years old are surprisingly affordable
The British Modernist chronicled life in the industrial north of England for more than 50 years. This busy racetrack scene is offered on 19 November
Ahead of the sale of The Knight of the Lord's Passion, Alastair Smart profiles the Pre-Raphaelite artist described by Burne-Jones as ‘the best of us all’
Offered on November 29, this exceptional single malt is expected to set a new world auction record. Specialist Tim Triptree MW explains why
We believe Eleanor Roosevelt gave this watch — offered in New York on 6 December — to her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, on their wedding day
A special sale in Hong Kong that embarks on an artistic journey from Su Shi through a millennium of Chinese history
Specialist Sophia Zhou on an album of rare fan-leaf paintings by some of the greatest names in the history of Chinese art
A guide to the Chinese artist who was a peer of Wu Guanzhong and Zao Wou-Ki, and celebrated for his elegiac paintings that reconfigured Western abstraction
The story of a pivotal work from 1962 that links the artist and different members of the de Menil family. On 15 November it achieved $35,712,500 in New York
Why this 18.96-carat Fancy Vivid Pink diamond, which was promptly renamed The Winston Pink Legacy, sold for CHF50,375,000 in Geneva
New world auction records set for Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning and many more as The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection totals $323.1 million
From Colorado to Chianti in Italy, 5 luxury properties where you can savour the passing of every hour — all from Christie’s International Real Estate
Old Masters specialist Jonquil O’Reilly illuminates the story behind Anthony van Dyck’s sumptuous Portrait of Princess Mary, Daughter of King Charles I of England
The designer and co-founder of Maximalist Studios creates room sets incorporating pieces from our December Interiors sale
As this rare Bulgari Fancy Vivid Blue diamond ring comes to auction in New York, we investigate these natural wonders of the super-deep
An introduction to the art produced across a period of 330 years, with expert insights from leading collectors
Alastair Smart and Virgilio Garza look at the life and art of the great modernist, and arguably Mexico’s finest painter
Highlights from the R. Eden Martin Collection features extraordinary first editions and manuscripts by the likes of Pasternak, Pushkin, Bulgakov and Tolstoy
The 1929 masterpiece became the most expensive work of pre-war American art when it sold for $91,875,000 (including buyer’s premium) on 13 November