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
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
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
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’
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
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 Art Deco jewellery designer was celebrated for her avant-garde brilliance, yet her success was tarnished by tragedy
As works by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Jan Breughel the Elder and Jan Breughel the Younger comes to auction, we unpick art history’s most tangled family tree
Expert insights on an artist who arrived in the second wave of Pre-Raphaelites, and who sought to re-enchant a wearied world
From industrial landscapes to desert vistas via Paris and abstraction, illustrated with works from The Barney A. Ebsworth Collection and our American Art sale
If the Grandes Décorations represent the peak of Monet’s career, Le bassin aux nymphéas is a vital stage in their evolution
An expert guide to the British artist best known for his depiction of horses, but also a skilled portraitist. Illustrated with works offered in November and December
Three object-filled boxes and one collage invite the viewer to step into the artist’s magical, slightly mysterious universe
In the latter years of her life Georgia O’Keeffe and Barney A. Ebsworth became friends. Two O'Keeffe works from Ebsworth’s collection are offered in November
Study of Henrietta Moraes Laughing, Francis Bacon’s final named portrait of the muse he painted between 1959 and 1969, realises $21,687,500
Ocean Park #137 — a monumental late work from the series inspired by the light and landscape of southern California — realises $21,687,500 in New York
The competitive but loving bond between the two artists is explored in Alberto and Diego Giacometti: Masters of Design
A guide to arguably South America’s most famous artist, whose work addresses everything from domestic life to bullfighting
Meredith Etherington-Smith tells the stories of two pieces by Eric Gill and Duncan Grant that connect the Bloomsbury Group, the Keynes family and George Mallory
In the 70th year since its founding, we look back on the movement’s brief, furious life. In November, works by the group will be offered in Amsterdam
An introduction to the American great who began ‘drawing in space’ before changing our world with his invention of the mobile
Known for his exquisite shadow boxes filled with ephemera, Joseph Cornell experimented extensively in a career that brushed against both Surrealism and Pop Art
A closer look at the life, loves and landscapes of the ‘mother of American modernism’
We visit the artist in Tokyo, where he discusses his celebrated images of old American movie theatres
This intimate masterpiece was for many years unattributed, until an art historian’s powers of recall solved its mystery in the late 1970s
Kept under wraps for almost a century, this superb collection comes into the light with its sale at Christie’s in Paris on 30 October
The Gutai group was a collective of experimental performance and multimedia artists whose influence on contemporary art is only now being recognised
Ahead of Christie’s inaugural European Paintings auction on 31 October, Arne Everwijn discusses Courbet’s radical nudes