Explore timeless classics that define modern French elegance with over 300 YSL designs from Catherine Deneuve’s personal collection
Over 45 years, the London-based dealer has made his name as a purveyor of eclectic objects from an array of world cultures and historical periods
Thomas Girtin, who died aged just 27, was a friend of J.M.W. Turner — and regarded by many as more gifted. Specialist Harriet Drummond tells us why
Specialist Furio Rinaldi admires this rediscovered work by the 16th-century Italian artist, which scholars had long presumed lost
Why John Hays thinks George Washington may have once sat on this recently rediscovered chair, made in Philadelphia circa 1750
We reveal the inspiration behind Les Grandes Décorations, the most radical works of the great Impressionist’s career
As the French actor’s wardrobe of Yves Saint Laurent pieces comes to auction in Paris, Meredith Etherington-Smith looks at their long and close relationship
The Peaceable Kingdom paintings by Edward Hicks are among the most widely celebrated icons of American folk art today — and this one has an intriguing detail
A guide to the rebellious co-founder of avant-garde artists’ group Les Nabis
Highlights owned by the respected American art dealer include early Italian and Baroque paintings and 18th-century British landscapes
Harry Williams-Bulkeley on everything from cutlery to candelabras and sourcing that show-stopping centrepiece
American Folk and Outsider Art specialist Cara Zimmerman profiles the artists aspiring collectors should know about
The story behind a double portrait from the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection that’s being offered in London in March
Kept under wraps for almost a century, this superb collection came into the light with its sale at Christie’s in Paris on 30 October
The theoretical physicist’s PhD thesis, key papers, wheelchair and more were offered in a special online sale at Christie’s
Einstein’s ‘God letter’, his single most famous letter on God, Judaism, and man’s eternal search for meaning, which sold for a record $2,892,500 on 4 December
Found in a sealed compartment in the cellars of the Liberty Hall Museum in New Jersey, Madeira from 1796 — and in the attic, demijohns from the 1820s
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
AI artwork sells for $432,500 — nearly 45 times its high estimate — as Christie’s becomes first auction house to offer a work created by an algorithm
Meredith Etherington-Smith salutes three generations of collectors from one family, whose collection was sold in Paris in September
Francis Bacon's poignant celebration of George Dyer, the artist’s most important subject, starred in our Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale on 17 May
Why was the art of the ancient Mezcala civilisation so fascinating to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Ilya Prigogine?
The work from The Collection of Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass led Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale on 20 June in London
Acquired directly from Brancusi, this unique portrait of Nancy Cunard comes to auction for the very first time on 15 May
Harry Williams-Bulkeley, Christie's European Head of Silver, explains what makes this Dutch Golden Age silver ewer so extraordinary
Sold in May, a 1916 canvas that was included in every major survey of Malevich’s Suprematist works during his lifetime, and which revolutionised modern art
This exceptional example of the most valuable illustrated book ever produced — and an icon of American art — was sold on 14 June to benefit conservation causes
An April Christie's auctioned an important and long-lost portrait work by Lucas Cranach the Elder that had been recently returned to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann
Highlights from Adventurous Spirit, a private collection sold across two auctions in December and February to benefit a charitable foundation
Tryggve Gran’s remarkable Polar journals transport us back to 1912 and a tent containing Captain Scott’s frozen remains