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The art market

July 2024

  • Orlando Whitfield

    Today in Focus
    Inside the biggest art fraud in US history - podcast

    Orlando Whitfield, the author of All That Glitters, on his years of friendship with the art fraudster Inigo Philbrick

June 2024

  • Orlando Whitfield for Guardian Saturday<br>FIRST USE SAT MAGAZINE - Do not use elsewhere before 20 Apr 2024. Orlando Whitfield shot in London for Guardian Saturday

    All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield review – how to make an exhibition of yourself

    The former best friend of convicted fraudster Inigo Philbrick turns the exciting world of art into a series of gauche boasts in this story of their career as dealers

March 2024

  • Damien Hirst smiling in front of the shark sculpture during a party at the Palms casino resort in Las Vegas

    Damien Hirst shark that sold for about $8m is fourth 2017 work dated to 1990s

    Exclusive: Sculpture bought by US billionaires was made almost 20 years after date that appears in its name

January 2024

  • Savior of the World (Latin Salvator Mundi), an oil panel painted by artist Leonardo da Vinci

    Russian billionaire loses Sotheby’s fraud case over artworks including Salvator Mundi

    Oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev had accused Sotheby’s of conspiring with dealer over pieces including Salvator Mundi, which later became the most expensive art sold at auction
  • Pablo Picasso's Femme à la montre painting with a man holding up his gloved hand in the foreground

    Near-record $7.9bn in sales marks second strong year in row for Sotheby’s

    Series of ‘extraordinary collections’ ensures New York-based auction house comes close to highs of 2022
  • Dmitry Rybolovlev in the stands during an AS Monaco football match.

    Russian oligarch sues Sotheby’s for ‘helping art dealer trick him into overpaying’

    Russian oligarch to claim British auction house inflated estimated value of artworks he was interested in buying

November 2023

  • Untitled still life by Clara Peeters

    Still life by long-forgotten painter Clara Peeters could fetch £700,000

  • A Sotheby's employee raises a white-gloved hand while standing beside the painting

    Picasso painting of his ‘golden muse’ sells for $139.4m in New York

  • On display at Sotheby's New York, the Femme a la Montre (1932) painting by Pablo Picasso

    Picasso masterpiece kicks off auction season forecast to sell $2.5bn in art

  • The IJ River

    Man arrested over 2013 killing of Russian art dealer in Amsterdam

August 2023

  • The British Museum interior, London

    British Museum must list missing objects so antiquities dealers can help

    Letter: Ivan Macquisten of the Antiquities Dealers’ Association says the trade is highly alert to red flags and has an interest in keeping the market clean
  • Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi

    Ukraine creates database of art linked to sanctions-hit Russians

    Corruption agency hopes portal will ‘make it difficult for Russian oligarchs to sell such assets’
  • An attendee at the Milan autumn-winter menswear show 2023 in Jimmy Lion x Basquiat socks

    Sex toys, rugs and Barbie dolls: does posthumous use of artists’ work risk cheapening their legacies?

    Brands love to use the work of late, great artists just as much as late, great artists’ estates like to cash in. But that hasn’t stopped a slew of Succession-size squabbles

June 2023

  • A Tudor signet ring that was put up for sale in London, having been stolen in 2021.

    Auction houses and dealers failing to cooperate with investigators over stolen items, says expert

    Specialist in recovery of missing and looted art and antiques accuses businesses of protecting commissions and fees ahead of restoring legal ownership

February 2023

  • Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam! at the Tate Modern in London.

    Art fraudster jailed for trying to sell 15 forgeries at Madrid auction house

    Fake works linked to Guillermo CT include forgeries of Munch, Lichtenstein, Chillida and Guerrero

January 2023

  • The Giacometti chandelier pictured in the Hampstead home of John Craxton in 2007.

    Rare Giacometti chandelier bought for £250 in London set to sell for millions

    Piece acquired by English painter in antiques shop in 1960s has been confirmed as lost work by Swiss sculptor

December 2022

  • Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn auctioned by Christie’s. It sold for $195m.

    Auction houses celebrate bumper year of blockbuster art sales

    Deaths and divorces of major collectors fuel record £14.3bn in sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips

October 2022

  • Bold, orange, funny and meaningless … Anthea Hamilton’s sculptures, which you can get your picture taken with.

    ‘Pose with the pumpkins? I’d rather meet the meteorite’ – Frieze art fair review

    Painting is back in vogue at the giant art fair. But it’s superficial and silly rather than sleazy and shocking. The Masters section is where the work to lust over is – with an actual space rock for sale

August 2022

  • Twisted firestarters … A torched effigy at Burning Man festival.

    Flaming heck! Damien Hirst is setting his art on fire – and he’s not the first

  • Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 by Georgia O’Keeffe on display at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland.

    The perils of living in a man’s world

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