London braces for "billion dollar" art auction week
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A series of art auctions kick off in London on Monday with the prospect of collectors parting with up to $1 billion in a five-day spending spree.
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Artworks from the formative period of John Constable's career are to go on sale in London.
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Policy review says Britain may be about to produce 'the greatest art yet created'
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The record price for a painting by contemporary British artist David Hockney was smashed again after one of his most familiar works fetched 2.6 million pounds (3.8 million euros, 4.8 million dollars) at a London auction.
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A collection of watercolours by JMW Turner fetch Â£10.6m at an auction in London.
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A rediscovered masterpiece by Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele was to go under sale in a highly anticipated auction Tuesday, a highlight of a bumper week in the buoyant London art market.
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A leading art collector has left 18 paintings by artists including Claude Monet, Francis Bacon and Paul Gauguin to two of London's top galleries, they said Monday.
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A major loan exhibition of Berniniâs sculptures, paintings and drawings is headed for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles this summer.
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In pictures: Catch a preview of the new London show featuring over 60 pieces by the urban artist
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An exhibition of art treasures which was almost prevented from going ahead opens its doors in London.
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An online auction for a Banksy painting on a wall in west London closes with a final bid of Â£208,100.
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ChristieÂs opened its week of art auctions in Hong Kong by realizing a record-breaking $67.9 million in its sales of Asian contemporary and Chinese 20th-century art.
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A portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his best friends is on display in London ahead of its sale at auction.
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Russian authorities say a cancelled London exhibition of major Russian and French artworks should now go ahead.
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Art collectors, sensing that the market, may soon reach its peak have consigned hundreds of millions of dollarsÂ worth of works for November sales.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - In what could be the most valuable sale they have ever staged in Europe, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday they expect to raise more than 100 million pounds ($195 million) from an Impressionists' auction next week.
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The Tate Gallery in London is expecting huge crowds for its joint Turner Whistler Monet exhibition.