An Intriguing Renaissance Holy Family at Bonhams Paris
An unusually accomplished sixteenth-century Holy Family, attributed to Giovanni Battista Ramenghi, is among the more intriguing works in Bonhams' forthcoming Old Master sale in Paris.
Art market
Sales, collections and the journeys works of art take through the market.
A new test for Uglow at Bonhams
Palm Tree follows a record £793,600 sale at Christie’s, while a substantial group of Lowrys arrives as MK Gallery opens its reassessment of the painter.
Christie’s sets its sights on a new Kandinsky record
Estimated at $60m-$80m, Betonte Ecken comes to New York with a Guggenheim provenance and a reported third-party guarantee.
Early Vanessa Bell of Virginia Woolf brings £57,600 at Christie’s
Offered without reserve, a small family scene drew attention to a scarce surviving work from Bell’s formative years.
From Stanley Spencer to Van Dyck and Brueghel: Frieze Masters 2026 Opens in London
Frieze Masters returns to Regent’s Park on 14 October, bringing together more than 140 international galleries. Among the highlights are an exceptional Stanley Spencer at Offer Waterman, a monumental Van Dyck at Colnaghi and a magnificent Jan Brueghel the Elder still life with a remarkable history.
An embarrassment of riches: Christie’s tightens its grip on the Modern British market
An extraordinary concentration of masterpieces by Hepworth, Nicholson, Lanyon, Bomberg and Auerbach makes Christie’s forthcoming October auctions a feast for collectors. Sotheby’s comparatively modest offering raises a wider question: has Christie’s dominance of the Modern British market become self-perpetuating?
Giordano’s Massacre of the Innocents stands out in Dorotheum’s October Old Masters sale
The newly published catalogue for the Vienna auction on 21 October includes an impressive Luca Giordano and a newly attributed Saint Jerome by Hendrick de Somer.
Hepworth’s Sculpture with Colour (Eos) returns to auction following landmark Courtauld exhibition
Barbara Hepworth’s remarkable 1946 stone carving, Sculpture with Colour (Eos), is returning to Christie’s a decade after achieving $5.43 million in New York. Recently exhibited in the Courtauld Gallery’s acclaimed Hepworth in Colour exhibition, the work will be among the highlights of Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on 21 October 2026.
Another Hepworth Orpheus Comes to Auction Following £952,900 Bonhams Sale
Barbara Hepworth’s Orpheus (Maquette I) returns to the auction market at Christie’s this October, offering a fresh test of demand for one of the sculptor’s most distinctive works of the 1950s.
1960 Hepworth leads Sotheby's Modern British sale
20cm wide white alabaster carved by Barbara Hepworth estimated between £600-800,000 guaranteed with an irrevocable bid.
Peter Lanyon’s Cloud Base leads our picks from the Peter Simon collection
An rare early Ben Nicholson relief, an early carved Hepworth torso, Bomberg’s sensational Toledo and an Auerbach charcoal head give Christie’s October sale an exceptionally strong British contingent.
Christie’s to offer Bada Shanren’s 1699 Flowers and Birds album in Hong Kong
The twelve-leaf album is estimated at HK$12m-18m. Its sale follows a Nanchang exhibition marking 400 years since the painter’s birth.
John Nash’s Boxted landscape heads to auction in Yorkshire
A mill-pool painting from Humphrey Boyle’s collection brings a Royal Academy exhibition history to Tennants, with an estimate of £30,000-£50,000.
An early Giacometti leads Herbert Lust’s collection at Christie’s
The US$20m-30m bronze anchors November’s sale. New reporting separates Lust’s friendship with the artist from this particular work’s ownership history.
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Fragonard makes €10.6 million in Paris, but its destination remains unknown
Fragonard and Watteau accounted for more than half of the Patiño evening sale. The results leave open the public-access question raised before the auction.