Auctions

A new auction record for a drawing by Rembrandt has been established with the portrait of a lion, sold in recent months by Sotheby's New York.

When a fragment of a painting becomes an independent work, finding its own success on the art market.

The astounding results recorded in three different marvels: a painting by Canaletto, a mirror by Claude Lalanne and a book by Galileo Galilei.

Often the hidden face of a painting, its back or its verso, tells more secrets than the face on display.

The portrait of Dr. Boucard, Tamara de Lempicka’s main patron, sold at Christie’s for over six million pounds.

For ten years, from 1643 to 1653, the Flemish Michiel Sweerts from Brussels lived in Rome, depicting its popular life.

You can find many things at London bus stops: umbrellas, watches, and so on. More rarely, masterpieces by Titian in plastic envelopes.

The recent success at auction of the works of Lavinia Fontana, a painter from Bologna who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries.

Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, who painted Marie Antoinette and the high society of the time, in a self-portrait auctioned by Sotheby's.

The most recent "apparitions" of previously unseen paintings by Rembrandt and their adventures on the art market.

A second signed version of Pieter Paul Rubens' St Sebastian, recently auctioned off at Sotheby's.

It may seem easy, but not everyone can raise the bar: only the stars know how, in sports as on the art market.

The prestigious sale of Pierre de Crombruggh's library; his lifelong devotion had been collecting printed works on culinary art.

"Sleepers": artworks, unknown masterpieces, awaiting recognition by the Connoisseur so as to be valued as they deserve.

The record sale of Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin's Basket of Wild Strawberries, at auction in Paris.

At auction at Sotheby's, the soup tureen from the legendary silver set commissioned by Catherine II for her lover, Count Orlov.

Sublimely enigmatic, the Mona Lisa is one of the most-imitated works in history. But how much are these copies worth on today's art market?

The records at auction of paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi and Fede Galizia, as told by Simone Facchinetti.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Autumn set a record at auction for the Baroque maestro. Massimo Navoni speaks of it.