A collection of first-edition books, described as the greatest of its kind, is estimated to sell for between £8m and £15m at auction later this year.

A collection of prints by Pablo Picasso is expected to fetch around £2.5 million when they are auctioned later this year.

Four “important works” by L.S Lowry are among a collection of 20th Century British artwork due to be auctioned next Wednesday.

The Brooklyn town house where Truman Capote wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and other notable works is on sale for $18 million.

A US State Department spokesman confirmed that a 25-year-old American woman was killed by a crocodile while snorkelling in India's Andaman Islands last month.

A 1932 Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress has sold for $106.5 million (£70 million), a world record price for any work of art at auction.

A collection of Roman sculptures that was due to be sold at Bonhams auction house in London yesterday has been withdrawn amid concerns that the statues may have originally been illegally excavated.

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An alcoholic art dealer has a dangerous affair

A rare internally flawless blue diamond is expected to fetch up to £3.8 million when it is sold at auction next month.

Sketch was considered too risqué for Victorian standards of morality

A self-portrait of Lucian Freud nursing a black eye after a punch-up with a taxi driver sold for more than £2.8 million when it went under the hammer.

It is not in the least surprising that a figure of a walking man by Alberto Giacometti should have broken auction records for 20th-century art at Sotheby's. Giacometti was a giant of 20th-century art. It was just a matter of time before the collectors noticed.

The turning point that Britain’s ailing art market had been praying for seems to have arrived, at long last.