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Judging by the overall totals, the latest Modern and Contemporary art auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips in New York were something of a bump back to reality after the last two sales series posted the highest grossing totals on record.

Christie’s first major auction series since raising its buyer’s premium last month kicked off in New York offering Impressionist and Modern art.

Following the sales series last October, Christie’s will offer a second instalment of works from the Ann and Gordon Getty collection in June.

François Pierre de la Varenne (1618-78) is the chef credited with bringing French cuisine into the modern era.

A six-figure sum for Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff was the top lot of Christie’s drawing-focused sale.

Christie’s holds its annual dedicated drawings sale in Paris on March 22, the same day that the Salon du Dessin opens.

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The overall total raised at the latest round of Modern and Contemporary art sales in London was boosted by a couple of recently restituted pictures.

Hugo Morley-Fletcher has died aged 82. The former director of Christie’s, appointed aged 29 as head of the ceramics department, he was also an early and long-running member of television’s Antiques Roadshow, an author, father, gardener and horseman.

Extraordinary letter by Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist both commends and condemns a colleague

Hefty estimates and guarantees suggest a fierce competition in the market when seeking consignments

The fact that Christie’s held a full series of Old Masters auctions in New York at the start of 2023 not only boosted the overall total for the January series but also added to the amount of activity in this sector generally at this key time.

The completion of the US transcontinental railroad in 1869 was the marvel of its age.

Two important Mannerist bronzes were bought by museums when a New York private collection was sold in Manhattan last month.

A painting by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) from the collection of the divorcing couple Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson led the latest series of Old Master sales in New York.