Highlighting the works in the auction by Damien Hirst (b. 1965) is Retribution, which he produced in 2006. Estimate: £450,000-650,000. Photo: Sotheby’s.

On Friday, October 16, 2009, Sotheby’s London will present its October Contemporary Art Auction, which will include for the first time a section of Arab and Iranian Art. The 177 lot sale will comprise works, in a range of media, by {...}

Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction took place this evening and realised £19,063,350 $31,778,604 €22,513,816 selling 88% by lot and 86% by value.

The top price was paid for Night Playground by Peter Doig (b.1959), 1997/98, an exemplary large scale painting described by the artist as one of his own favourites. It was offered at auction for {...}

Byron Kim, Synecdoche 1991 © Courtesy of Max Protetch Gallery.

At a time of unprecedented interest in the role of colour in graphic design, fashion and interior design, Tate Liverpool will be presenting Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today. The exhibition looks at the shifting moment in twentieth-century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as ‘readymade’ {...}

Artprice’s TOP 10 ranking: the art market heavyweights in 2008
Every year Artprice publishes its ranking of artists based on auction revenue. At the end of 2007 the figures were remarkable: the market’s Top 10 had generated a combined total of $1.8bn, up no less than 50% on the previous year’s total. In 2008 the total was $100m lower than {...}

Lesende By Gerhard Richter, 1994. Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, purchase through the gifts of Mimi and Peter Haasand Helen and Charles Schwab, and the Accessions Committee Fund. Copyright: Gerhard Richter, 2009
A groundbreaking exhibition devoted to one of the greatest living painters opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 26 February 2009. Gerhard Richter {...}