Francis Bacon triptych of the artist’s favorite female model, “Three Studies of Isabel Rawsthorne,” sell at Sotheby's London for $17.3 million.

Wall Street analysts expect auction house Sotheby’s to report a third-quarter loss of 47 cents a share on revenue of $70.3 million, little changed from a year earlier. 

Auction house reports a smaller-than-expected third-quarter loss of 44 cents a share on revenue up 58% at $107.9 million.

Hedge fund billionaire and active art collector put his largest single group of works under the hammer at this week's contemporary art auctions at Sotheby's and Christie's in New York.

Two-bottle lot of World War 1 Moet & Chandon from the champagne house's own cellars part of sale to mark Moet's 270th anniversary.

Tobias Meyer seen as casualty in war between auction house and arch-rival Christie's to land high-profile consignments to sell.

A Sotheby’s auction curated by Apple's Jony Ive and fellow designer Marc Newson raises $26 million for U2 musician Bono’s Global Fund to fight AIDs in Africa. 

Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-ki’s "Abstraction" sets auction record for the artist.