My heart-stopping research saga to find out if Dorotheum’s part-painted cartoon by a "follower" was in fact a sleeper

After seven years of investigations, Ruffini has been handed over to French authorities, likely setting the stage for a trial in Paris

Nonetheless, buoyed by the Grasset collection, Sotheby's posted its best results in six seasons and Christie's sale was up 26% up on last December

Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention

Dated to a century after Leonardo's death, the work does not come from the artist's studio

Plus, a Modernist landscape by Ferdinand Hodler and a sumptuous Old Masters Madonna

Painstaking restoration of Italian master’s revered painting reveals its full glory once more

Martin Clayton, the Royal Collection Trust's head of prints and drawings presented his research at a major conference in Leipzig

The French dealer, who is under investigation for selling a series of allegedly forged paintings, has had a warrant out for his arrest since 2019

At the record-breaking sale at Christie's New York on 15 November 2017, the audience gasped and whooped as if they were at a very exclusive firework display

The work, housed at The Hague's Museum Bredius, will now undergo further study by Rijksmuseum experts

Plus, a horror show in London and a Flemish masterpiece in Bruges

Ten works from the collection of Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson will be on offer during the Master’s Week sales in January

The work, which could become the second-most expensive by the painter at auction, failed to sell in 1998

Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York

Georgina Adam and Mark Hollingsworth investigate a troubling case of serial reattributions, showing how easily scholarly “opinion” translates into financial fact

Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals

Dealers say that the two-year gap between the Dutch fair's editions has helped galleries to bring higher quality works

The author explains why his new coming-of-age novel is set against the backdrop of the 1990s art world and what drew him to the paintings of the titular Tiepolo

An unattributed painting in Lincolnshire's Burghley House bears a striking resemblance to the work of Hans Eworth

Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi

Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery

Formerly attributed to “the school of Michelangelo”, experts now say the nude sketch is by the master's own hand

The French museum is now seeking funds to buy the still-life painting, which was sold last week by Artcurial to a US dealer for €24.3m

Delayed anniversary show of the Old Master at London's National Gallery will take things back to basics, allowing visitors to see the artist’s genius afresh

The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years

Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution

The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution