An Old Master painting looted by the Nazis but then saved by the Monuments Men has raked in an impressive £436,000 at auction. The early 18th century work by Nicolas de Largillierre, titled ...

Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ‘‘explosion of buying.” Under the radar, he amassed old masters, ...

Perhaps most tantalisingly of all, could it be an almost 400-year-old masterpiece ... an art specialist at Bonhams. “It is just hard to find one that is the hand of the master and not the ...

Spanning six centuries of European art, the December Old Master Part I auction will include a rich array of masterworks. Leading the sale is a striking picture of an Andalusian stallion by Anthony van ...

A pair of portraits by Johann Joseph Zoffany, Flower Girl and Watercress Girl, sold for £991,000 ($1.3 million) at Bonhams Old Master paintings sale on December 4, far exceeding its £300,000 ...

Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. At Sotheby's Old Masters and 19th ...

The more international auction houses lean into luxury and contemporary art, the more Old Masters are in danger of looking like an archaic outlier. Yet London’s latest series of sales showed ...