Announced last week, cosmetic magnate Leonard Lauder’s extraordinary gift of 78 Cubist works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art instantly Read more…

After a Gambling Indictment, Is It Business As Usual? In April, 34 people were charged with illegal gambling activity in Read more…

NEW YORK — In a dud of an evening sale and that was especially disappointing in its role as a Read more…

Fed by a trove of art-rich estates, Christie’s and Sotheby’s start the auction season stuffed with high-priced offerings. Over the Read more…

In a stinging blow to art market expectations for a recovery, Sotheby’s tonight registered its highest rate of unsold works Read more…

For 60 years, its whereabouts were unknown, its very existence in doubt. But last November, “The Marriage of Pierrette,” Pablo Read more…

Self-Portrait From 1905 to Be Auctioned A spectacular Picasso bistro painting from 1905, showing the brooding 25-year-old artist in a Read more…

Pablo Picasso’s haunting double portrait in watercolor, “Acrobat and Young Harlequin,” sold at Christie’s London showroom last night for a Read more…

NEW YORK— During his life-time, Pablo Picasso filled 175 sketchbooks, recording in meticulous detail a vast encyclopedia of images and Read more…