Pre-1800 painting and works on paper, where attribution and scholarship determine value more than fashion.
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Work from 1945 to now — the most actively traded category at auction, and the one where estimates move fastest.
Early- and mid-twentieth-century painting and sculpture, where condition and exhibition history carry unusual weight.
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, a market that rewards impeccable provenance above almost everything else.
Pre-1800 painting and works on paper, where attribution and scholarship determine value more than fashion.
Vintage and contemporary photography, where print date, edition and printer matter as much as the image.
Banksy and the wider urban contemporary market, where authentication paperwork is often half the value.
Claude Monet's Iris, a late Giverny painting never shown in public, sold for €50 million at Sotheby's Paris on 22 October, the highest price ever paid at auction in France, in a Schlumberger collection sale that made €74.4 million.
The results of Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips' October evening sales in London: a restituted Kandinsky at £31.6 million, Mondrian's Composition III, a European record for de Kooning, and the works that did not sell.
After Streak 2 set a £5.2 million record in October, a guide to Bridget Riley's paintings on board, canvas and linen: how her studio makes them, how they changed from the 1960s to the 2000s, and how to tell a painting from a study or a print.
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