Art Basel Paris reported $147 million in early sales before cancelling its public weekend, and some dealers began packing up before the fair even closed news.artnet.com/market/art-b…

Van Gogh's "Blossoming Chestnut Trees," heading to Sotheby's New York in November with a $180 million estimate, was once owned by early collector Gustave Fayet, now the subject of a Fondation Louis Vuitton show theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée Picasso and other Paris institutions are closing on Saturday as a precaution against protests theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

Christie's Durand-Ruel sale made €41.6 million, near the top of its estimate, led by Monet's "Bord des falaises à Pourville" at €12.7 million, on the same night Monet's "Iris" made €50 million at Sotheby's cp24.com/news/world/2026/10/…

Art Basel Paris's two preview days brought strong, if not record-breaking, sales, but could the organisers be "even more radical"? ocula.com/magazine/art-news/…

Dealers are scrambling to reschedule shipping and decide whether to pack up early after the surprise announcement, with smaller galleries hit hardest artnews.com/art-news/market/…

Art Basel Paris will close two days early, at 7 p.m. Friday, with demonstrations in Paris expected to resume this weekend theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

Monet's never-exhibited "Iris" sold for €50 million ($56.2 million) after a 45-minute bidding battle at Sotheby's Paris, the most ever paid for an artwork at auction in France, as the Schlumberger collection sold 100% for €74.4 million artnews.com/art-news/market/…

Seven- and eight-figure works sold over the first two preview days of Art Basel Paris, despite anti-ram barriers, guard dogs and rioting across the city theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

Every reported $1 million-plus sale at Art Basel Paris so far, led by a Richter and a Baselitz at Hauser & Wirth for about $10 million each artnews.com/art-news/market/…

How do we protect artists when their gallery goes bust? An op-ed in The Art Newspaper on gallery insolvency theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

Lawsuits and a family feud dating to the Second World War are keeping Klimt's portrait of Fräulein Lieser off the market theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

All six of Edward Hopper's early oils, long thought to be originals, turn out to be copies, according to a new Hopper biography theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

After a week of protests across France, Art Basel Paris opened to its top VIPs under heavier security, and dealers seemed undeterred ocula.com/magazine/art-news/…

Nearly 90% of artworks resold at London's October evening auctions made a positive return, with long-held Modern and Post-War works performing best. Our analysis of 39 repeat sales at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips: arttactic.com/reports/resale…

Art Basel Paris opened its invitation-only Avant-Première with steady sales, including a Richter for about $10 million, while a $100 million Modigliani at Pace Di Donna Schrader stole the show artnews.com/art-news/market/…

Art doesn't behave like other commodities, so why is it being priced like one? theartnewspaper.com/2026/10/…

What sold at Frieze London and Frieze Masters, which drew 95,000 visitors and representatives from a record 426 institutions artsy.net/article/artsy-edit…

About 50 arts students blocked the Louvre's pyramid entrance and shut the museum, as Art Basel Paris pledged to go ahead despite a weekend of unrest artnews.com/art-news/news/lo…

Issy Wood's self-portraits at the National Portrait Gallery are a suffocatingly revealing look at the painter, writes the Guardian theguardian.com/artanddesign…