Alex Capon

Billed as “an audacious piece of performance art”, although viewed by others as a specious publicity stunt, Banksy’s shredded painting ‘Love is in the Bin’ is returning to Sotheby’s.

Sotheby’s is staging a dedicated sale of 55 works from the collection of the late New York art dealer Richard L Feigen (1930-2021).

Sotheby’s has tweaked its sales categories for its flagship modern art auctions and will apply the changes at its New York series in November.

One of the highest prices for a work on paper by Gerald Leslie Brockhurst was set at South London saleroom Roseberys when a portrait of the model Kathleen Woodward, later the artist’s second wife, drew strong demand.

Bonhams has acquired US auction house Skinner in a purchase that comes only two months after it bought Swedish saleroom Bukowskis.

Welsh auction house Rogers Jones has been instructed to sell the rugby jersey collection of Sir Gareth Edwards.

The market for ‘after’ or ‘attributed to’ works is often rather unpredictable. While some works will inevitably fall flat at auction, others sometimes take off.