A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of ...

Sotheby's is putting some rare items up for auction, including what it calls the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth.

Grande tête mince” — a bronze sculpture by Alberto Giacometti — failed to meet expectations at a recent Sotheby’s auction.

The very first auction that Christie’s conducted, back in London in 1766, was a single-owner collection sale of objects only identified as “the property of a Noble Personage (Deceas’d).” Presumably, ...

A private collector from Japan bought the prototype made for and owned by Jane Birkin.

Lauren Sánchez was the losing bidder for the original Hermès Birkin bag, which sold to a Japanese collector for a ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological ...

The well-worn prototype crushed the old record for the highest sale of a handbag, and became the second most expensive fashion item ever auctioned.

A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...

The sale now holds three titles: the most valuable handbag ever sold at auction, the new record for fashion item sold in ...

The winning bid for the original Birkin bag set a record for the most valuable handbag ever sold at auction, Sotheby's said.