LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Sotheby's will auction a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot worth around $1.5 million after it was returned to the heirs of the original owners, Jewish bankers forced to flee Europe in World War Two. "Jeune femme a la fontaine," which the auctioneer said ranked among the French artist's finest figure paintings of the 1860s and ...

HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Chinese collectors still have an appetite for classical Chinese art, jewels and rare artifacts, auction house Sotheby's said as it revealed the line-up of its Hong Kong sales, expected to net $221 million dollars. With some once red-hot segments of the Chinese art market, including Chinese contemporary art, still wounded by the financial downturn, more ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An auction at Sotheby's of more than 160 works of post-war and contemporary art from the Peter Stuyvesant Collection exceeded all expectations on Monday, raising a record 13.6 million euros ($18.6 million). The works on offer in Amsterdam were the property of British American Tobacco The Netherlands and formed the largest collection of such art ...