Irish art works from Michael Smurfit’s collection for auction at Sotheby’s

Retired businessman says climate of Spanish home not suited to works of Irish artists

Welcome to my place ... Chur, Switzerland

Anna Lardi Fogarty shares her suggestions for woodland walks, medieval buildings and fine local wines in her hometown

Giacometti sketch a highlight of Cavan auction

Works by Schiele and ‘possibly’ Miró sell for modest sums

Robert Doisneau: the humanist photographer who loved Paris

Artist’s work reminds us how much our world has changed and forms a tender memory of a romantic Paris

Picasso’s lady in a beret makes €56.7m

In Dublin, classic west of Ireland landscape makes €80k

Picasso painting expected to fetch £35m (€39.5m) at Impressionist and Modern sale at Sotheby’s

Auctions & Fairs: At Christies‘Dans les coulisses’ by Edgar Degas on sale for between £8-£12 million

Final Portrait review: rich detail from the life of Giacometti

Stanley Tucci’s study of the Swiss artist is a rhapsody to bohemian Paris in the 1960s

The best films to see in the cinema in August

Kathryn Bigelow gets controversial in ‘Detroit’. Domhnall Gleeson looks cool in ‘American Made’

New world record for Giacometti sculpture likely

‘Stick man’ bronze estimated by Christie’s at $130m

Was sculptor Gerda Frömel too subtle for success?

The nuanced, neglected work of the Czech-born artist, who made her home in Ireland, gets an outing in an Imma retrospective

Vera Klute studies the human animal in its natural habitat

The German-born artist’s exceptional show is disturbing and even slightly creepy

Auction Results

Defining figure in Irish art for 70 years

Patrick Scott: January 24th, 1921 - February 14th, 2014

Super-rich ditch posh boutiques for modern art

Top London auction houses report record sales for modern and impressionist art