Good morning! @AuctionMillon knocked down €4+M for a drawing by Daniele da Volterra, crushing its €400,000/500,000 estimate. Previously attributed to Andrea del Sarto, the work is a preparatory for the fresco in Lucrezia della Rovere Chapel at Trinità-dei Monti in Rome.

Paris the Capital of Haute Couture, at its Special Museum We recently sat down with Émilie Hammen who now sits at the Helm of @PalaisGalliera to discuss her vision and plans for Parisian museum dedicated to #fashion Learn more https://t.co/etvlFCffiY

How about some bling bling to ring in the New Year! Looks like someone is going to need sunglasses in the presence of this yellow diamond!

Daros Collection Heads to Bellas Artes, Doubling its Latin American Art Collections @BellasArtesAR welcomes the collection assembled by the eponymous Swiss foundation of Stephan & Ruth Schmidheiny, which features works by 117 artists (including Frida Kahlo)

The Orsay and Orangerie Museums Announce Exhibitions for 2026 At Orsay, Renoir (March), Mary Cassatt (Fall) & Bartholdi share the spotlight, with contemporary art by Larissa Fassler, Youssef Nabil & Jenny Holzer. At Orangerie, Rousseau (March), Monet (Fall) & Alexandre Lenoir

Good morning! Let’s change the speed… ‘Le Changement de Vitesse’ (1951) by the poetic & enigmatic René Magritte spoke collectors at a recent auction fetching a respectable €343,300. It was published in the Surrealist magazine Vendredi, by Belgian artist Paul Colinet.

Please Don’t Leave! UK places export ban on the Union Flag that flew from the Royal Sovereign, the ship that led Admiral Horatio Nelson’s fleet in the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar in the Napoleonic Wars. Valued at £400,000 the flag features the scars of battle.

This trompe l'oeil created by Gabriel-Germain Joncherie in 1817 combines virtuosity and political commentary. Did you know that the first recorded use of the word ‘trompe l’œil’ was during the Salon of 1800. Find this treasure at auction tomorrow: https://t.co/ooGjf0iLQK

The Colosseo-Fori Imperiali metro station, a veritable underground archaeological museum, opens in Rome After 13 years of construction work the station now offers passengers a 4-level tour of the site, featuring some 350 ancient objects from excavations that delayed the work.

Good morning! Still dreaming? Jean-Baptiste Greuze's ‘Jeune Fille lascive’, a quite erotic painting on panel recently fetched €482,600 crushing its €80,000/100,000 estimate. The work, which was never published, is comparable to two similar paintings by Greuze in the Louvre.

France's first video game museum opens in Arcueil featuring playable consoles Supported by the MO5 association, the museum offers an interactive journey from 1958 to the 2010s, with 140 playable stations. The museum’s mission is preserve and transmit video game heritage.

The National Museum of Libya Is Open Tripoli Closed for 14 years due to civil war, the institution reopened its doors on Dec 12 with a spectacular ceremony. Among its treasures is the famous "Wan Muhijaj", which is considered to be one of the oldest mummies in Africa.

Work on Courbet’s ‘A Burial at Ornans’ at the @MuseeOrsay enters crucial phase You can watch the restorers in Room 7 working on the support structure in an effort to eliminate deformities. This comes of the heals of the surface cleaning of the monumental painting.

This self-portrait in pastel by Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1782) illustrates a period of abundant creativity for the artist, who quickly won recognition from her peers. Find it today at auction! Learn more https://t.co/XC96mkdhDX

Good morning! A Rare Bird(s) This extremely rare still life by 18th-century French Rococo painter François Boucher doubled its estimate fetching €273,000 with Pescheteau-Badin at Drouot. Learn more: https://t.co/dwWfcCRzVD

‘Royal Fortresses of Languedoc’ Embroiled in Controversy UNESCO candidacy of the ‘royal fortresses of Languedoc’ sparked controversy among the region’s defenders, like the País Nòstre, who prefer the name "Cathar castles" which speaks to the tragic history in the 13th-century

Mad Men Eat Your Heart Out! Dutch designer Ben Swildens created this rare sculptural desk for Max Ingrand for Peugeot’s Parisian headquarters, on avenue de la Grande-Armée in Paris in 1966. One of 3 examples, find it auction at auction tomorrow! https://t.co/Y76A9uSmKr

Egon Schiele's ‘Nude de dos accroupi’, from the collection of Viennese art patrons August and Serena Lederer, attracted strong bidding. The drawing, from late in the artist’s career sold well above its estimate, fetching €3.23M with @dorotheum

Good morning! Please don’t leave! The UK placed a temporary export ban on the journal kept by Admiral Sir John Narbrough on his voyage as captain of HMS Sweepstakes to Valdivia, Chile, from 1669-71. Valued at £800,000 it features handwritten text & 28 color illustrations

Look familiar? In the 19th-century ancient mosaics unearthed in Italy, like this copy of the Aurora fresco by Guido Reni, were translated into mircomosaics in the form of jewelry - adoring the tourists of the Grand Tour… Learn more: https://t.co/ZvXbbe4h1p #Auction

Swedish artist Julia Beck lived an Impressionist adventure in Paris from the late 1870s onwards, yet her work differs with her mysterious, even quasi-Symbolist vision of nature, as seen in ‘The Woods in Grez’ (1885). Learn more: https://t.co/p4kKwe3Lnd #Auction