Susan Moore is associate editor of Apollo.
Auction highlights this month include a dramatic plaster relief in Paris, and a diminutive but vibrant Van Gogh in London
Max Beckmann's 'Bird's Hell', a terrifying vision of cruelty painted after he fled Nazi Germany, is to be sold at auction for the first time
The legendary S.S. Normandie was lost to fire in the 1940s, but relics from its luxury interior survive – including these verre églomisé panels
Auction highlights this month include a Twombly masterpiece that has never appeared at auction before and a striking portrait by Picasso
These supposedly 'primitive' ceramics from late medieval and early Renaissance Italy are fresh, inventive and fun
Lacquer is an extemely difficult material to work with, but the results can be extraordinary
Auction highlights this month include an outstanding example of early Ming porcelain and a rare Nicholas Lancret painting
This glazed terracotta roundel by Andrea della Robbia was made for a palace that was promptly destroyed
The Crommelynck brothers worked with the greatest artists of the 20th century to produce extraordinary prints, some of which will soon come to auction
The bizarre story of how an altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes was transformed into a marriage portrait of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
