Auction

The world's great auction houses open their doors as letters written by Giuseppe Verdi, a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi and a rarely seen Picasso go under the hammer.

A rare painting by Christopher Nevinson comes to Sotheby's, while bidders scramble for the last painting by Winston Churchill - of his beloved goldfish pool at Chartwell.

Salvator Mundi, the long-lost Leonardo da Vinci painting of Jesus Christ commissioned by King Louis XII, is set to break all records at auction at Christie's in New York.

The skeletons of a woolly mammoth family - found on a building site in Siberia in 2002 - are auctioned in Sussex. Meanwhile, American art goes under the hammer in New York.

Twenty-five years after her death, some of Audrey Hepburn's possessions come up for sale at Christie - and the public interest is intense.

Ehrenbreitstein, one of the finest paintings by JMW Turner still in private hands, is up for auction at Sotheby's in London where it is expected to fetch around £20million.

Sotheby's auctions a range of paintings from the 20th and 21st centuries which are no bigger than the size of the catalogue page on which it is illustrated, in actual size.

A work by Le Corbusier joins a host of Old Masters and modern British and Irish paintings up for auction at Bonhams.

Married to Laurence Olivier, the actress Vivien Leigh had star quality and Sotheby's are hoping her name will attract bidders to a two-day sale of her possessions.

At the Goodwood Revival festival in Sussex Bonham's are auctioning a range of stunning classic cars, as well as a selection of vintage aeroplanes.