Browse auctions across art, design, and collectibles from leading European auction houses.
From Chagall lithographs and Picasso ceramics to Bengt Lindstrom's explosive colour fields and Peter Dahl's grotesque portraits, our auction houses span the full breadth of European art history. You'll find Old Masters from Dorotheum in Vienna next to contemporary Nordic prints from Bukowskis, French post-war abstractions from Aguttes alongside quiet Danish Golden Age landscapes from Bruun Rasmussen. The range is the point: blue-chip names and overlooked talents surface side by side, and the best discoveries often come from the lots you weren't searching for.
Hans Wegner's Wishbone Chair. Finn Juhl's Chieftain. Poul Kjaerholm's PK22. The names are legendary, and they come up at auction more often than you'd expect. But the real depth here extends well beyond Scandinavian mid-century: French Art Deco consoles from Artcurial, Viennese Jugendstil cabinets from Dorotheum, anonymous 18th-century Danish cabinetmaker works that rival anything with a famous signature. If you care about how a piece of furniture is made, about the joint and the grain and the intention behind the form, you'll lose hours here.
Rolex, Omega, Cartier, Bulgari, Patek Philippe. Ole Lynggaard's nature-inspired goldwork. Georg Jensen silver jewellery with that unmistakable Scandinavian restraint. European auction houses bring together haute joaillerie from Paris and Geneva with Nordic craft traditions that treat silver and stone with equal seriousness. From diamond solitaires and vintage chronographs to estate brooches with decades of provenance, pieces regularly come up at a fraction of retail. The trick is knowing where to look.
Lisa Larson's whimsical figurines, Stig Lindberg's playful patterns, Axel Salto's budding organic forms. But also Royal Copenhagen's centuries of porcelain mastery, Meissen from German estates, Italian maiolica from Florentine collections. European ceramics carry an intimacy that larger art forms sometimes lack. These are objects made to be held, turned over, examined. From Gustavsberg studio experiments to Hummel figurines that someone's grandmother treasured for fifty years, this category rewards patience and a willingness to look closely.
Bertil Vallien's sandcast boats, Ulrica Hydman-Vallien's painted faces, Tapio Wirkkala's ice-inspired forms from Iittala. Scandinavian art glass from Kosta Boda and Orrefors sits at the heart of Nordic design history, but the European auction market opens up further: Murano masters like Flavio Poli and Carlo Scarpa, Lalique from French estates, Loetz from Austrian collections. Glass is one of the most tactile collecting categories. Light passes through it differently depending on the time of day. Few materials reward a trained eye quite like this one.
Poul Henningsen's PH lamps are icons of twentieth-century design, and they appear at European auctions more often than you'd think. So do Arne Jacobsen's AJ series, Verner Panton's bold curves, rare Fog & Morup pendants from the 1960s, and Murano glass chandeliers from Italian estates. Dorotheum in Vienna surfaces Habsburg-era chandeliers; Artcurial in Paris offers French mid-century. Whether you're furnishing a room or building a collection, lighting is one of those categories where auction consistently outperforms retail, both on price and on the sheer range of what's available.
Silver, metalwork, and studio craft from across Europe. Georg Jensen's art deco hollowware. Axel Salto's organic stoneware. Just Andersen's bronze and pewter. Wiener Werkstatte metalwork from Dorotheum. French art nouveau bronzes from Aguttes. This category lives in the space between fine art and applied craft, a boundary that European makers have always been comfortable blurring. Objects here were made to be used, but they were also made to be beautiful. The best pieces hold up to both standards.
Model cars, coins, vintage photographs, rare books, walking sticks, scientific instruments, and things you didn't know existed. Collectibles is the broadest category at auction, and often the most surprising. This is where European estate sales deliver the unexpected: a box of Schuco tin toys from a German attic, a collection of 19th-century daguerreotypes, a cabinet of curiosities assembled over decades by someone with excellent taste and no interest in following trends. Browse with an open mind.
From handknotted Persian gallery carpets to Scandinavian rya rugs by Ingegerd Silow and Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg, textile auctions bridge centuries and continents of craft tradition. French Aubusson tapestries, Swedish flat-weave rollakans, Turkish kilims, and mid-century Scandinavian pile rugs all compete for attention. Condition and provenance matter enormously here. A well-preserved 19th-century carpet can outlast most furniture, and expert auction cataloguing is especially valuable for separating the genuine from the reproduction.
Japanese netsuke, Chinese porcelain, bronze sculptures, scholar's rocks, and jade carvings. Asian art at European auctions often carries Western provenance stretching back centuries: Scandinavian families who traded with the East India companies, French collectors who bought during the japonisme craze, Austrian aristocrats with a taste for chinoiserie. Houses like Aguttes, Lyon & Turnbull, Millon, and Dorotheum regularly offer serious pieces alongside more accessible entry points for new collectors. The depth of European collections continues to surprise.
Flintlock pistols, cavalry sabres, antique hunting rifles, edged weapons, and military memorabilia spanning centuries of European history. From Scandinavian percussion firearms and pattern knives to Napoleonic-era swords from French estates and Habsburg military decorations from Vienna. Specialist houses like Mauritz Widforss bring deep expertise, while generalist houses regularly surface unexpected finds from family collections and country estates. This is a category where knowledge and patience are rewarded, and where a single powder horn can tell a story spanning two hundred years.
Classic cars, vintage motorcycles, and automotive memorabilia. European vehicle auctions range from barn-find project bikes to concours-ready collector cars, with Artcurial in Paris leading the prestige end and Scandinavian houses surfacing everything from Volvo Amazons to pre-war motorcycles. This is a smaller category where patience pays off. Individual lots can sit anywhere from a few hundred euros for parts and accessories to millions for the right marque, the right year, and the right story.
Louis Vuitton trunks, Hermes scarves, Chanel handbags, designer sunglasses, and everything that doesn't fit neatly into another category. Miscellaneous is the auction equivalent of a flea market's best corner: full of luxury fashion, design objects, and curiosities that defy classification. Some of the best auction finds hide here precisely because they're hard to categorize. If you only browse the obvious categories, you'll miss half of what's interesting.