Buyer's Guide

Marina Abramović: a buyer's guide

Everything you need to know about the artist’s market before you start building your collection

Jean-Michel Basquiat: a buyer's guide

Basquiat's art market superstardom rose to dizzying new heights in 2021 but auction sales dropped by 50% in 2022

Buyer's guide to...sustainable art collecting

What galleries, collectors and artists can do to help reduce the carbon footprint of buying art

René Magritte: a buyer's guide

The artist’s trademark motifs make his work easily recognisable and desirable—but there is more to this Surrealist than apples and bowler hats

Charles White: a buyer's guide

He chronicled the African American experience when white male abstraction ruled. Now record prices for his work are frequently reset

Les Lalanne: a buyer's guide

A sale of the artist duo's collection at Sotheby's Paris this week could further fuel market demand for Les Lalanne's playful works that fuse flora and fauna

Albert Oehlen: a buyer's guide

With three separate shows of his work taking place in London during Frieze Week, the German artist's market is heating up

Louise Bourgeois: a buyer's guide

The late French artist’s phallic bronzes are not as easy to home as many of her other works, but it is the spiders that remain the most coveted— and hardest to come by

Gerhard Richter: a buyer's guide

As a major retrospective on the artist is due to open at the Met Breuer in New York next year, we look at the German artist's market

Egon Schiele: a buyer's guide

While well known in the West, the work of this major figure of Austrian Expressionism is less recognised in Asia—until now