François Pinault’s offer is a massive twenty-six times earnings

The work was chosen by Monet himself for his final retrospective in 1924

Though the identity of the Boucicaut Master is unknown, his work is extremely valuable

It is now the National Gallery's second drawing by Raphael

It makes it their most expensive purchase since Leonardo’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”

The Buccleuch Leonardo, the Halifax Titian plus two fine Danish purchases

An exhibition at the British Museum makes Brian Sewell question whether it should be buying twentieth-century material at all

They are also improving their Surrealism holdings

Japanese buyers come away with large proportion of lots

Mark Futter and Richard Schlagman are the new owners of Phaidon Press, the jewel in the crown of Musterlin, which collapsed in October.