An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.
Part owned by Bernard Arnault’s luxury group, this auction price database has huge expansion plans
A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming
What effect will the internet have on a market traditionally based on face-to-face contact and what are the implications of increased access to information?
A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
His record price may bolster the market, but not all artists surpassed expectations
Last curtain call for haute couture collector
Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989
Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques
The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals
Top lots go to private collectors, but the Italian State and European dealers put up a fight
100 to be sold, including Thomas Cromwell from the studio of Hans Holbein
Photography sales on a high with prices continuously increasing
The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company
It’s not a crime to sell a fake—unknowingly
The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.
But heavy disappointment for collector Basia Johnson as recently acquired works failed to sell
Too few collectors, and too specialised, to guarantee success even for masterpieces
Christie’s succeeds with the sale of goods recently in the trade and much restored
Bought since the 80s, the eight Dutch and Flemish paintings include Rembrandt and Sweerts
The film star was a serious pioneer collector
Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious
Impressionist and modern sales '96 report
Controversial stately sell-off
The Art Newspaper examine the art and philosophy of a man who has closed deals with Sotheby’s, Noortman and Artemis
Christie's cancel a London sale and European dealers are flocking to the US to buy and sell
Reasonable results, with collectors looking lively
A ten-fold increase in turnover on 1993
Sculptural ensemble "La clairière" is a standout, expected to reach up to 6 million francs