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The luxury goods mogul cuts his losses from auction house investment
Dreesmann was a passionate and committed collector who barely ever sold on his beloved acquisitions
From a game-changing Japanese scandal to price-fixing at the world's leading auction houses, we look at the most significant developments over the past ten years
Six of the richest Scots and international collectors bid on the collection of the Fleming merchant bank
Briest allies with Artcurial
Gérard Champin is the president of new regulatory body for auction sales
The auction house hopes to cash in on the £500 to £10,000 range
Tip-top results for two very different sales
The Christie's estimate puts its worth over £3.5 million
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
Which trends have gone up and which have gone down
End of auction monopoly still awaited
The auction house has acquired a 5,000 square foot facility in Manhattan
The couturier’s change to a minimalist lifestyle moved him to dispense with all his eighteenth-century furniture, his paintings, and decorative arts
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