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

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

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