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Inaugural sales do well
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
Excellent results for an exemplary group of Chinese porcelain
Gandharan sculpture did well in an otherwise difficult week at the postponed Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions
Williams will not appeal French court decision, citing health reasons
In 2001 they predicted that some areas such as the Old Master market will remain stable but that trendy art would lose its zip
The Christie's estimate puts its worth over £3.5 million
Prices are rocketing, but perhaps not everything is right in this field with many experts questioning the authenticity of some pieces
But the local market is contracting
Metropolitan Monet subject to claim
Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood and Cecily Brown prove that it’s never too soon to be an auction star
A new French revolution?
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
The couturier’s change to a minimalist lifestyle moved him to dispense with all his eighteenth-century furniture, his paintings, and decorative arts
Van Dyke painting withdrawn from sale at Christie's.
Owner of Christie's bids high and wins big
Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world
We look beyond the Brooklyn Museum's Sensation exhibition into a troubling trend emerging across the sector
In 2000 we noted that single-owner collections sent prices spiralling upwards which was good news for the salerooms, but disastrous for museums with dwindling budgets
With a Calder, the judge overruled the expert; with a Schiele, the judge decided deceit was the clincher, and with a Braque, the judge upheld Christie’s right to fear liability
Strongest sales to date for both houses
As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts
Of the fifty one books that were stolen, nineteen have been recovered
A new Orientalist star overturns Gérôme; Italo-Swiss Alpine artist fetches $9.5 million and “The big wave” sweeps photography to new heights
Our art market correspondent, Paul Jeromack, describes how he has successfully sold antiques while sitting at his computer
A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand