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

In market competition between Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei and Singapore, Hong Kong still comes top, with Taiwan second

It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found

Experts proved just before last year’s auction in New York that at least six paintings were recent forgeries

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

Photography sales on a high with prices continuously increasing

Unprecedented alliance between auction house and art and antiques fair

London may be the loser in the end, but the Brits brought it on themselves

A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows

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

1996 saw high prices and new records with the Chinese determining the shape and make up of future sales

Auction was an expression of piety, not of the art market

The film star was a serious pioneer collector

With the Shanghai Museum expanding this month, a modern art museum planned for two years hence and a dozen serious commercial galleries likely in 1997

8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach

Five bidders competed for a Hirst painting

Impressionist and modern sales '96 report

Rapid advances as new companies model their catalogues and conditions of sale on Western models

900 works of art looted from Vienna’s Jewish community and stored in a monastery since 1955 to be sold on its behalf - It may be a PR nightmare for the auctioneers

Peace was celebrated in Europe fifty years ago. As The Art Newspaper reaches its fiftieth issue this month, we look at the art of a war-torn world

Picasso, Matisse, Miró and Dalí suggest that great works of art continue to command great prices in changing markets

Christie's cancel a London sale and European dealers are flocking to the US to buy and sell

Bacon, Kitaj, Warhol and Richter attract keen competition

Reasonable results, with collectors looking lively

A ten-fold increase in turnover on 1993

Autumn sale at Christie’s expected for the last manuscript by the artist in private hands — in 1980 it sold for £2 million