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Minimalist interiors are being decorated with showy accent pieces
The Sotheby’s-friendly team is joining Artcurial
Record prices for Andreas Gursky, Peter Doig, Luciano Fabro and Douglas Gordon
The loss-making site is shutting down its UK offices
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
Gandharan sculpture did well in an otherwise difficult week at the postponed Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions
Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips
The auction house hopes to cash in on the £500 to £10,000 range
Eppraisals disappears, N@rt stops art sales, and nextMonet merges
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
A new French revolution?
Forgers reportedly work to order from Sotheby’s catalogues
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming
Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000
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
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
While a broad consensus emerged that sales remain solid, the demand for quality pictures outstrips supply, causing frustration among serious collectors
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?
Our art market correspondent, Paul Jeromack, describes how he has successfully sold antiques while sitting at his computer
A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed
(Paris) Impatient with the French parliament in passing the bill to open up the French auction market, Sotheby’s goes into partnership with Poulain-Le Fur
No market for the mediocre, however
Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing
In 1998 we reflected on Sotheby's and Christie's recent move to sell cutting edge contemporary art as being a watershed moment