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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
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
Edinburgh buys central panel, but the wings may have escaped
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
Western twentieth-century art may begin to flow back from Korea
It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found
The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals
The 'futures' department aims at spotting the antiques of tomorrow
Photography sales on a high with prices continuously increasing
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
The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.