(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

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.

“A very happy occasion” as painting looted by American soldiers returns home

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

Bought since the 80s, the eight Dutch and Flemish paintings include Rembrandt and Sweerts

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

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

Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious

Impressionist and modern sales '96 report

Controversial stately sell-off

The consignor of the piece remains unknown

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

Collectors fear the end of British rule in the Territory, but some young dealers see huge opportunities

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

Former head of Museum of Modern Art and now chairman of Sotheby’s America sees no conflict between museums and the trade