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Former Christie's director launches online venture eAuctionRoom.com

“We are a technology platform, not an auction house,” said Mark Poltimore in 2000. The onetime auction boss wants to make European sales more accessible to US and UK audiences

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Trade embargo on Iran partially lifted

The textile trade, especially in carpets, will improve but metalworks and manuscripts are still restricted

Collectorsarchive

A London Victorian watercolour collector sells up. “With contemporary art you know there will be another work around the corner”

An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.

Art marketarchive

Christie’s close down Spink and take over the building for corporate headquarters

Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world

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Disappointing sales for sothebys.com

Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000

Leslie Waddington: Always a Londoner

The welcome failure of droit de suite, the impact of internet sales and the future of YBAs and optimism about the Tate Modern

What's on in London: Gwen John times two, with lots of unseen work

Fontana moves from Hayward exhibition to commercial gallery, Basquiat’s drawings come to the City and the centenary of the charming Ardizzone is celebrated

Hanging around in London: monthly guide by Elspeth Moncrieff. Christmas shopping special

Abbot and Holder, Colnaghi, Maas Gallery, Lumley Cazalett Contemporary Applied Arts, Fine Art Society, David Black, Bloomsbury Workshop, Whitford Fine Art

Clarice Cliff collectors unite

A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent

What's On in London: July '99 to see major Degas show and resurgence of Philpot

Carolyn Sergeant's energised flower studies and Peter Coke's seashell constructions will also receive exposure this month

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What's on in London: Glass extravagance at Mallett's and Richard Green’s cabinet of Dutch delights

Also on show are Ewan Uglow’s precise drawings at Browse and Darby and the diverse talents of Underwood at the Redfern Gallery

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What's on in London: Two Julian Trevelyan exhibitions mark a decade since his death and Toko Shinoda's first major show in the city

Shifting between figuration and abstraction with the St Ives school, Kitty North's residence-cum-gallery, Andrew Gifford's textured surfaces and Warhol's studio re-imagined

Art marketarchive

Winners and losers of the market 1996-97

The art market strengthened and the salerooms saw their profits leap, however the pre-tax profits of dealers fell

Art fairsarchive

A marked improvement at Grosvenor House and Olympia

Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British

Collectorsarchive

A famous collector sells up: punitive Spanish export laws induce me to sell, says Jaime Ortiz-Patiño

Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989

Auctionsarchive

Sotheby's Old Master sale of '98 one for the books, trouncing Christie's with £30.9 million in proceeds

The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals

Auctionsarchive

State intervention on humanist manuscripts in Feltrinelli Library sale at Christie's

Top lots go to private collectors, but the Italian State and European dealers put up a fight

Art marketarchive

The UK art market: A £2.2 billion industry

Report from the British Art Market Federation shows the UK art market employs 50,000 people

Art marketarchive

A tribute to British savvy in a time of increasing globalisation

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

Armory's International Fine Art Fair report: International dealers chase diverse US spending power

Sixteen French dealers join the Anglo-Saxons with Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern art

5,000 visitors in ten days to see Wartski’s tiaras

Sales of the catalogue have raised nearly £35,000 for the Samaritans

Art marketarchive

A solid return of the Old Masters market, with the Dutch living up to their full potential

But heavy disappointment for collector Basia Johnson as recently acquired works failed to sell

Art marketarchive

Volatile market evident at Christie's Sculpture and Works of Art sales '97 with bids few and far between

Too few collectors, and too specialised, to guarantee success even for masterpieces