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
Trade embargo on Iran partially lifted
The textile trade, especially in carpets, will improve but metalworks and manuscripts are still restricted
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.
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
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
London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
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
Vincennes and Sèvres from the Pirie (including Plumb) Collection sold at Christie's New York
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
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
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
The European Fine Art Fair Basel: International dealers, local audience
Asian art and antiquities are strongly represented
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
Experienced art dealers advise on how to survive during a time of economic confusion
Survival hints (just in case)
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
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
Sainsbury's wedding present to fund Japanese cultural studies in East Anglia
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
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
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
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
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
Masterpieces of the Zuloaga family courtesy of a Middle-Eastern millionaire
From gunmakers to silversmiths
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
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
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
London Original Print Fair is a serious event for real collectors
But £60 can still buy you quality