Art dealers

What's onarchive

What's On in Paris: Connecticut art as an export and Warhol's preliminary shots

Also, a exhibitors unite for show entitled "Art spoken here" and sculptor Ronald Jones's debut exhibition in France

Art Baselarchive

Acceptance of reduced sales felt at Art Basel

Lower prices and lesser works marked this year’s event although the attitude was nevertheless one of survival

Booksarchive

Agnew’s 175th anniversary: the memoirs of a senior partner, Dick Kingzett

A vanished variety of collectors: the priest, the Russian in exile, the actor, the V&A Keeper, the German and Dutch aesthetes—and a millionaire

Basquiat’s dealer disappears pursued by creditors

Baghoomian vanishes while Basquiat paintings remain missing

Art marketarchive

Cautious sales in a buoyant French auction market

Good pickings for private collectors at Drouot auctions

Ethicsarchive

The place of scholars in the commercial art market: how to avoid shameful infections and a diminution of the truth?

It is pointless to pretend that the commercial art world and the worlds of research do not interpenetrate each other. Here we look at the relationship, present and past, and ask ourselves, in what respect is the art historian any different from the lawyer who sells his opinion?

Michael Werner Gallery sells Berlinische Galerie a Baselitz for DM2.3 million

The buy was demonstrative of the gallery's commitment to acquiring works from that period

Interview with Nicholas Logsdail: Lisson's founder in both expansive and expansionist mood

Contemporary art dealer affirms his confidence in the artists he works with by doubling the gallery space at the Lisson

Obituariesarchive

Adrian Ward-Jackson has died

The successful art dealer died aged 41

Art marketarchive

Brodsky tables bills to restrict the freedoms of N.Y. auction houses

Populist legislation involves no more “chandelier” bids, loans to buyers, or secret reserve

Art Baselarchive

Art Basel's coordinators prioritise market over culture

No more free champagne at the 22nd Art fair, from 12 to 17 June

March 1991archive

A guide to bad times: why the market downturn is good news for true collectors

We observed that while the market was feeling fragile during the 1991 slump, fortunes have a way of turning around

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: Heinz Berggruen reflects on his collection as his masterpieces go on loan to the National Gallery

“Not all art dealers make good collectors, and it’s no use them trying to be something they are not”.

Forgeriesarchive

Matisse forgeries in the market is nothing new

Dealers fear more forged prints may emerge