Art dealers

Art marketarchive

The Old Masters market in Germany seems stable but are the collectors a dying breed?

Trade at home is still strong, but Germany is looking for business beyond its borders

I, dealer in heroes: Obituary for Leo Castelli

In memory of the man behind Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein

Art fairsarchive

A guide to Art Forum '99, Berlin

100 collectors have been flown in for the contemporary art event

Cambodiaarchive

Cambodian king urges Prime Minister to put an end to destroying ancient temples for black market trade

Corrupt military officials in cahoots with Thai art dealers are hacking away at the temples

Art marketarchive

The taste of the spectacularly wealthy Palm Beach

Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever

Art fairsarchive

Veteran dealers swerve Berlin Art Forum 1998 due to dearth of big collectors

A fair in its infancy, Art Forum proved fruitful for younger dealers with affordable art, although its concurrence with Yom Kippur did not help matters

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

June 1998archive

Are auction houses creating a bigger market for all or squeezing out the competition?

In 1998 we reflected on Sotheby's and Christie's recent move to sell cutting edge contemporary art as being a watershed moment

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

Collectors keep flocking to Cologne: Interview with gallery director Christian Nagel

Cologne's title as contemporary art capital is yet to be challenged with Berlin still in the fragmentary stages

Art marketarchive

Changes to Italy's import-export regulations

An art dealer reads the small-print of a new Italian government regulation that enables its officials to “notify” works even when on temporary importation

Collectorsarchive

A late, great collector and the new museum of his collection: The legacy of the ever elusive John Hunt

One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland

Collectorsarchive

Deep in the art of Texas: focus on Dallas as a flourishing community of dealers and collectors

Talley Dunn of Gerald Peters Gallery states with pride that “The art community as a whole is growing”

Art Baselarchive

A teeny bit middle-aged: Art Basel 1997

Our correspondent warns against doing what the auction houses do just as well

Art Baselarchive

What’s on beyond Art Basel this summer

Exploring Basel commercial galleries; from Classic Modernists to new contemporaries

Art marketarchive

An insider’s guide to the contemporary art sales, New York: Romping with Barney, Whiteread and Kiki Smith

A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows

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

Chicago galleries co-operate to keep collectors local

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

Colnaghi and Bellinger in New York: Two fine displays of Old Master drawings

A field with keen collectors and plenty of sleepers at the auctions to challenge the dealers