Art market
Contradictory entrails; what does the financial health at present mean for the art market?
Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing
Jawlensky paintings are being branded as fakes, but the artists’ descendants defend their inclusion in the recent catalogue raisonné
“My grandfather copied his own works”
Chirac’s Musée de l’Homme raises prices for primitive art
Fetish figures, tribal shields and masks command attention
Fraudulent former dealer duped Irish Georgian Society, cheated investors out of £1.8 million, and sent fake Expressionists to tour twelve US colleges
Bryn Lloyd Williams, a former dealer, duped Desmond Guinness of the Irish Georgian Society and cheated investors out of £1.8 million, while Expressionist fakes toured 12 US colleges
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
Collectors’ profile: “America’s model millionaires”
Computer-glitch software, Norton Utilities, has made the fortunes of Peter and Eileen Norton
First, target your audience: Marketing the Brooklyn Museum of Art
New director, Arnold Lehman, has raised the profile of America’s second largest museum in just one year by advertising
Marketing at MoMA: aim at the young professionals
Elizabeth Addison, head of marketing and communications, uses weekly surveys and focus groups to build brand awareness
Hammering their prices: contemporary art dealers at last month’s fair in Switzerland pin their prices to art auction results
Art Basel ’98 fair report
Kusama makes a comeback with three concurrent exhibitions this Summer
Zwirner turns his gallery into a sports bar for the World Cup
Databases of stolen art can help thwart art thieves and promote vigilance
Registering items in such databases can bring peace of mind
Twentieth-century design sales in the US... Tiffany glass continues to climb
Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings
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
Sainsbury's wedding present to fund Japanese cultural studies in East Anglia
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
Craft swings into high gear at SOFA, New York.
Contemporary decorative arts from $68,000 fibre arts to $100,000 glass sculpture
Former film star Jacqueline Delubac's collection raises FFr30 million (£3 million; $5.1 million)
Last curtain call for haute couture collector
A survey of Ten Latin American collectors
Unsurprisingly, most of these collections strongly represent the art of their own country
German Renaissance altarpiece dismembered
Edinburgh buys central panel, but the wings may have escaped
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
Collector profile: William Berger. The instant, $20 million, English art collection
Former mutual-fund manager pits his taste against the market
The tensions in copyright law between the rights of artist, public and trade
We asked a number of lawyers to comment on the situation with regard to catalogues in their own jurisdictions, and found that the scope of protection varies widely
What's on at the Italian contemporary galleries: March 1998
Anish Kapoor and Mayan motifs
Sotheby’s postpones Korean sales sine die
Western twentieth-century art may begin to flow back from Korea
Greater China resists the economic flu
In market competition between Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei and Singapore, Hong Kong still comes top, with Taiwan second
SBC Warburg offer for Christie’s abandoned
It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found
Additional fakes land on the Spanish market
Amidst arrests regarding contraband and fake art importing
Belgian statistics reinforce British fears that EC policies will drive out the art trade
“VAT and droit de suite have destroyed the nation’s art market”
This book by a leading London dealer analyses the market from 1970 to the present
Christopher Wood's "The great art boom"
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