Art market

Art marketarchive

Victory for Wartski as disputed jewel heads to Stuttgart

The 1992 Grosvenor House Antiques Fair had declared the jewel a made-up piece

Art marketarchive

Dutch government chases war-booty Savery

The piece was taken during World War II

Too many fairs spoil the market in Chicago

But Blackman's New Pier Show promises well

Bellotto’s “Königstein” bought by Washington's National Gallery for $9.6 million

It makes it their most expensive purchase since Leonardo’s “Ginevra de’ Benci”

ADAAarchive

The ADAA thirty years on: “We’ve cleaned up tax fraud, the selling of fakes, helped recover thefts, and supported freedom of expression”

As the Art Dealers Association of America’s annual Armory show drew to an end we talked to Gilbert Edelson, a founder member

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 marketarchive

What's on in London: Jacklin at Marlborough and Oxford’s MoMA

Scully is centrepiece of Cork Street’s Open Weekend

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

Art Baselarchive

The upcoming Art Basel '92 will see no challenge to the fair's preeminence

The event that traditionally brings the American buyers to Europe opens 17 June

Following the Rodin fakes scandal French bronze founders act to protect their good name

The Syndicat concluded that French legislation is incomplete in its definitions of reproductions and forgery

Art marketarchive

English Victorian painting index

Middle-of-the-range works have maintained their appeal, even as to the kind of collector who bought them when they were painted

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?

Scotland Yard flushing out the fakes

Criminal proceedings over early English pottery fraud

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

The fashion for fashion photos: any exhibition that deals with fashion is guaranteed box office success

A rising market for the Vogue shot: two shows, one at the V&A, the other at Hamilton’s

Your Diego Giacometti may well be a fake: Massive fraud network between Besançon, Geneva, Paris, London and New York

It is estimated that between 65-80% of Giacometti furniture and sculpture offered at auction since 1986 is fake

Art marketarchive

Contemporary sale report: School of London resilient in contemporary art auctions

Francis Bacon’s “Pope” fetches top price at Sotheby’s

Art marketarchive

First exhibition of pre-Raphaelite sculpture

The response to the first critical study of this subject has been enthusiastic

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

Booksarchive

Technique anglaise: Current trends in British art

A useful, market-serving guide to thirty young British artists