Art market

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German Renaissance altarpiece dismembered

Edinburgh buys central panel, but the wings may have escaped

Collectorsarchive

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

Featuresarchive

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

Art marketarchive

Sotheby’s postpones Korean sales sine die

Western twentieth-century art may begin to flow back from Korea

Art marketarchive

Greater China resists the economic flu

In market competition between Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei and Singapore, Hong Kong still comes top, with Taiwan second

Art marketarchive

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

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

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Contemporary decorative arts at Bonhams for £50 to £48,000

The 'futures' department aims at spotting the antiques of tomorrow

Art marketarchive

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

Japanarchive

Collectors dormant at first edition of the Tokyo International Art Fair due to limping economy

Stock market crashes and earthquakes shake but collectors were not so lively

Art fairsarchive

Sales satisfactory at Berlin Art Forum '97, though dealers may have to be patient for fair to come into its own

Dealers and collectors alike come here to see the city and its contemporary art world take shape but immediate sales were limited

Art marketarchive

A strong local identity in the LA market

Twentieth-century design, Western and Latin American art, movie memorabilia and jewellery dominate the auctions

Auctionsarchive

The Charles E. Lees collection of 100 portrait miniatures is being sold at Bonhams

100 to be sold, including Thomas Cromwell from the studio of Hans Holbein

Dresden recovers four missing pictures

The paintings have been missing since 1945

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

Booksarchive

Speaking prose all their lives: The relationship between art Victorian social mores explored

A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

Art marketarchive

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

Forty-five Van Gogh fakes? How many really are there?

Scholars say that famous paintings are not by the artist. Provenances difficult to prove

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

Asian artarchive

New York all set to be the world centre for Asian art

The Art Newspaper reporter saw a trend towards later Chinese art, satisfied dealers active museums buyers—and some worrying fakes

Chicago galleries co-operate to keep collectors local

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together