Art market

Collectorsarchive

Subject over style for Italian collectors, as photography continues to be commodity of choice

Works of illustration and Italian genre photography have been market favourites since the seventies

Photography thriving in London, shortage of collectors notwithstanding

Few buyers, but innovative galleries win the public's approval

July 1994archive

The hunting and capture of two fakers: Mr and Mrs 'van den Bergen' arrested on forgery charges

Ali Baba’s cave of forgeries uncovered—the crucial evidence lay in the fake certificates

Bank debtors’ Van Gogh withdrawn as fake

While there is some support for its attribution, doubt still lingers

Art Baselarchive

Dealers at Art Basel play it safe in response to art market uncertainty

Return to the classics as galleries keep their eyes on selling

Calder for sale in London

Tapping into the artist's popularity after the success of his RA appearance

Newsarchive

The Warhol estate undervalued, finds court

The judge’s ruling resolves the crux of the legal war between the foundation and the lawyer for Warhol’s estate

Looted artarchive

Stolichny bank buys war booty

Russian bank revealed as major investor in the art market

Art fairsarchive

Clients look to spend, some over $1 million dollars: The Art Show 1994, New York

Serious collectors, serious prices, but mostly for the modern

Embattled Warhol estate fights legal fees

Christie's in the dock over whether Warhol's estate is worth $220 million or $558 million

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