Auctions
Biggest Dutch collection to go under the hammer as Anton Dreesmann's life's work goes on sale at Christie's
Dreesmann was a passionate and committed collector who barely ever sold on his beloved acquisitions
1991-2001: a mini-guide to a decade in the art market
From a game-changing Japanese scandal to price-fixing at the world's leading auction houses, we look at the most significant developments over the past ten years
Best ever Scottish sale at Christie's
Six of the richest Scots and international collectors bid on the collection of the Fleming merchant bank
Arms giant Dassault backs “cultural and artistic hub” for French auction Market
Briest allies with Artcurial
As France opens its auction market predictions are optimistic that “France could regain its supremacy in Europe”
Gérard Champin is the president of new regulatory body for auction sales
Sotheby's places a bid for the middle market with opening of new Olympia saleroom
The auction house hopes to cash in on the £500 to £10,000 range
With the Paris auction market soon to be cracked wide open to outside competition, all eyes were on the first major sales to be held this year
Tip-top results for two very different sales
Carter Brown’s Leonardo to be auctioned
The Christie's estimate puts its worth over £3.5 million
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
Winning and losing categories in the art market over the last 15 years
Which trends have gone up and which have gone down
Drouot reports 14% increase in turnover after another strong year in the market
End of auction monopoly still awaited
Phillips finds NY home while its owner, Bernard Arnault, headhunts in Sotheby’s
The auction house has acquired a 5,000 square foot facility in Manhattan
The Lagerfeld Collection: “We all have to live in our own times”
The couturier’s change to a minimalist lifestyle moved him to dispense with all his eighteenth-century furniture, his paintings, and decorative arts
A London Victorian watercolour collector sells up. “With contemporary art you know there will be another work around the corner”
An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.
How Artprice.com raised $24 million on the Nouveau Marché
Part owned by Bernard Arnault’s luxury group, this auction price database has huge expansion plans
Sotheby’s executive vice-president talks about their online venture and the importance of auctions on the web
A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming
Will art crime be more common in cyberspace?
What effect will the internet have on a market traditionally based on face-to-face contact and what are the implications of increased access to information?
Clarice Cliff collectors unite
A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent
Vincennes and Sèvres from the Pirie (including Plumb) Collection sold at Christie's New York
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
Christie's Contemporary auction report: Basquiat as a pricing phenomenon
His record price may bolster the market, but not all artists surpassed expectations
Former film star Jacqueline Delubac's collection raises FFr30 million (£3 million; $5.1 million)
Last curtain call for haute couture collector
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
The Windsor sale: Stéphane Boudin and the rise and rise of the decorator
Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques
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
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
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
“The photography market in the future lies with collectors who can spend $10,000”
Photography sales on a high with prices continuously increasing
Major Hong Kong collector, T.T. Tsui in arms for Iran link
The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company
A brush with the law: The FBI jump on two auction houses, but prosecution is no simple matter
It’s not a crime to sell a fake—unknowingly
Cutting-edge art forced onto the block to repay foundation as owner, Nadal-Ginard, languishes in jail
The secret behind Sotheby’s contemporary art sale in New York, 6 May.