Auctions
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.
A solid return of the Old Masters market, with the Dutch living up to their full potential
But heavy disappointment for collector Basia Johnson as recently acquired works failed to sell
Volatile market evident at Christie's Sculpture and Works of Art sales '97 with bids few and far between
Too few collectors, and too specialised, to guarantee success even for masterpieces
Christie's sell clock collection confiscated from fanatic Francis Vitale following his sacking for embezzlement
Christie’s succeeds with the sale of goods recently in the trade and much restored
Collector Saul Steinberg sells his Old Masters
Bought since the 80s, the eight Dutch and Flemish paintings include Rembrandt and Sweerts
Michael Caine’s Art Nouveau fetches £500,000
The film star was a serious pioneer collector
Mementoes of former glory in Ickworth sale
Sotheby’s were successful; the National Trust furious
New York auction houses appeased as Monet and Giacometti achieve solid prices and Japanese bidders clinch record sales for Gris
Impressionist and modern sales '96 report
The National Trust was not given the option to buy objects from Ickworth House by the Marquess of Bristol
Controversial stately sell-off
How dynamic Dutch art collector Joost Ritman finds guidance in Rosicrucianism
The Art Newspaper examine the art and philosophy of a man who has closed deals with Sotheby’s, Noortman and Artemis
Is New York taking over from London for Old Master drawings?
Christie's cancel a London sale and European dealers are flocking to the US to buy and sell
Low totals, but dealers' worst fears assuaged: Impressionist and Modern sales '94, New York
Reasonable results, with collectors looking lively
Singapore’s new art auction market has an impressive turnover of more than $10 million after only five sales
A ten-fold increase in turnover on 1993
Eighteen Giacometti pieces from his wife’s estate to be sold by auctioneer Jacques Tajan
Sculptural ensemble "La clairière" is a standout, expected to reach up to 6 million francs
Only a legal antiquities market can curb the illegal market which destroys world history
Change needed in the face of a growing market
Contemporary art sales 1994: Poor stock meets fittingly lukewarm response, exemplified by Sotheby's Warhol fiasco
Contemporary art sales '94 auction report
Christie's Sackler maiolica sale off—for now
Collector’s widow overturns court decision
Contemporary art sales 1992: Saatchi succeeds at Sotheby's and Freud nude provokes Christie's bidding war
Contemporary art sales '92 auction report