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Contemporary and Post-war art auction sales do better than expected

Gary Hume, Sam Taylor-Wood and Cecily Brown prove that it’s never too soon to be an auction star

Auctionsarchive

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

Tate misses out on a Van Dyck portrait of Lucy Percy

Van Dyke painting withdrawn from sale at Christie's.

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Christie’s close down Spink and take over the building for corporate headquarters

Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world

In their need to raise sponsorship, are US museums risking the loss of their intellectual freedom?

We look beyond the Brooklyn Museum's Sensation exhibition into a troubling trend emerging across the sector

Is another bubble about to burst in the fine art market?

In 2000 we noted that single-owner collections sent prices spiralling upwards which was good news for the salerooms, but disastrous for museums with dwindling budgets

Lawarchive

Authenticity and connoisseurship: How do we know it's real?

With a Calder, the judge overruled the expert; with a Schiele, the judge decided deceit was the clincher, and with a Braque, the judge upheld Christie’s right to fear liability

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The market for antiquities is growing, unfazed by protesters

As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York

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Ritzy auction prices for homespun objects: American Arts and Crafts design receives boost in popularity from Barbra Streisand

“At least thirty collectors are spending $200,000-500,000 a year at auction” on this branch of the decorative arts

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Auction records off the beaten track

A new Orientalist star overturns Gérôme; Italo-Swiss Alpine artist fetches $9.5 million and “The big wave” sweeps photography to new heights

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How to do the eBay: The internet expansion of auction markets

Our art market correspondent, Paul Jeromack, describes how he has successfully sold antiques while sitting at his computer

Clarice Cliff collectors unite

A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent

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The taste of the spectacularly wealthy Palm Beach

Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever

The very comical tragedy of the Schloss collection's “Rembrandt”

Christie’s, US Customs, a bankrupt dealer, hoards of lawyers, and much time and money played a part in this

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There has been a softening in the middle-range of the art market

Percentage rates are down in many areas for the first half of the season

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Christie's Contemporary auction report: Basquiat as a pricing phenomenon

His record price may bolster the market, but not all artists surpassed expectations

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Contradictory entrails; what does the financial health at present mean for the art market?

Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing

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Twentieth-century design sales in the US... Tiffany glass continues to climb

Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings

June 1998archive

Are auction houses creating a bigger market for all or squeezing out the competition?

In 1998 we reflected on Sotheby's and Christie's recent move to sell cutting edge contemporary art as being a watershed moment

Christie’s is bought out by the French

François Pinault’s offer is a massive twenty-six times earnings

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Greater China resists the economic flu

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

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SBC Warburg offer for Christie’s abandoned

It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found

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Christie’s sale loses a probable half million over withdrawn paintings found to be fakes

Experts proved just before last year’s auction in New York that at least six paintings were recent forgeries