Christie's
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
With Sotheby's and Christie's allowed to hold sales in Paris for the first time, can Paris regain its lost place in the art market?
A new French revolution?
“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
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Van Dyke painting withdrawn from sale at Christie's.
Pinault copies Arnault and buys French auctioneers Etude Tajan
Owner of Christie's bids high and wins big
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
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
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
London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
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
Christie's remove volumes from October sale to investigate links to Jagiellonian Library theft
Of the fifty one books that were stolen, nineteen have been recovered
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
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
Vincennes and Sèvres from the Pirie (including Plumb) Collection sold at Christie's New York
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
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
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
Christie's Contemporary auction report: Basquiat as a pricing phenomenon
His record price may bolster the market, but not all artists surpassed expectations
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
Twentieth-century design sales in the US... Tiffany glass continues to climb
Twentieth-century decorative arts sales confirm prize prices for iconic furnishinings
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
Greater China resists the economic flu
In market competition between Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei and Singapore, Hong Kong still comes top, with Taiwan second
SBC Warburg offer for Christie’s abandoned
It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found
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