Christie's
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Christie’s sale loses a probable half million over withdrawn paintings found to be fakes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
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 photography market in the future lies with collectors who can spend $10,000”
Photography sales on a high with prices continuously increasing
Let’s all pull together: Christie's to collaborate with The European Fine Art Fair in Basel
Unprecedented alliance between auction house and art and antiques fair
A tribute to British savvy in a time of increasing globalisation
London may be the loser in the end, but the Brits brought it on themselves
An insider’s guide to the contemporary art sales, New York: Romping with Barney, Whiteread and Kiki Smith
A new strategy at Sotheby’s as private collectors’ appetite for sculpture grows
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
A growing and buoyant Chinese art market suggests “No one should underestimate the strength of the Chinese diaspora”
1996 saw high prices and new records with the Chinese determining the shape and make up of future sales
Works of art stolen from Austrian Jews by the Nazis sell out and realise $14 million, five times the estimated total
Auction was an expression of piety, not of the art market
Michael Caine’s Art Nouveau fetches £500,000
The film star was a serious pioneer collector
Shanghai is taking to meishu, for the first time an art scene is emerging in China’s most commercial city
With the Shanghai Museum expanding this month, a modern art museum planned for two years hence and a dozen serious commercial galleries likely in 1997
Christie’s to auction unclaimed works of art confiscated from Austrian Jews by the Nazis
8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach
Damien Hirst ignites the saleroom with his first appearance in auction
Five bidders competed for a Hirst painting
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
Chinese privatise their auction scene
Rapid advances as new companies model their catalogues and conditions of sale on Western models
Christie’s takes on sale of Jewish loot
900 works of art looted from Vienna’s Jewish community and stored in a monastery since 1955 to be sold on its behalf - It may be a PR nightmare for the auctioneers
Fifty years ago: looking at the art and artists of 1945
Peace was celebrated in Europe fifty years ago. As The Art Newspaper reaches its fiftieth issue this month, we look at the art of a war-torn world
London Impressionist and Modern sales: Yes, it’s good, but will it last?
Picasso, Matisse, Miró and Dalí suggest that great works of art continue to command great prices in changing markets
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