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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
Contemporary sales report, London: Infectious enthusiasm pulls in bidders at Sotheby's
Bacon, Kitaj, Warhol and Richter attract keen competition
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
Leonardo Codex on the market
Autumn sale at Christie’s expected for the last manuscript by the artist in private hands — in 1980 it sold for £2 million
The Warhol estate undervalued, finds court
The judge’s ruling resolves the crux of the legal war between the foundation and the lawyer for Warhol’s estate
Embattled Warhol estate fights legal fees
Christie's in the dock over whether Warhol's estate is worth $220 million or $558 million
Unexpected success in contemporary auctions, where unidentified Californian collector buys $3.5 million Gorky and $925,000 Hockney
Despite lukewarm predictions and no blockbuster items there was increased buyer confidence
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