Collectors

Betting on the young outsiders: Dealers and collectors are watching the art schools like Hollywood talent scouts

This year’s Columbia University School of the Arts 2002 MFA Thesis Exhibition as zeitgeist for current trends

Art marketarchive

Sotheby’s allies with eBay

Sothebys.com will be operated by the auction giant

Auctionsarchive

Biggest Dutch collection to go under the hammer as Anton Dreesmann's life's work goes on sale at Christie's

Dreesmann was a passionate and committed collector who barely ever sold on his beloved acquisitions

Textilesarchive

Antique textiles: A boom from the loom as museum buying and new collectors hike prices

As other items become inaccessible to some collectors, many in the middle market have turned to textiles

Funnyman Steve Martin shows himself to be a serious collector in new exhibition at the Bellagio

Martin shares his love for modern and contemporary American art in new Las Vagas show, giving a personal touch via audio guide

Art Baselarchive

Interview with fair director Samuel Keller: Art Basel, the commercial complement to Venice

The director of the world’s top modern and contemporary art fair prides himself on the new talent it has discovered

Lawarchive

Former Met lawyer to advise private collectors and museums

Reflecting the continuous rise in the value of art and importance of provenance

Collectorsarchive

Collector Khalili puts town house on market for £100 million

The most expensive private town house ever put up for sale in Britain

Carter Brown’s Leonardo to be auctioned

The Christie's estimate puts its worth over £3.5 million

Art marketarchive

Art Deco furniture rules the auction houses and a new sales record was set as the style replaces 18th-century furniture

Prices are rocketing, but perhaps not everything is right in this field with many experts questioning the authenticity of some pieces

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Swiss say philanthropist collector is senile and have blocked his foundations, art and money

Legal battle over Dr Gustav Rau’s paintings, which he wants to give to Unicef, and which are on loan to Paris

Diary of a dealer: veteran Asian art dealer Robert H. Ellsworth states “provenance is worth one-third of the price”

The market is driven by supply and demand and not by collectors’ taste, says veteran dealer in Asian art

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Collector profile: Gustav Rau, Schweitzer redivivus

A doctor in a remote village in the Congo, part of Dr Rau's thousand-strong collection is on display now in Paris.

Antiquities dealer Shelby White included in US Cultural Property Advisory Committee: A fox among doves?

Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out

Collectorsarchive

Collector-benefactor profile: Who owns Sri Lankan, Canadian, cricketing art—and now portraiture?

Christopher Ondaatje has only recently come to public notice with his donation of £2,750,000 to London’s National Portrait Gallery.

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

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Collector profiles: Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Scanu of New York and Madame M. of Paris. The modern charm of Art Deco

These collectors agree that the market has risen so much as to make buying almost impossible

Booksarchive

William R. Johnston, William and Henry Walters, the reticent collectors

A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore

Collectorsarchive

Collector interview: Lew Manilow on art and Chicago

It is fifty years since this collector and essentially American philanthropist was turned on to art while at Harvard. He has been an integral part of the art establishment in Chicago for decades

Knoedlerarchive

Diary of US dealer Ann Freedman: No websales, please; only the personal touch

The president and executive director of Knoedler’s encourages collectors to become museum patrons and supplies major museums with works of art

Hanging around New York: Collector-patrons for Knoedler’s 159-year history

Picasso for the blind at Wildenstein and a bevy of Latin American paintings exhibitions

Collectorsarchive

A London Victorian watercolour collector sells up. “With contemporary art you know there will be another work around the corner”

An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.

Tibetarchive

The world’s largest museum of surviving Tibetan painting goes online

Shelley and Donald Rubin’s website invites contributions from museums, collectors, and scholars