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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And a wider range of stock attracts more collectors

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

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

The couturier’s change to a minimalist lifestyle moved him to dispense with all his eighteenth-century furniture, his paintings, and decorative arts

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

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

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

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

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

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

A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming

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

The heir to the cosmetics fortune is creating his own museum and would like to see art returned to Holocaust victims, but how effective is he actually?

Works from the Southeast Asian countries vie with the more traditional Chinese and Japanese selections

in the US, give to get

Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over

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

While a broad consensus emerged that sales remain solid, the demand for quality pictures outstrips supply, causing frustration among serious collectors

While the market remains largely stable in Europe, the demand for quality pictures, fuelled by thriving European economies, outstrips supply

Trade at home is still strong, but Germany is looking for business beyond its borders

She is the bridge between the private collector and the public

Erika and Rolf Hoffmann open their collection in Berlin

Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory