Collectors

Collectorsarchive

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

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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

How should billionaire Ronald Lauder be understood; philanthropist, restitution advocate, leader or naive temporiser?

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?

Art fairsarchive

Arts of Pacific Asia Show: Mid-price treasures for new and younger collectors

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

Turinarchive

Turin gets a private museum of decorative art

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

Art marketarchive

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

Art marketarchive

Dealers deem London Old Masters market scarce but stable

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

Art marketarchive

The Old Masters trade: Scarce but stable

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

Art marketarchive

The Old Masters market in Germany seems stable but are the collectors a dying breed?

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

Collectorsarchive

Collector interview: Berlin poor but crucial

Erika and Rolf Hoffmann open their collection in Berlin

The rebirth of Florence's Villa Stibbert

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

Art Baselarchive

Buyers galore but a bit of a bore: Art Basel 1999

Collectors came out in force, but much of the art on show was not as exciting as that seen at Venice or offered by the auction houses

Ashmolean shows Renaissance bronzes with Daniel Katz

Centenary of collector, C.D.E. Fortnum, celebrated with exhibition and lectures at Society of Antiquaries

Booksarchive

The lives of the collectors: J. Pierpont Morgan. Everything but the art

This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting

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Lives of the collectors: Norton Simon and Hans Berggruen. Culture clash

Similar in many ways, the subjects of these two biographies present contrasting styles of operation in the art market

Art marketarchive

The taste of the spectacularly wealthy Palm Beach

Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever

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Collector interview: Peter Maenz. “It felt like home”

The former Cologne art dealer has given, lent, and sold parts of his collection to Weimar, in eastern Germany

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Lives of collectors: a faux Frick biography

This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired

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Collector profile: Jan Mitchell's antiquities and the search for "the philosopher’s stone"

The man behind the Mitchell Prize, awarded last month, is also a major collector of Pre-Columbian gold sculpture

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Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'

Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California