Collectors
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
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
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
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
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.
Sotheby’s executive vice-president talks about their online venture and the importance of auctions on the web
A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming
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?
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
Turin gets a private museum of decorative art
Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over
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
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
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
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
Thea Westreich, the visionary US art advisor whose grasp of the system determined the Kramlich Collection's success
She is the bridge between the private collector and the public
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
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
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
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
The taste of the spectacularly wealthy Palm Beach
Dealers come to share in the benefits of no income tax whatsoever
Charles Saatchi announces gift of 100 works of art, worth £500,000, to the Arts Council Collection
Is the gift an act of virtuous self-regard?
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
Lives of collectors: a faux Frick biography
This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired
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
Collector profile: Eli Broad. 'Real entrepreneurs don’t collect Old Masters'
Eli Broad speaks about how he cultivates culture in Southern California
"Renaissance women patrons, wives and widows in Italy, c. 1300-1550"
Catherine E. King's book reviewed