Collectors

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Sir Denis Mahon retracts his gift to the Walker in protest against entry charges

Baroque paintings given to National Gallery of Ireland instead

Booksarchive

Speaking prose all their lives: The relationship between art Victorian social mores explored

A book on the social and monetary value of art and how big businessmen became big collectors

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A late, great collector and the new museum of his collection: The legacy of the ever elusive John Hunt

One of Europe’s greatest private collections of medieval material and works of art from antiquity to the twentieth century is now on view in Ireland

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Deep in the art of Texas: focus on Dallas as a flourishing community of dealers and collectors

Talley Dunn of Gerald Peters Gallery states with pride that “The art community as a whole is growing”

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Major Hong Kong collector, T.T. Tsui in arms for Iran link

The multi-millionnaire has family connections with a Chinese, State-run armaments company

Chicago galleries co-operate to keep collectors local

Commercial galleries with common goals banding together

Collectorsarchive

Collector profile: Raymond Nasher, the world’s biggest private collector of modern sculpture

The shopping-mall millionare has been wooed by museums all over the world, but Dallas looks set to benefit from generosity in the great American tradition

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Collector profile: David Tang, the Jay Gatsby of Hong Kong?

David Tang mixes modern Chinese art with the smartest, retro-style club in Hong Kong and his own frantic life-style

Art marketarchive

Facture attracts: Sculpture, objects and functional art, Miami, 6 to 9 March.

Third biannual of strongly supported contemporary decorative arts

Sir Denis Mahon threatens to withdraw pictures from Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery

Veteran collector and lobbyist for the arts opposes introduction of entrance fees

Lawarchive

Vast exodus of art from Hong Kong due to fears of a Chinese clamp-down after the handover

Collectors fear changes to export regulations after British departure

Art marketarchive

Collector Saul Steinberg sells his Old Masters

Bought since the 80s, the eight Dutch and Flemish paintings include Rembrandt and Sweerts

Art marketarchive

Who are the biggest collectors of Chinese art in Taiwan?

Top Taiwanese dealer Jeff C.F. Hsu gives an exceptionally detailed analysis with names of leading figures in the market and where to find what kind of art

Auctionsarchive

Michael Caine’s Art Nouveau fetches £500,000

The film star was a serious pioneer collector

Fundingarchive

How the Po-Shing Woo Foundation has subsidised the British art world

The Becket casket and Guercino are just two works of art saved for Britain with money from a Hong Kong lawyer

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Death of Peter Ludwig, mega-collector

The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years

Amsterdamarchive

The Overholland Collection to go on tour as it loses its home to Van Gogh

The works on paper will begin their nomadic existence at the Teylers Museum

Mixed reactions to Gilbert gift of £75 million decorative arts donation

It has been well received in Britain. In Los Angeles, there are divided opinions on the collection and its owner

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A Berlin homecoming: Interview with collector Heinz Berggruen on his collection's new home

After leaving Berlin in 1937, Berggruen will be placing his collection - which will go on show this autumn - on a ten-year loan with the Berlin State Museums

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A century of tradition: looking at the art lovers of Chicago

Money from finance, industry and the law fund some of the city’s leading buyers and contemporary art is high on their agenda

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Two mega-collectors die

Ryoei Saito, chief of the Daishowa Paper Company and Stavros Niarchos, shipping magnate