Collectors
Michael Caine’s Art Nouveau fetches £500,000
The film star was a serious pioneer collector
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
Collector of the month: Philip Hewat-Jaboor. “You have to be prepared to stretch yourself mentally and financially”
Why I prefer decorative arts
Death of Peter Ludwig, mega-collector
The chocolate magnate both infuriated and stimulated the German art scene for nearly thirty years
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
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
Famous writer’s eclectic collection to open to the public in 1998 with $4.6 million from the Bavarian State
A museum of chaos to make men marvel
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
Two mega-collectors die
Ryoei Saito, chief of the Daishowa Paper Company and Stavros Niarchos, shipping magnate
The collectors and the artists they choose to collect
Gemma de Angelis Testa, Eliana Guglielmi, Corrado Levi, Marcello Levi, Marco Rivetti, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Turin shows hidden talent at Castello di Rivoli as six top collectors go public this month
Italy's most discreet city has always favoured the avant-garde, now celebrated by this elegantly cerebral exhibition
Collector profile: Abolala Soudavar – bibliophily in the blood
His great Persian manuscript paintings are now on loan to the Sackler
Major Greek collector Dakis Joannou reveals ten years’ worth of buying for the first time in 'Everything That's Interesting is New'
Joannou's collection, which is particularly strong in installations and large scale work, can be seen in the Athens School of Fine Arts
Don’t just berate the thieves: look at the museums and excavators too
In the last of our series which publishes talks given in London this summer, Professor Sir John Boardman, Lincoln Professor Emeritus of classical archaeology and art at Oxford, singles out three areas for concern.
Walter Goetz, cartoonist, collector and friend of The Art Newspaper dies
Contributor to Vogue, Harpers and Punch amongst others
Souren Melikian on collectors coming to the rescue in preservation crisis: The International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art's London Conference
The scholar of Iranian culture and International Herald Tribune art journalist says dealers could be the solution to recent archaeological disasters
Collection of interior design scholar Mario Praz reinstated to Palazzo Primoli apartment
Praz bequeathed the entirety of his collection to the Galleria Nazionale d’arte Moderna, in the hope that his home would become a satellite of the museum
Introducing Graham Kirkham, “The most serious British collector in the marketplace”
The Yorkshire furniture tycoon is one of the most important art and antique collectors in Britain today, but his name is almost unknown
How dynamic Dutch art collector Joost Ritman finds guidance in Rosicrucianism
The Art Newspaper examine the art and philosophy of a man who has closed deals with Sotheby’s, Noortman and Artemis
Over 50 Renaissance works from the Arundel Collection on display at the Getty
Great collectors at the Getty
Subject over style for Italian collectors, as photography continues to be commodity of choice
Works of illustration and Italian genre photography have been market favourites since the seventies
Collectors Meredith Etherington-Smith and Hamish Bowles explain couture as art
The market for haute couture comes of age
“I still believe in the hand of the artist”: Interview with collector Eugene Thaw
The connoisseur, dealer, collector and patron of the Morgan Library discusses the importance of emotional impact, and how the art market has transformed since the start of his career
“The world cannot afford many more collectors with a passion for antiquities”
As the Getty Museum opens an exhibition of the Fleischman collection of antiquities, Ricardo Elia, professor of archaeology at Boston University, argues that showcasing private collections only encourages the looting of archaeological sites.
Does art still need collectors? Where these days should the notion of collector end and that of custodian begin?
Several stakeholders weigh in
A major private museum of Impressionism and Greek art for Athens
Architect of the Louvre pyramid, I.M. Pei, is its designer
Useful dealers' survey responds to market interest in 19th-century ceramics
Outside the canon, but now bought by US Arab and Japanese collectors
Morozov's music room reconstructed in the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibition of Russia's two most famous fin-de-siècle collectors now on in Moscow