Collectors
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
Collecting and collectors are the material of a new museum opening this month as part of the Pushkin Museum
Russia changing stance: It was all a terrible mistake, we love collectors really!
Norton Simon, greatest of post-war collectors, dies
Simon's widow has announced that his art collection will remain at the museum in Pasadena
Spain has no official record of Islamic collector
Negotiations between David Nasser Khalili and British government ongoing
Christie's Sackler maiolica sale off—for now
Collector’s widow overturns court decision
Contemporary art sales 1992: Saatchi succeeds at Sotheby's and Freud nude provokes Christie's bidding war
Contemporary art sales '92 auction report
George Costakis' dramatic tale of collecting the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union: His own words
Some of his most prized works are now on show in the New York Guggenheim exhibition “The Great Utopia: the Russian and Soviet Avant-garde 1915-32”
Agnew’s 175th anniversary: the memoirs of a senior partner, Dick Kingzett
A vanished variety of collectors: the priest, the Russian in exile, the actor, the V&A Keeper, the German and Dutch aesthetes—and a millionaire
“We buy figureheads, busts, portraits, banners—at high prices”
Moscow author amasses a collection of depictions of Lenin and Stalin before they are destroyed
English Victorian painting index
Middle-of-the-range works have maintained their appeal, even as to the kind of collector who bought them when they were painted
William S. Paley’s remarkable collection revealed in exhibition at MoMA
Bequest of modern paintings and sculpture to tour American cities
Buyer confidence returns at Impressionist and Modern paintings sales as collectors - not speculators - drive the market
The auction houses bring out six long-held major estates to tempt collectors
Centrox and Thesaurus offer new tech services to dealers and collectors
The art market at the touch of a button
The collector who ushered the Impressionists into the Louvre
A collection of works donated to the nation by Etienne Moreau-Nélaton on display at the Grand Palais
Los Angeles' County Museum of Art to hold exhibition of French Art sourced from Southern Californian collections
Monet, Renoir and Picasso will be some of the big names represented in the show, opening 9 June
Celebrating Prinny, Britain’s second-greatest royal collector after Charles I
The Carlton House treasures reassembled from the Royal Collection for the first time since 1827
The Amerbach Kunstkabinett lives again as one of the greatest Renaissance collections reunites for three months
The stunning assemblage contains works by many Northern masters, including both the elder and younger Holbeins
A guide to bad times: why the market downturn is good news for true collectors
We observed that while the market was feeling fragile during the 1991 slump, fortunes have a way of turning around
Charles Saatchi: the man and the market. The Art Newspaper was given access to the Saatchi archive to chart the transformations of this world famous collector’s taste
As “Sensation!”, the exhibition of the Saatchi collection of young British art, opens at the Royal Academy we ask what drives Saatchi to buy, and risk, so much
Brian Sewell treads the fine line between enthusiasm and aberration while marveling that no scientific treatise on the psychology of collecting exists
Are collectors deranged?
Musée Guimet displays spectacular collection of Himalayan art that will one day join its own
Collector Lionel Fournier talks about Asian art he will leave the museum