Artists for the environment

Gandharan sculpture did well in an otherwise difficult week at the postponed Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions

Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips

The auction house hopes to cash in on the £500 to £10,000 range

Eppraisals disappears, N@rt stops art sales, and nextMonet merges

A new French revolution?

Forgers reportedly work to order from Sotheby’s catalogues

Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects

A brand new tribe of collectors and buyers is coming

Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000

Strongest sales to date for both houses

As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York

Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s

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

What effect will the internet have on a market traditionally based on face-to-face contact and what are the implications of increased access to information?

Our art market correspondent, Paul Jeromack, describes how he has successfully sold antiques while sitting at his computer

A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed

(Paris) Impatient with the French parliament in passing the bill to open up the French auction market, Sotheby’s goes into partnership with Poulain-Le Fur

No market for the mediocre, however

Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing

Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani

Edinburgh buys central panel, but the wings may have escaped

Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989

Once upon a time, connoisseur dealers or even museum curators advised collectors what art to buy. Now the decorators hold sway, and at the Windsor sale a decorator’s pastiche pieces outsold real antiques

Western twentieth-century art may begin to flow back from Korea

It is presumed that investors prepared to pay an acceptable price could not be found

The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals