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How sothebys.com is cutting costs
The loss-making site is shutting down its UK offices
Sotheby’s and Christie’s kick off the long awaited now open French auction market
Inaugural sales do well
1991-2001: a mini-guide to a decade in the art market
From a game-changing Japanese scandal to price-fixing at the world's leading auction houses, we look at the most significant developments over the past ten years
Following the postponement of Asia Week due to the World Trade Centre attack, sales flopped amid scant enthusiasm
Gandharan sculpture did well in an otherwise difficult week at the postponed Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions
Sotheby’s ends auctions in Chicago
Twentieth-century decorative arts market may shift to local firms and Phillips
Sotheby's places a bid for the middle market with opening of new Olympia saleroom
The auction house hopes to cash in on the £500 to £10,000 range
Online art ventures continue to face business difficulties
Eppraisals disappears, N@rt stops art sales, and nextMonet merges
Vintage photos from MoMA to be auctioned at Sotheby's
The museum is to deaccession duplicates from its collection
With Sotheby's and Christie's allowed to hold sales in Paris for the first time, can Paris regain its lost place in the art market?
A new French revolution?
Ming and Qing Chinese ceramics: A flood of fakes from Jingdezhen
Forgers reportedly work to order from Sotheby’s catalogues
“The Jewish people should be heirs to heirless art” says Knesset member, as plans are made to return Nazi-loot to rightful owners
Christie’s and Sotheby’s to help with provenance research projects
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
Disappointing sales for sothebys.com
Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000
Is another bubble about to burst in the fine art market?
In 2000 we noted that single-owner collections sent prices spiralling upwards which was good news for the salerooms, but disastrous for museums with dwindling budgets
The market for antiquities is growing, unfazed by protesters
As last month’s antiquities sales boomed, The Art Newspaper surveyed leading dealers and specialists in New York
London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
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
Will art crime be more common in cyberspace?
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?
How to do the eBay: The internet expansion of auction markets
Our art market correspondent, Paul Jeromack, describes how he has successfully sold antiques while sitting at his computer
French relent over Rosenberg war loot claims
A Monet returned; a Bonnard, Léger and Matisse still claimed
Alliance to sell Beistegui house
(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
Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern auction report: Record price for Modigliani
No market for the mediocre, however
Contradictory entrails; what does the financial health at present mean for the art market?
Sales are buoyant in some areas but real estate is weakening and nerves are showing
Are auction houses creating a bigger market for all or squeezing out the competition?
In 1998 we reflected on Sotheby's and Christie's recent move to sell cutting edge contemporary art as being a watershed moment
Sainsbury's wedding present to fund Japanese cultural studies in East Anglia
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
German Renaissance altarpiece dismembered
Edinburgh buys central panel, but the wings may have escaped
A famous collector sells up: punitive Spanish export laws induce me to sell, says Jaime Ortiz-Patiño
Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989
The Windsor sale: Stéphane Boudin and the rise and rise of the decorator
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