Art Market
Celebrity collections kick off the autumn auctions
The personal collections of Edward Albee, Vivien Leigh and Mario Testino come to the block this month
A preview of Parcours des Mondes
This year’s event explores links between traditional African art and contemporary art practice, while galleries around Paris present their best items
The widening market for Oceanic art
Once championed by the Surrealists, Oceanic art is now achieving top prices at auction and attracting an increasingly diverse collector base
A new initiative brings galleries to the Rhineland
An alternative to the art fair model, Okey Dokey’s collaborative project hopes to strengthen regional and international ties
How sustainable is the art scene in Dubai?
And does the city really have what it takes to become a global commercial hub?
A token of love from a besotted prince
A portrait jewel commissioned by the future George IV for his secret wife, Maria Fitzherbert, is up for auction
The European art fairs worth visiting this summer
A quick guide to the upcoming events in London, Bamberg, Edinburgh, and Knocke
Turner’s golden landscape and other auction highlights
Venetian vedute, Tuscan cassone panels, and a masterpiece of British painting all feature in London’s upcoming Old Master sales
Dance of the London art dealers
Mayfair and St James’s are still at the centre of London’s art market, but the galleries themselves are constantly on the move
The best of Masterpiece 2017
There’s something for all tastes at this year’s art fair, from ancient statuary to bright abstract paintings
Now is the time to buy English porcelain…
English porcelain may not attract the same high prices of the past, but it could still be a lucrative opportunity for new collectors
These French firedogs have an impeccable pedigree
The firedogs made for the French couturier and collector Jacques Doucet are the epitome of art deco style
Summer season kicks off in London and Brussels
London Art Week returns to St James’s and Mayfair, while Old Master fair Paris Tableau is revived – in Brussels
In London’s salerooms, bigger is no longer better
Auction highlights this month include a dramatic plaster relief in Paris, and a diminutive but vibrant Van Gogh in London
As visceral a painting as you will ever encounter…
Max Beckmann’s ‘Bird’s Hell’, a terrifying vision of cruelty painted after he fled Nazi Germany, is to be sold at auction for the first time
The contemporary art market regains its swagger
Plus: major lots announced for the London modern art sales
Gilded glass from the world’s most glamorous ship
The legendary S.S. Normandie was lost to fire in the 1940s, but relics from its luxury interior survive – including these verre églomisé panels
The record-breaking rise of the Düsseldorf School
Prices are rocketing for photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher and their students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
TEFAF makes its mark on New York
Plus: Dreweatts and Mallett sold, and dealers on the move in London
Modern masters lead the way in New York
Auction highlights this month include a Twombly masterpiece that has never appeared at auction before and a striking portrait by Picasso
When artists take on the art market
Many artists are uncomfortable about the perceived excesses of the market. But can they actually do anything about it?
Early maiolica has it all – even humour
These supposedly ‘primitive’ ceramics from late medieval and early Renaissance Italy are fresh, inventive and fun
This month’s unmissable international art events
Antiques in Hong Kong, tribal art in France, and London’s first quattrocento maiolica show in 100 years
TEFAF takes a contemporary turn in New York
Modern and contemporary art and design take centre stage at the first ever TEFAF New York Spring
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