Art Market
May madness gets underway in New York
Plus: art fair shake-ups in Germany and an Ottoman art record in London
How UK institutions are benefitting from a quiet tax break
Many acquisitions at UK museums are made possible by a tax break that benefits both buyer and seller
Highlights of Art Brussels
Like the city itself, the strength of this fair is in its variety
The unsung beauty of Chinese cinnabar lacquer
Lacquer is an extemely difficult material to work with, but the results can be extraordinary
Who’s collecting German experimental prints?
There has always been a market for early 20th-century German prints, but it’s constantly evolving as tastes and expertise change
Battling for bragging rights ahead of the New York sales
The auction houses have announced their top lots for the May sales in New York
A guide to this month’s best art fairs
Art Brussels, Art Cologne, and the London Original Print Fair all return in the coming weeks, and the countdown to Art en Vieille-Ville in Geneva begins
Rare Asian art comes to the block at Sotheby’s
Auction highlights this month include an outstanding example of early Ming porcelain and a rare Nicholas Lancret painting
The Della Robbia that escaped disaster
This glazed terracotta roundel by Andrea della Robbia was made for a palace that was promptly destroyed
‘You can get real fireworks with pastels’
Why Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pastels are becoming increasingly attractive to art collectors of all sorts
Picasso’s printmakers step into the spotlight
The Crommelynck brothers worked with the greatest artists of the 20th century to produce extraordinary prints, some of which will soon come to auction
Discover the best drawings at Salon du Dessin 2017
The Parisian fair returns this month to celebrate one of the most instinctive and timeless of mediums
TEFAF exhibitors report another fruitful fair
Early reported sales at TEFAF Maastricht were strong, particularly among Old Master dealers
Why everyone’s talking about forensics in the art market
Technical research offers assurances to private collectors – but they must exercise caution
Pick of the fair: Kunstkammer Georg Laue
This lapis lazuli vessel is the work of one of a famous dynasty of Milanese lapidaries, and a market rarity
Pick of the fair: Carlton Hobbs
Two liveried servants bear trays of food in this charming 18th-century tile painting attributed to Vicente Navarro
Pick of the fair: Les Enluminures
This unpublished Book of Hours was possibly illustrated by three of the most original artists working in Paris in the 15th century
Pick of the fair: Ben Brown Fine Arts
Ori Gersht meticulously recreated a Fantin-Latour, flash froze it and then blew it up, in order to capture a moment of destruction
Pick of the fair: Bernard de Grunne
Large Sawos totemic figures such as this were hung on cult houses and dwellings to represent powerful ancestral forces
Pick of the fair: John Endlich Antiquairs
This rare example of a Dutch doll’s house contains almost 200 unique silver miniatures and Chinese porcelain dated around 1700
The best of BADA 2017
More than 90 dealers ranging widely across art, antiques, and contemporary design come together to celebrate the fair’s 25th anniversary
Pick of the fair: James Butterwick
Ukrainian avant-garde artist Anatoly Petritsky, designed various productions in Kharkov in the 1920s, including Puccini’s Turandot
Pick of the fair: Galerie Tanakaya
Representations of and allusions to the six rivers and their associated classical poems were popular among Edo printmakers in Japan
Pick of the fair: Rafael Valls
Wolfgang Heimbach, once a court painter to Frederick III, captures the rich incidental detail of this rustic laundry scene
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