Art Market

Piper's new contemporary art space, in the basement of an established Mayfair antiques dealership, epitomises how the city's art world is changing

Megan Piper and the young gallerists making their mark on London

The contemporary art gallerist’s alliance with an antiques dealer epitomises the changing art world

10 May 2016
Le Baiser (c. 1957), René Magritte.

The final Spring Masters New York offers a glimpse of things to come

In 2017 Spring Masters will be reincarnated as one of two hotly anticipated TEFAF New York fairs. It’s hard not to see this year’s event as a soft launch

3 May 2016
Le Bassin aux nymphéas

Mitchell, Monet and the Master of Kasadi come to auction

Bacon, Warhol, Rothko…All the usual big-hitters appear in this month’s blue-chip sales. For the sake of variety, here are a few other highlights

1 May 2016
The Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopard of Serenity

The growing craze for American folk art

Collectors love it for its graphic power – and Europe’s growing interest in outsider art could widen the market

Painting steals the show at Art Cologne

Contemporary painting in Germany is flourishing, if the highlights of Cologne’s art fair are anything to go by

14 Apr 2016
Autoportrait, place Vendôme resized (detail; 1932), Bernard Boutet. Courtesy Sotheby's

Sotheby’s sells ‘the handsomest man in Europe’

The elegant Bernard Boutet, medieval chess pieces and a vibrant, miniaturist Madonna feature in our preview of April’s art market

3 Apr 2016
Tableau Rastadada (1920), Francis Picabia. © ADAGP, Paris and DACS London 2016

What is Dada? (And how much is it worth?)

Dada ‘anti-art’ works are deliberately contradictory. They’re also notoriously unpredictable when they come to market

Winners and losers in the giddy melee of Art Basel Hong Kong

Key talking points and selfie-stops from this year’s fair, which was as much of a cultural melting pot as ever

30 Mar 2016

For devotees of drawings: highlights of Salon du Dessin

Salon du Dessin attracts the world’s most committed drawings collectors. What should they look out for this year?

21 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Xaver Scheidwimmer

Shells, lizards, flowers and Chinese porcelain all feature in this elaborate still life by Balthasar van der Ast

20 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Kunstkammer Georg Laue

This virtuoso carving of Adam and Eve was made by the ‘German Giambologna’, Leonhard Kern

20 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Wallace Chan

This Chinese jeweller is a phenomenon, creating flights of fancy in gemstones

20 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd

Could this Géricault portrait be of the young Delacroix?

19 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Burzio

New exhibitor Burzio offers this rediscovered marquetry prie-dieu

19 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Tornabuoni Art

Alberto Burri’s Rosso nero has a strange beauty

19 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Galerie Kugel

This 360-degree panorama is as extraordinary today as it was 200 years ago

18 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Koopman Rare Art

A pair of wine coolers by one of Britain’s most celebrated gold- and silversmiths

18 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Brame & Lorenceau

Alexander Calder’s exuberant gouache seems closely related to his colourful sculptures

17 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: López de Aragón

This huge, tragic theatre mask from ancient Rome is a sight to behold

16 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Sydney L. Moss

Two wrath-filled guardians of the Buddha keep watch over the Asian art specialist’s stand

15 Mar 2016

New York’s annual celebration of Asian art is underway

Asia Week New York should be considered the TEFAF Maastricht of Asian art

14 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Brimo de Laroussilhe

One half of this diptych is in the Louvre: the other is on Brimo de Laroussilhe’s stand

14 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Johnny Van Haeften

Don’t miss this scene of celebration: a recently discovered painting by Marten van Cleve

13 Mar 2016

Pick of the fair: Daniel Katz Gallery

This recently rediscovered work is a masterly example of terracotta sculpture

12 Mar 2016