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Is bypassing a gallery as lucrative as it seems?
The boom in international demand for contemporary art has seen more and more living artists begin to sell at auction. But who stands to gain?
A confident return for Asia Week New York
Galleries, auction houses and museums come together to celebrate ancient and modern Asian art
A long-lost pastel by Picasso re-emerges
The work belongs to an important sequence of drawings created in 1903, culminating in the famous Blue Period painting ‘La Vie’
Picasso’s portrait of dying love promises to fetch a high price
The artist once said that ‘it must be painful for a girl to see in a painting that she is on the way out’
‘There is enduring interest in the stories of the Pre-Raphaelites’
The market for the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers is steady and growing, bucking the trend for Victorian painting
A Mexican dog in an early modern menagerie
How an ancient breed of hairless dog made its way into the Habsburg art collection
A pair of Easter Island treasures emerge
A sleek, modern aesthetic ups the selling power of a pair of Polynesian dance paddles
Canova’s lost portrait bust of Joachim Murat has come to light
Until recently, experts were unsure where this extraordinary portrait bust of Napoleon’s brother-in-law had ended up, or whether it had survived at all
The Asian Art in London Art Awards 2017: The Winners
Apollo presents the winners of this year’s Asian Art in London Art Awards
Howard Hodgkin’s collection comes to auction
The painter amassed a huge variety of bold and fascinating artworks over the years – many of which are soon to be sold at Sotheby’s
‘Anyone who is interested in the Renaissance should be interested in medals’
It may be a small and specialist market, but it is still possible to find exquisite portrait medals at affordable prices
London’s major modern and contemporary sales
Auction highlights in October include a dramatic Jenny Saville painting, a late Philip Guston work, and rich Islamic textiles
Why it’s time for auction houses to start talking to each other
Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, discusses the challenges and opportunities facing the auction sector
Celebrity collections kick off the autumn auctions
The personal collections of Edward Albee, Vivien Leigh and Mario Testino come to the block this month
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
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
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
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?
May madness gets underway in New York
Plus: art fair shake-ups in Germany and an Ottoman art record in London
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