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  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    The Art Market
    Sotheby’s lands $400mn Emily Fisher Landau collection

    Intimate Picassos offered by Ward Moretti; Christie’s set to make Paula Rego record; new ‘non-fair’ for London

  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
    The Art Market
    Freddie Mercury sale at Sotheby’s beats estimates as buyers want it all

    Frieze fairs clash in New York and Seoul; Pace to open in Japan; Simon Lee’s artists find new homes

    A man with a moustache stands on a street in Tokyo
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    News in-depthAltice Europe NV
    Altice fraud arrests throw spotlight on Drahi’s elusive right-hand man

    Co-founder and key troubleshooter Armando Pereira was kept away from investors

    Montage of Altice logo, Armando Pereira and Patrick Drahi
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    The Art Market
    Sotheby’s Klimt gives London sales a record-breaking boost

    Christie’s sells Signac after settlement agreement; report finds ‘flipped’ art doubled in 2022

  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    London’s summer art scene
    London’s summer auctions major on portraits old and new

    From Gustav Klimt to Elizabeth Peyton, pictures of people are some of the hottest lots

  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    Non-fungible tokens
    Three Arrows Capital’s NFT collection sold for almost $11mn at auction

    Record sale for collapsed crypto hedge fund’s pieces comes despite broader downturn in market for digital assets

    Dmitri Cherniak’s ‘Ringers #879 (The Goose)’
  • Friday, 9 June, 2023
    Art Basel 2023
    Hélène Leloup, pioneering dealer in African art, is selling prize pieces

    The auction at Sotheby’s in Paris reflects the taste of one of Europe’s earliest gallerists in the field

    A woman in sunglasses looks cool in front of a blue painting of a bare-breasted woman
  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    Sotheby’s buys New York landmark from Whitney in near $100mn deal

    Auction house moves closer to heart of city’s art scene with purchase of brutalist Marcel Breuer structure

    The Breuer building
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    The Art Market
    Art market boom hits the buffers

    $20mn Rothschild collection comes to auction; adviser Lisa Schiff faces lawsuits; rare books bring out the buyers

    A man stands in front of a colourful colleages artwork on a silver wall in the gallery of an art fair
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    The Art Market
    New York auctions get the jitters

    Taipei fair back in force; Ortuzar Projects doubles space in Tribeca

  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Centuries-old Hebrew Bible sells for record $38.1mn at auction

    The buyer, Alfred Moses, says he will donate the Codex Sassoon to a museum in Tel Aviv

    The Codex Sassoon Hebrew Bible
  • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
    The Art Market
    Early Yayoi Kusama works come out of Dutch collection

    Alison Jacques boosts Cork Street; Sotheby’s has Warner Records chief’s $120mn collection; gallery reopens in Kyiv

  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    The Art Market
    Bumper New York sales feature $50mn collection

    Nan Goldin goes to Gagosian; Andy Warhol Foundation hits $3mn through eBay; change of direction at Cromwell Place

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    The Art Market
    Sotheby’s gains Richter, London loses Masterpiece fair

    Galleries test Singapore’s market; Patti Wong sets up advisory business in Hong Kong

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    The Art Market
    ‘Glittering smokescreen’ of auction highs masks a nervous market

    Record 20th year for Artcurial; another Paul Allen Canaletto on the block; Modern Art to exhibit Dutch artist René Daniëls

    Auction room featuring Marilyn Monroe painting projected on the wall
  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    The Art Market
    Auction sales slide in Hong Kong

    Asia stalwart Patti Wong leaves Sotheby’s; Frank Auerbach on the rise; Danish hidden gem at Christie’s

    Abstract picture of red and green stripes made with a squeegee
  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    ReviewThe Art Market
    Is the art market finally cooling?

    Collections sell well but New York auctions show signs of slowing; Gagosian gathers outside expertise; Shanghai fairs close early due to zero-Covid policy

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    The Art Market
    Dealers delighted with debut of Paris+ par Art Basel

    Plus: museums step in at Hôtel Lambert sale; solid auctions in London; handsome African art fair

  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
    The Art Market
    Sotheby’s gets $100mn collection of postwar art

    Paul Allen’s works revealed; Arne Glimcher opens ‘selfish dream’ gallery; dealer pleads guilty in $86mn fraud

  • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
    The Art Market
    Sotheby’s takes on galleries with new primary-market channel

    All the buzz from Frieze Seoul; UK fair organiser urges new government to undo Brexit hurdles

  • Friday, 26 August, 2022
    Collecting
    Works of a great collector, from jade and rare Chinese porcelain to Degas and Vuillard

    Spectacular collections in the London home of the late businessman and philanthropist Sir Joseph Hotung

    A silver-inlaid bronze corner piece with dragon figures
  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    ObituaryLily Safra
    Lily Safra, philanthropist and art collector, 1934-2022

    The much-married socialite was known for using her powerful status to further her charitable endeavours

    Lily Safra at her villa in the south of France, La Leopolda, in 1991
  • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
    The Art Market
    New York auctions dominate record first half of 2022

    Luxembourg + Co opens in Fuller Building; Perrotin doubles up in Seoul; slim Old Masters sales

    An auctioneer at a podium in front of an audience. Behind him is a blue picture of Marilyn Monroe
  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    Collecting
    London sales show signs of buyer fatigue

    UK works sell well at Masterpiece; African art at Christie’s; Hôtel Lambert trove; new fair director at Art Basel; Deborah Roberts piece helps charity

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    Masterpiece London 2022
    Jewellery by artists from Picasso to Grayson Perry reaches new heights

    Often overlooked as a minor part of their practice, jewels are attracting major market attention

    Three items: a doll-shaped pendant; golden cast of a woman’s lips and chin; a golden circle with horns
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