“We are a technology platform, not an auction house,” said Mark Poltimore in 2000. The onetime auction boss wants to make European sales more accessible to US and UK audiences
The textile trade, especially in carpets, will improve but metalworks and manuscripts are still restricted
An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.
Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world
Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000
The welcome failure of droit de suite, the impact of internet sales and the future of YBAs and optimism about the Tate Modern
Fontana moves from Hayward exhibition to commercial gallery, Basquiat’s drawings come to the City and the centenary of the charming Ardizzone is celebrated
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
Abbot and Holder, Colnaghi, Maas Gallery, Lumley Cazalett Contemporary Applied Arts, Fine Art Society, David Black, Bloomsbury Workshop, Whitford Fine Art
A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
Carolyn Sergeant's energised flower studies and Peter Coke's seashell constructions will also receive exposure this month
Also on show are Ewan Uglow’s precise drawings at Browse and Darby and the diverse talents of Underwood at the Redfern Gallery
Asian art and antiquities are strongly represented
Shifting between figuration and abstraction with the St Ives school, Kitty North's residence-cum-gallery, Andrew Gifford's textured surfaces and Warhol's studio re-imagined
Survival hints (just in case)
The art market strengthened and the salerooms saw their profits leap, however the pre-tax profits of dealers fell
Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989
The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals
Top lots go to private collectors, but the Italian State and European dealers put up a fight
Report from the British Art Market Federation shows the UK art market employs 50,000 people
From gunmakers to silversmiths
London may be the loser in the end, but the Brits brought it on themselves
Sixteen French dealers join the Anglo-Saxons with Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern art
Sales of the catalogue have raised nearly £35,000 for the Samaritans
But heavy disappointment for collector Basia Johnson as recently acquired works failed to sell
Too few collectors, and too specialised, to guarantee success even for masterpieces
But £60 can still buy you quality
