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A rising market: contemporary decorative arts
Is it design, or art, or craft? Who cares. One thing is certain: the British are best at it
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with Simon de Pury: “Photography may slacken off; design has great potential”
Phillips’ international star talks about plans for the future, guarantees and what happens to those unsold pictures
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Original 1860s decor has been restored at the V&A
Victorian collectors’ pictures back on display
ArchiveArt fairs
Local collectors made up for the lack of Americans and museum buyers at Asian Art in London week
Asian bidding dominated the saleroom sessions
ArchiveArt market
Strong demand for Old Master paintings from private collectors boosted prices in summer sales
Rediscovered Rembrandt made £6.9 million
ArchiveCommercial galleries
What's On: Vuillard frenzy in London
In accordance with a major show alighting at the Royal Academy, Wolseley Fine Arts have arranged a show of his pastels and drawings
ArchiveExhibitions
Survey of Sarah Raphael's work to open at Marlborough Fine Arts
The artist was a darling of the contemporary art world when she died in 2001
ArchiveMarch 2003
The Dulwich Picture Gallery organises sponsored walk to meet £100,000 shortfall in annual budget
Museum director will don Clarks shoes and fill his pockets with Kendal Mint cakes for the 150-mile trek
ArchiveInterviews
Interview with a British dealer Pat Jordan Evans on her gallery's 30th anniversary
An out-of-town gallery thrives on showing gentle, figurative painters
ArchiveSotheby's
Decorative arts today: Where to find that coffee-filter ballgown
Contemporary applied crafts on show at Sotheby’s
ArchiveArt market
Diary of a London dealer: Alistair Sampson. Yes, trade is dreadful at the moment
Leading specialist in early English decorative arts expects a slow improvement in trade
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Christie’s Picasso sale saw prices soar; but the highest-priced lots were the least desired
Most of the unsold lots were high-value items unlikely to attract new buyers
ArchiveArt market
Works of St Ives School artists continuously increasing in popularity
Leading the pack are Nicholson and Hepworth, while prices for Lanyon, Hilton and Heron are rising dramatically
ArchiveChristie's
Legal proceedings against Victorian paintings collector to recoup Christie’s loan
American stockbroker owes in the region of £2 million
ArchiveArt dealers
Veteran dealer, Richard Philp on why young collectors aren’t buying antiques
“Dealers must overcome the interior decorator mentality”
ArchiveArt fairs
TEFAF: The world’s greatest fair offers yet another feast of art and antiques
Old Masters were booming, but decorative arts were a hard sell
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Sotheby’s allies with eBay
Sothebys.com will be operated by the auction giant
ArchiveExhibitions
Rare chance to buy Warhol's Mao pieces
Mao was perceived as an icon by Warhol
ArchiveArt fairs
Are the decorative arts finally sexy? Europe’s first international crafts fair gets under way this month
Collect is to be held at the Victoria and Albert Museum this February
ArchiveArt market
Demand for prints and multiples has increased with the rise of the contemporary art market
Are today’s “limited edition prints” really original, and will they gain in value? Probably not
ArchiveArt market
The Art Newspaper has selected ten pieces which have appeared on the art market over the past 10 years in this sales report
The supply of great art is slowing, but wonderful things still appear on the market
ArchiveAuctions
Best ever Scottish sale at Christie's
Six of the richest Scots and international collectors bid on the collection of the Fleming merchant bank
ArchiveWallace Collection
Boulle ancient and modern
An exhibition of classic French marquetry coincides with the completion of a contemporary cabinet-maker’s work with the same technique—but cut by laser
ArchiveArt market
BADA Survey shows 2000 was an excellent year for dealers
Highest ever turnover for members
ArchiveJewellery
Books: Henri Vever's Bible of French jewellery studies
The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing
ArchiveBooks
What's on in London: The house that crashed on Japan and other urban dilemmas
Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons
ArchiveArt market
People prefer new rugs
Valentine’s Day sale for Davide Halevim’s farewell to the carpet trade
ArchiveArt market
Art Deco furniture rules the auction houses and a new sales record was set as the style replaces 18th-century furniture
Prices are rocketing, but perhaps not everything is right in this field with many experts questioning the authenticity of some pieces
ArchivePhillips
A new head of Asian art at Phillips: Interview with Colin Sheaf
“London remains a huge centre for collectors all over Europe”
ArchiveArt fairs
At Asian Art Week in London dealers, scholars and collectors congregate for major shows and great parties
Fifty-two participants will exhibit everything from Indian statue jewels to Islamic tiles
ArchiveOctober 2000
Former Christie's director launches online venture eAuctionRoom.com
“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
ArchiveUSA
Trade embargo on Iran partially lifted
The textile trade, especially in carpets, will improve but metalworks and manuscripts are still restricted
ArchiveCollectors
A London Victorian watercolour collector sells up. “With contemporary art you know there will be another work around the corner”
An American financial market strategist has put together a major collection of nineteenth-century British watercolours.
ArchiveArt market
Disappointing sales for sothebys.com
Only a quarter of the lots are selling, mostly at prices under $5000
ArchiveArt market
Christie’s close down Spink and take over the building for corporate headquarters
Serving a possibly premature coup de grâce to the oldest art dealership in the world
ArchiveExhibitions
What's on in London: Gwen John times two, with lots of unseen work
Fontana moves from Hayward exhibition to commercial gallery, Basquiat’s drawings come to the City and the centenary of the charming Ardizzone is celebrated
ArchiveLeslie Waddington
Leslie Waddington: Always a Londoner
The welcome failure of droit de suite, the impact of internet sales and the future of YBAs and optimism about the Tate Modern
ArchiveAuction Report
London auction report: Sotheby’s and Christie’s last month show strong performances for Impressionists in London
Many new, middle-aged, collectors, say Christie’s
ArchiveArt market
Fifty percent is brought by men
Geoffrey Munn gives an insider view of the last year
ArchiveCommercial galleries
Hanging around in London: monthly guide by Elspeth Moncrieff. Christmas shopping special
Abbot and Holder, Colnaghi, Maas Gallery, Lumley Cazalett Contemporary Applied Arts, Fine Art Society, David Black, Bloomsbury Workshop, Whitford Fine Art
ArchiveAuctions
Vincennes and Sèvres from the Pirie (including Plumb) Collection sold at Christie's New York
A true collectors’ market, with almost 100% demand
ArchiveClarice Cliff
Clarice Cliff collectors unite
A record-breaking sale and a forthcoming exhibition at Stoke-on-Trent
ArchiveEdgar Degas
What's On in London: July '99 to see major Degas show and resurgence of Philpot
Carolyn Sergeant's energised flower studies and Peter Coke's seashell constructions will also receive exposure this month
ArchiveWhat's on
What's on in London: Glass extravagance at Mallett's and Richard Green’s cabinet of Dutch delights
Also on show are Ewan Uglow’s precise drawings at Browse and Darby and the diverse talents of Underwood at the Redfern Gallery
ArchiveArt fairs
The European Fine Art Fair Basel: International dealers, local audience
Asian art and antiquities are strongly represented
ArchiveWhat's on
What's on in London: Two Julian Trevelyan exhibitions mark a decade since his death and Toko Shinoda's first major show in the city
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
ArchiveArt market
Experienced art dealers advise on how to survive during a time of economic confusion
Experienced dealers tell The Art Newspaper how they weathered previous slumps
ArchiveArt market
Winners and losers of the market 1996-97
The art market strengthened and the salerooms saw their profits leap, however the pre-tax profits of dealers fell
ArchiveArt fairs
A marked improvement at Grosvenor House and Olympia
Collectors from all over the world turned up with lots of money and confidence—and so did the British
ArchiveAmedeo Modigliani
Sainsbury's wedding present to fund Japanese cultural studies in East Anglia
Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury sell major Modigliani
ArchiveCollectors
A famous collector sells up: punitive Spanish export laws induce me to sell, says Jaime Ortiz-Patiño
Golf is the new passion of millionaire who has sold Impressionists and French decorative art to the tune of $91.48 million since 1989
ArchiveAuctions
State intervention on humanist manuscripts in Feltrinelli Library sale at Christie's
Top lots go to private collectors, but the Italian State and European dealers put up a fight
ArchiveAuctions
Sotheby's Old Master sale of '98 one for the books, trouncing Christie's with £30.9 million in proceeds
The old favourites - Italian views and Dutch landscapes - make record-breaking totals
ArchiveArt market
The UK art market: A £2.2 billion industry
Report from the British Art Market Federation shows the UK art market employs 50,000 people
ArchiveExhibitions
Masterpieces of the Zuloaga family courtesy of a Middle-Eastern millionaire
From gunmakers to silversmiths
ArchiveArt market
A tribute to British savvy in a time of increasing globalisation
London may be the loser in the end, but the Brits brought it on themselves
ArchiveInternational Fine Art Fair
Armory's International Fine Art Fair report: International dealers chase diverse US spending power
Sixteen French dealers join the Anglo-Saxons with Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern art
ArchiveExhibitions
5,000 visitors in ten days to see Wartski’s tiaras
Sales of the catalogue have raised nearly £35,000 for the Samaritans
ArchiveArt market
A solid return of the Old Masters market, with the Dutch living up to their full potential
But heavy disappointment for collector Basia Johnson as recently acquired works failed to sell
ArchiveArt market
Volatile market evident at Christie's Sculpture and Works of Art sales '97 with bids few and far between
Too few collectors, and too specialised, to guarantee success even for masterpieces
ArchiveArt fairs
London Original Print Fair is a serious event for real collectors
But £60 can still buy you quality
ArchiveArt market
A growing and buoyant Chinese art market suggests “No one should underestimate the strength of the Chinese diaspora”
1996 saw high prices and new records with the Chinese determining the shape and make up of future sales
ArchiveCollectors
Christie's sell clock collection confiscated from fanatic Francis Vitale following his sacking for embezzlement
Christie’s succeeds with the sale of goods recently in the trade and much restored
ArchiveAuctions
Michael Caine’s Art Nouveau fetches £500,000
The film star was a serious pioneer collector
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Exemplary £2 million refurbishment of the silver galleries at the V&A opens this month
Please touch, learn—and enjoy
ArchiveArt market
Christie’s to auction unclaimed works of art confiscated from Austrian Jews by the Nazis
8,000 works stored for over forty years in the medieval monastery at Mauerbach