When London’s sleepy art trade was jolted wide awake
An insider account by a former head of Sotheby’s in the UK recounts how London’s post-war art market took off in the 1950s and has kept on reinventing itself
How Van Gogh invented the art of the future
The National Gallery has pulled off a seemingly impossible feat – to allow us to experience the intensity of the artist’s vision as if for the first time
Parcours des Mondes offers a world of opportunity
The Paris event celebrating art from around the world returns this autumn with a new focus on modern and contemporary work
‘I know exactly what I am looking for’ – Helen Hamlyn on collecting with purpose
The philanthropist’s pursuits range from collecting Asian art to restoring ruined buildings
The Castilian ruin that is now a haven for contemporary art
Collectors Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras are bringing new life to a 16th-century Jesuit school
What to see at TEFAF Maastricht 2024
Highlights at this year’s edition include a gold-ground painting, a French landscape by Turner and a woodblock print by one of Japan’s Living National Treasures
A collector with a nose for fine wine and fine art
Henning Hoesch is a winemaker with a habit of making distinctions that extends to his collection of Old Master drawings
Breath of fresh air – Gerhard Richter in the Alps
Three exhibitions in the Engadin Valley explore how the Swiss mountains have inspired some of the painter’s most playful work
Fired up – Daniel Katz on his passion for Islamic pottery
The dealer has made his name through antiquities, Old Master sculptures and modern British art – but when it comes to his own collection, it’s the Islamic world that sets his heart alight
The avant-garde artists who went wild in Paris
Fauvism may have been a short-lived movement, but the explosively colourful compositions of Matisse, Derain and co. remain undimmed
Parcours des Mondes takes a truly global approach
This year’s edition of the event in Paris includes more dealers from more countries and offers an astonishing range of artefacts
What to see at TEFAF Maastricht 2023
Highlights at this year’s edition include the marble head of a young Roman man and a bejewelled reliquary that was once owned by Charles II’s queen
The grand restoration of Palazzo Butera
Fresh connections between contemporary art and Old Masters come to the fore in this 400-year-old palace, which has been transformed into a museum and home
Robert Kime (1946–2022)
The collector, dealer and interior decorator, who started trading antiques from his rooms at Oxford as an undergraduate, has died at the age of 76
Parcours des Mondes is back in full force
This year’s event aims to entice a wider range of collectors and exhibitors back to the galleries of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris
Drawn to greatness – the personal collection of Katrin Bellinger
Once a renowned dealer in Old Master drawings, Bellinger’s own collection includes all kinds of works on paper and oils – and she’s committed to sharing what she has
Parcours des Mondes snaps into action in Paris
The annual event for dealers of art from around the globe celebrates its 20th anniversary on the Left Bank
Made You Look – a true crime doc that should terrify art collectors
The knavery and folly of the rarefied art world are writ large in a documentary that picks over the Knoedler forgery scandal
Will this Renaissance boy be the next big thing at auction?
After the Botticelli, another great Florentine portrait looks set to fetch millions – but it hasn’t always been so highly valued
Richard L. Feigen (1930–2021) – a legendary art dealer whose own private collection was the toast of New York
The renowned art dealer has died at the age of 91. In March 2014, he opened up his extraordinary private art collection to Apollo, in an interview republished in full here
What does 2021 hold for the wounded art market?
The art market, like many other business sectors, is not about to revert to its pre-pandemic appearance
A sale in Cologne turns the spotlight on Georges de La Tour
Only one of the artist’s celebrated night scenes remains in private hands – and it comes to auction at Lempertz in Cologne next month
A museum of Islamic art in Jerusalem is selling works to make ends meet
The museum is selling part of its collection of Islamic art as well as some extraordinary timepieces
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The saga of the Salvator Mundi is catnip for film-makers
Two documentaries on the ‘lost Leonardo’ have found the story’s sensationalism irresistible – but hard facts are as absent as the painting itself