Art Market
Art Basel takes a historical turn
Why artists’ estates were the talk of the fair. Plus collector selfies, the cheapest piece at Basel and medieval books in a contemporary world
Art Basel strives to look beyond the exclusive world of the fair
This year’s edition has a notably political edge, while the Art Basel organisation is working on wider cultural partnerships
Inspirational drawings from Delacroix to Auerbach go on display in London
Admiring a drawing is ‘like looking over the artist’s shoulder’, says Stephen Ongpin
The fall and rise of the second school of Paris
This loose group of European artists lost out to the American Abstract Expressionists in the 1960s. But are we seeing a revival of interest?
Sonic spheres and ‘phallic variations’ at Art Basel
Who said art fairs prefer ‘safer’ pieces? What to expect from Art Basel…
International auction houses keep faith in Hong Kong
Anna Brady on Hong Kong sales, plus a round-up of the top art market headlines
What not to miss during London’s summer art season
Masterpiece London, Art Antiques London, London Art Week, and the Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia all return to the capital this year
The leading Lot at Christie’s this summer
Rubens’s epic painting of Lot and his Daughters treats a morally ambiguous subject with great artistic subtlety. It’s bound to do well at auction
‘This is the moment international attitudes to British art should change’
Christie’s celebrates the great tradition of British painting this month
Would Brexit destabilise the art market?
Would a ‘leave’ vote spell disaster for the UK’s thriving art trade, or open up new opportunities to it? Two experts debate the question
Will Picasso’s Cubist portrait live up to the auction-house hype?
The estimate is far short of the $100m+ prices notched up in recent years – but then this is a Picasso more cerebral than sexy
Megan Piper and the young gallerists making their mark on London
The contemporary art gallerist’s alliance with an antiques dealer epitomises the changing art world
The final Spring Masters New York offers a glimpse of things to come
In 2017 Spring Masters will be reincarnated as one of two hotly anticipated TEFAF New York fairs. It’s hard not to see this year’s event as a soft launch
Mitchell, Monet and the Master of Kasadi come to auction
Bacon, Warhol, Rothko…All the usual big-hitters appear in this month’s blue-chip sales. For the sake of variety, here are a few other highlights
The growing craze for American folk art
Collectors love it for its graphic power – and Europe’s growing interest in outsider art could widen the market
Painting steals the show at Art Cologne
Contemporary painting in Germany is flourishing, if the highlights of Cologne’s art fair are anything to go by
Sotheby’s sells ‘the handsomest man in Europe’
The elegant Bernard Boutet, medieval chess pieces and a vibrant, miniaturist Madonna feature in our preview of April’s art market
What is Dada? (And how much is it worth?)
Dada ‘anti-art’ works are deliberately contradictory. They’re also notoriously unpredictable when they come to market
Winners and losers in the giddy melee of Art Basel Hong Kong
Key talking points and selfie-stops from this year’s fair, which was as much of a cultural melting pot as ever
For devotees of drawings: highlights of Salon du Dessin
Salon du Dessin attracts the world’s most committed drawings collectors. What should they look out for this year?
Pick of the fair: Xaver Scheidwimmer
Shells, lizards, flowers and Chinese porcelain all feature in this elaborate still life by Balthasar van der Ast
Pick of the fair: Kunstkammer Georg Laue
This virtuoso carving of Adam and Eve was made by the ‘German Giambologna’, Leonhard Kern
Pick of the fair: Wallace Chan
This Chinese jeweller is a phenomenon, creating flights of fancy in gemstones
Pick of the fair: Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd
Could this Géricault portrait be of the young Delacroix?
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