Some People Will Need To Pay Up
After 50 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be changing its admission policy. Their current pay what you like policy does not seem to be working out, so now they will charge $25 for visitors who do not live … More…
Gutting A Collection To Pay The Bills
It was just announced that the trustees of La Salle University have decided to sell off 46 works of art from their collection to help fund “teaching and learning initiatives”. As you can guess, this has set off a firestorm … More…
We Are Getting Out Of Control
I really do not know what to say about this. It was recently reported that a teacher in Utah took a set of postcards, featuring works of art, from the school library and passed them around their elementary school classroom. … More…
The Chinese Have a Voracious Appetite … and Not For Food!
It appears that the Chinese are now becoming one of the largest acquirers of art and certain antiques (Chinese antiques that is). There are paying record prices and spending billions upon billions. If they keep up the current pace, 2018 … More…
The Dark Side: Ezra Chowaiki continued…
In Volume 204 of our Comments on the Art Market, we briefly covered the charges brought against art dealer, Ezra Chowaiki. Since then, more information has come to light regarding the now bankrupt art gallery and its crooked dealer. The … More…
A Tangled Web – Rybolovlev, Bouvier & Sotheby’s
Stephanie Baker and Hugo Miller give us more insight into the ongoing legal battle between Rybolovlev & Bouvier. Now, according to Rybolovlev’s lawyers, there was another big player involved — Sotheby’s vice chairman of private sales — Samuel Valette. It … More…
Will They Cash In?
Even though Christie’s claimed that Salvator Mundi was the last da Vinci in private hands, it appears that there are at least two, and maybe three, more: The Madonna of the Yarnwinder, which is on view at the National Galleries of Scotland; The … More…
Art Market Opacity – Guarantees
Art Market Opacity: Since the da Vinci sale, more information about the backroom deals auction houses make has been coming to light. Katya Kazakina gives us an overview of the benefits and risks of auction guarantees. As Ed Dolman (Phillips … More…
AVAILABLE: Fritz Zuber-Buhler’s “Jeune fille”
A very recent addition to our available online inventory. An exquisite study of a young girl by the 19th century Swiss artist Fritz Zuber-Buhler (1822-1896). The artist was born in Le Locle, Switzerland in 1822 and by the age of … More…