How About One Million Dollars Not To Sell?
The Art Newspaper reported that an anonymous group of donors offered the Berkshire Museum one million dollars with the stipulation that the museum take its art off the auction block for at least a year and try to come up … More…
That Did Not Take Very Long!
I knew it would take very long for the other ‘major’ auction house to up its buyer’s premium. Nate Freeman states in his ArtNews article that Christie’s is widening the brackets for prices charged the highest fees and increasing … More…
It’s Going To Cost You More
For the third year in a row, Sotheby’s has announced that it will increase its buyer’s premium. According to an article in the Financial Times: Buyers will pay 25 per cent of the hammer price up to and including $300,000 [it was … More…
£1 – Really?
Jailed conman and forger, Richard Pearson, has been ordered to pay back just £1. According to Karon Kelly’s article in the Sunderland Echo, the 56-year-old fraudster had convinced the owners of a gallery in Corbridge, Northumberland, that he had access to … More…
Science Helps Turn £35,000 Into £2,000,000!
According to Henry Bodkin’s article in The Telegraph, every week, Philip Mould breaks the hearts of fellow art dealers as he reveals the disguised masterpieces they let slip through their fingers on the BBC’s Fake or Fortune? Well, recently, Mould … More…
Mr. President — GOODBYE!
The governmental fallout from the recent Charlottesville riots continues to grow. Today, a letter was sent to President Trump informing him that all members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, created in 1982 under President Reagan, … More…
JUST SOLD: Berthelsen’s “5th Avenue Looking South from 59th Street”
Johann Berthelsen – 5th Avenue Looking South from 59th Street Here is the pair to the sold painting of Grand Central Station, by Berthelsen, that I posted the other day. Even snow will not keep people from getting to that Bergdorf’s sale! … More…
ARC SELECT 2017: Contemporary Figures
PRESS RELEASE – Rehs Contemporary is pleased to present ARC Select 2017: Contemporary Figures, an exhibition focusing on the stylistic variations of representing the human form in contemporary art. The subject of the human form and its depiction is a perennial theme, … More…
Comments on the Art Market – Volume 201
Source: Newsletter Archives – we just released Volume 201 of our Comments on the Art Market. In this issue we cover Tales from the Dark Side, Really (updates from the collectibles market), Stocks and the all important Art Market (our thoughts … More…