It is out!  Volume 230 of our monthly newsletter Comments on the Art Market.  In this issue, we cover the two gallery exhibitions: Mark Laguë’s A Big Apple Adventure and Antoine Blanchard’s A Trip Down Memory Lane; upcoming shows in … More…

  So, you may be wondering, what is the best way to light a work of art? Natural light (sunlight) that filters into a room is, of course, the easiest.  It is important to keep in mind that you do … More…

At the end of January, Sotheby’s presented a rather lackluster sale of 19th-century European paintings; a sale illustrating the continued difficulty auction rooms are having sourcing good quality works. What I will say is that I was surprised that some … More…

Recently, we have been bombarded with news of the British Royal Family and a little matter called Megxit; well 84 years ago, Harry’s great-uncle “Eddie” had to make some big choices too about his family and the throne. In January … More…

A childhood passion turns into a big score for Simon Hope, founder of H & H Classics, a British auction house that specializes in classic cars and motorcycles. His love of cars began at an early age when he would … More…

Back in 2017, an unnamed dentist from Neuss, Germany, presented 20 works by Picasso to a number of auction rooms.  The only issue, they were all fakes (with falsified certificates of authenticity), and he was caught.  On January 28, 2020, … More…

Here is an interesting legal matter regarding copyright.  An artist, by the name of  Jake Berman, decided to create his own map of the New York Subway System. Well, the MTA discovered that the artist was selling copies of it … More…