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…

Christie’s and Sotheby’s offered up their Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist art earlier this week over in London and the results were uninspiring. Without the buyer’s premium, neither sale made it into the pre-sale estimate range and both left a … More…

Dumb Things People Do at Art Fairs was published in The Epoch Times a few months after my article Dumb Things People Say To Art Dealers .  I am still not sure why these links popped up the other day, but they … More…

I have no idea why, but for some reason a link to an article of mine, that was published on The Epoch Times’ website, popped-up this morning.  While I wrote it a few years ago, it still rings true. I … More…

Christie’s, London, presented their 19th century painting sale on the 14th and as I have said in the past, what a difference one painting can make!  Taking the top spot here was a preparatory study for Eugene Delacroix’s famous painting … More…

On Wednesday the Massachusetts Appeals Court granted the AGO and their investigators more time to finish reviewing the Berkshire Museum’s planned sale of some 40 works of art.  While he gave them until January 29th to finish, he also required … More…

Today we had Sotheby’s sale of 19th century works of art.  While this sale covers the same period of art we see in the New York sales, they usually contain a slightly different mix of works – more Spanish, Swedish, … More…