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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Check out RubyLux’s latest blog post, The Modern Art Collector’s Guide, featuring tips and advice from Alyssa. The Modern Art Collector’s Guide Posted by TIFFABF on August 13, 2017 via Rubylux.com ‘Art collector’ is a term that holds a certain … More…

Antiques dealer Eila Grahame died back in 2010.  By 2016, a Cambridge auction room was instructed to sell the contents of her gallery.  During a previous valuation of the contents, there was mention of two possible Giacometti drawings, but they … More…