According to Jennifer Smith’s article in The Wall Street Journal, the Metropolitan Museum of Art may be forced to change its admission signs again.  According to a couple of lawsuits, the current signs do not make it perfectly clear that … More…

Here is an incredible story about authentication.  Peter Doig, one of the high flying artists of our time, has denied creating the painting at the center of this lawsuit.  The owner says he did and can prove it.  However, according … More…

When impressive works his the market, impressive prices are achieved. Peter Paul Rubens’s Lot and his Daughters was offered yesterday in London and after a 14 minute bidding war, the work sold for £44,882,500  ($58.2M).  by the end of the sale, … More…

Jonathan Jones hopes William Dobson’s Portrait of the Artist (c.1637), which was up for sale yesterday, will be saved for the nation.  The painting carried a £200-300K estimate and sold for £1,106,500 ($1.44M) with the buyer’s premium — a record auction price … More…

A pair of portraits by Rembrandt have found their way into public collections.  It appears that in order to settle a tax bill, Robert de Rothschild needed to sell a Rembrandt portrait he inherited from his father, Alain de Rothschild.  It was one … More…

Nice article by Kelly Crow, in The Wall Street Journal, about the battle over the Goulandris art collection.  According to Kelly, Greek shipping mogul Basil Goulandris and his wife, Elise, aren’t household names, but the 16-year family feud over their … More…

Source: Newsletter Archives – Our 187th edition of Comments on the Art Market was released today … we hope you enjoy it.  This month we cover the recent sales in Europe, the Dark Side of the art world, Stocks, Really! and … More…