{"id":22110,"date":"2015-10-08T16:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=22110"},"modified":"2023-12-28T05:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T10:10:58","slug":"a-tug-of-war-over-art-sales-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/10\/a-tug-of-war-over-art-sales-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tug of War Over Art-Sales Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article in The New York Times by Scott Reyburn on the art world and what some people feel is a lack of transparency &#8230; and at certain levels, especially in the upper end of the auction world, they are probably correct. \u00a0It is going to be an interesting upcoming season. \u00a0For the full article, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/28\/arts\/international\/a-tug-of-war-over-art-sales-transparency.html?ref=international&amp;_r=0\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/28\/arts\/international\/a-tug-of-war-over-art-sales-transparency.html?ref=international&amp;_r=0\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/28iht-reyburn28b-blog427.jpg\" alt=\"28iht-reyburn28b-blog427\" width=\"299\" height=\"452\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Gainsborough &#8220;The Blue Page,&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article in The New York Times by Scott Reyburn on the art world and what some people feel is a lack of transparency &#8230; and at certain levels, especially in the upper end of the auction world, they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/10\/a-tug-of-war-over-art-sales-transparency\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,46,9],"class_list":["post-22110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-auction","tag-investing-in-art","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Tug Of War Over Art-Sales Transparency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/10\/a-tug-of-war-over-art-sales-transparency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Tug of War Over Art-Sales Transparency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nice article in The New York Times by Scott Reyburn on the art world and what some people feel is a lack of transparency &#8230; and at certain levels, especially in the upper end of the auction world, they are &hellip; More...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2015\/10\/a-tug-of-war-over-art-sales-transparency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/howard.rehs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-10-08T16:30:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-28T10:10:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/28iht-reyburn28b-blog427.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Howard L. 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