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Art Market

Empire furniture
District 13 Urban Art Fair: already an institution
An outpost in Versailles for the Osenat auction house
Masterpiece 2019: ending the season on a high note
A break in the tribal art market
Buying Sotheby’s? What an odd idea!
On Monday 17 June, the art world awoke in a state of shock. Businessman Patrick Drahi, who until then had shown little interest in auction houses,…
Zhang Daqian: record-setting artist
Very few know his name in the West… but in 2016, sales of his paintings totted up a grand total of $355 million.
"Turquin Caravaggio": Not Toulouse, but Fifth Avenue
In the end, the "Turquin Caravaggio" was not put on sale at the Toulouse Corn Exchange on Thursday as planned. In the late afternoon of Tuesday 25…
Art loans: already in decline?
The flagship product of the second half of the 2010s, the art secured loan, has been increasingly beleaguered since the start of the year, raising…
U.S. Democracy
When American art is not social, it is political. Americans are passionate about power, propaganda and democracy.
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Jean-Claude Delauney Collections
Becca Cason Thrash: the million-dollar lady
Dazzling Chinese porcelain
Kamel Mennour, still ahead of the game
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16 October 2019 - 01:58
Bonny Poon awarded NADA Miami International Gallery Prize
16 October 2019 - 01:56
Salvador Dalí etching worth $20,000 stolen from San Francisco Gallery
15 October 2019 - 05:05
The Louvre decides against obligatory online pre-reservation
15 October 2019 - 02:46
Millon to host first art auction dedicated solely to Vietnamese fine art at Drouot
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Fairs
Outsider Art Fair: can art brut mix with contemporary…
The Outsider Art Fair has become a meeting place for European collectors…
Market Trends
Empire furniture
A style described by Gustave Flaubert as "imposing and diplomatic"…
Vincent Geerling: Europe hobbles the art market
Now the European Union has adopted new regulations controlling the import of cultural property, what will it mean for the art market?
Gaming tables
Cards, dice, hopscotch, backgammon and trictrac are some of the games played on the selected tables.
Ink: a big future in the art market?
The Asian market is mad about this traditional medium, so conducive to hybridisation and technical innovation, and Western museums and collectors are…
Car mascots
Human or animal car mascots, or hood ornaments, are popular collector’s items, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States. Here are some…