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Christie’s toast ‘highest total in auction history’

16 May 2013

Christie’s evening sale of Contemporary art in New York last night posted a hammer total of $435.5m (£294.2m).

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Art Market

Trade bid for rise in ARR threshold

13 May 2013

Art dealer Niall Fairhead is leading a new campaign to persuade the Government to raise the Artist’s Resale Right threshold from €1000 to the €3000 stipulated by the European Commission.

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Soutine’s pastry chefs leads Christie’s sale

09 May 2013

A painting by Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) entitled ‘Le petit pâtissier’ was the top lot of Christie’s latest evening sale of Impressionist & Modern art in New York.

Art Market

Glimmer of hope for at least some of Cork Street’s dealers

08 May 2013

Some of the galleries affected by redevelopment in Cork Street, Mayfair, have been given hope that they can move back once the work is completed.

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Dealer News

£125,000 grant to fund advisers for national online art archive

07 May 2013

The ambitious project that made 210,000 publicly-owned oil, tempera and acrylic paintings available to view online for free has taken another important step forward thanks to winning £125,000 funding.

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Art Market

New saleroom force for Melbourne as Leski merge with Mossgreen

07 May 2013

Two auction houses are joining forces in the latest shake-up to affect the Melbourne scene.

International

Couture cache to be sold off

07 May 2013

Paris auctioneers Gros & Delettrez have announced the sale of 350 lots of haute couture from Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain, muse to the late Yves Saint Laurent in the 1960s, and later an artistic advisor at Dior.

International

Previews

Mixed results but ground-breaking sale finds a market for some Western antiques in China

03 May 2013

Twenty-something UK regional auctioneers and four container loads of Western antiques en route to south-east China. What could possibly go wrong?

Auction Reports

International

Swann and Rountree merge companies

03 May 2013

GALLERY NEWS – Jamie Rountree of Rountree Fine Art and Oliver Swann of Tryon Gallery have announced that they will merge their two companies under the new name of Rountree Tryon.

Dealer News

Taxidermy is far from a dying art, says London specialist

02 May 2013

“An armadillo for you, from Jonathan Ross,” says the courier as he returns a box midway through my interview with Alexis Turner.

Dealer News