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Vintage cars set Bonhams on the road to Paris sales
25 February 2008Bonhams staged their first auction in France on February 9 with a sale of vintage automobiles at the Retromobile car fair in Paris.
Big two lead the call for further auction law reform in France
05 February 2008SOTHEBY’S and Christie’s have launched an unprecedented attack on France’s auction laws in a bid to halt Paris’s decades-long decline as a market force.
Sotheby’s double Paris sales total
09 January 2008For the first time, a trio of auction firms pulled clear of the field in Paris in 2007.
Dandois and Steinitz light up New York
05 November 2007When the last of the 823 lots in the sale of the contents Ariane Dandois’ Gallery on the Faubourg St Honoré in Paris was hammered down by Sotheby’s on October 26, it provided a $32.2m (£16.9m) grand finale to a month of sales devoted to traditional areas of the decorative arts in New York.
French Auction Weekend 2007
29 October 2007FRENCH auctioneers are to hold their next open weekend of events on November 17-18.
Sotheby’s up the stakes in Paris
29 October 2007Sotheby’s have posted their highest price in Paris since the French auction market was opened to foreign firms in 2001.
French look to scrap due diligence in bid to protect their art market
15 October 2007THE French government are so concerned about their dwindling share of the global art market that they have come up with a four-point plan to rescue it. They include a measure that effectively calls for the scrapping of due diligence for auctioneers.
French auctioneers get a taste of the British antiques scene
08 October 2007A delegation of 17 members of the Syndicat National des Maison de Ventes Voluntaires (SyMEV, the main body representing French auctioneers) was in England last week for a three-day study tour investigating different aspects of the UK market.
Christie’s €100m dominance of Paris auctions
13 August 2007Half-yearly Paris figures to August showed Christie’s consolidating their lead with sales of €100.3m (£67.3m), nearly twice as much as their nearest rivals, ArtCurial.
French auction watchdog sounds the alert over global competition and EU policy
02 July 2007France’s share of the global auction market fell by 5.8 per cent in 2006, warns the Conseil des Ventes, the national auction watchdog, in its annual report published on June 25. Worldwide auction activity, it says, rose 34 per cent over the same period.
Boulton’s €170,000 vase
02 April 2007The Birmingham industrialist and designer Matthew Boulton was the toast of the Paris salerooms last week when this impressive ormolu-mounted fluorspar vase was sold at Drouot Richelieu for €170,000 (£121,430) plus premium.
Sotheby’s acquire Drouot firm to strengthen in Paris
02 April 2007Sotheby’s – who were outsold by Christie’s in Paris last year three to one – have announced a series of moves designed to reposition their Paris branch as “one of the pillars of the group’s global strategy”.
Europe wakes up to threat of droit de suite
12 March 2007There are signs that many other member states are waking up to Britain’s warning of the threat of droit de suite, or the artists’ resale right, to the European art market.
Christie’s secure big lead in Paris
08 January 2007Christie’s confirmed their Paris dominance in 2006 by posting sales of €200.8m (£135m), up 74 per cent on the previous year.
Droit de Suite nets £1m in its first year
03 January 2007THE British art trade has paid out over £1m since Droit de Suite came into force at the start of the year. Despite some initial bureaucratic difficulties, the Artists’ Resale Right appears to have been implemented more smoothly in Britain than in other European countries.
Reform the reform say French auctioneers
16 October 2006The reform of auction law forced itself to the top of the agenda when delegates from SYMEV, France’s national auctioneers association, sat down at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris on October 3 for their annual conference.
Top French award for London Chinese dealer
16 October 2006Giuseppe Eskenazi, London’s pre-eminent dealer in Chinese works of art, has been appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d’honneur for services to the arts.
New Paris gallery to champion European decorative arts
02 October 2006ON September 12 – the week the Paris Biennale returned to the Grand Palais – Paris celebrated another notable development on the city’s art scene with the launch of Galerie Historismus at 9 Place de Vosges, the oldest square in Paris.
Pelham move operation from London to Paris
02 October 2006ESTABLISHED in London since 1928, Pelham Galleries have moved out of their well-known Mayfair showrooms in Mount Street and are now based in their greatly expanded gallery at Rue de Varenne, Paris.
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