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International bid to block worst effects of art levy
27 April 2005A GATHERING of Europe’s leading art market professionals is calling on the European Commission to delay extending the worst effects of Droit de Suite after 2012 in the UK.
Seagram collection enjoys steady flow, as maiolica drips slowly
13 April 2005CERAMICS SALES IN FRANCE £1 = €1.44A collection of drink-related objects and another devoted to Italian Renaissance maiolica were two very different single-owner properties on offer on the same day at the Paris auction house ArtCurial (17.5/10% buyer’s premium) last month.
Culture committee review spells more trouble over Droit de Suite
12 April 2005THE added tax burden of Droit de Suite, which comes in at the beginning of next year, could be far worse than feared.
Drouot theft and recovery
04 April 2005A SMALL Renoir portrait painted in 1913, with an estimated value of €170,000-200,000 (£120,000-140,000), was stolen from the Tajan premises in Paris shortly before it was to be offered at a sale on March 31.
Rosebery’s duo leave for French château
04 April 2005TWO long-term directors of auctioneers Rosebery's are to leave southeast London to pursue a career offering antiques themed breaks from a Pyrenean château.
Institutions rally to the memories of Clemenceau
15 March 2005Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), the First World War leader known as The Tiger, and also famous as the editor of L’Aurore, who published Zola’s J’Accuse at the height of the Dreyfus Affair, was the subject of an unusual sale at Osenat (15% buyer’s premium) in Fontainebleau on February 13.
Vendor’s ceramics strategy backfires
09 March 2005Annie Kevorkian was also the expert at a sale staged by Cannes Auction (19% buyer’s premium) at the Hôtel Martinez on La Croisette on February 20, dominated by a locally-consigned, single-owner collection of Ottoman ceramics.
Weaving a tale of cross Channel commerce
08 March 2005THE memory of a long-ago, short-lived trade agreement between England and France was rekindled by an extraordinary embroidered waistcoat that surfaced in the Deburaux & Associés sale in Paris on February 11, when it sold to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich for €5000 (£3470) plus 20.33% buyer’s premium.
Salon now proves as much of a draw at the Bourse
01 March 2005The annual Paris Salon du Dessin will showcase 30 of the world’s premier drawings specialists at the Palais de la Bourse in Paris from March 16-21.
Now Tajan son quits
28 February 2005François Tajan, chairman and principal auctioneer of Tajan SA, France’s leading auction firm for many years, is quitting the company and will leave at the end of April.
Lesser-known stars shine
21 February 2005Two unfamiliar French artists, Gustave Cariot and André Marchand, figured strongly at Tajan’s Modern art sale on January 31.
Louvre bid $4.2m for Messerschmidt ill temper
07 February 2005Franz Xavier Messerschmidt (1736-83) was one of the most extraordinary figures in the history of Western art.
Christie’s stay ahead in Paris
25 January 2005For the second year running, Christie’s posted the highest auction total in Paris, with sales of €86.4m (£61.7m), up five per cent on last year.
Nadar – before the photos
11 January 2005Nadar (1820-1910), real name Félix Tournachon, is best known as one of the leading specialists in early photographic portraits.
Ruhlmann and Royère head the rest
04 January 2005OVER 2000 lots in the field of 20th Century Decorative Arts were offered for sale in Paris in late November and early December. The most lucrative Art Deco sale, at Christie’s on December 1, ran to 107 lots (93 sold) and yielded a hammer total of €2.04m (£1.43m), with a top price of €340,000 (£238,000) for a lacquered screen by Eileen Gray (c.1915). A 1927 lacquered coffee table by Gaston Suisse, with eggshell and oxidised silver decoration, tripled estimate on €55,000 (£38,500).
US fine art market leaves France behind says Artprice study
01 December 2004THE gap between the French and American art markets has dramatically widened in the past two years.
Kupka’s factory job
14 October 2004THE Mira Jacob Collection sale at Bailly-Pommery-Voutier & Sotheby's (23.92 - 14.35% buyer's premium) included a smattering of drawings and watercolours by artists outside the dealer’s sphere of influence – from a small Picasso ink sketch of a Glass and Jar, bought in at €44,000, to a Degas pencil portrait of Thérèse Degas, 11 x 8 1/2in (28 x 22cm), which sold at a quadruple-estimate €77,000 (£52,400).
Filiger is the solo choice
14 October 2004DELVAUX and Redon were among eight artists granted solo exhibitions at Jacob’s Bateau Lavoir gallery in Rue de Seine between 1960 and 1986, along with James Ensor, Charles Filiger, Bernadette Kelly, Pierre Klossowski, Marie Laurencin, and Paul Wunderlich – all represented at Bailly-Pommery-Voutier & Sotheby's (23.92 - 14.35% buyer's premium), notably Filiger with 13 lots, and Ensor with eight.
£530,000 day suggests more Anglo-French sales are on the books
14 October 2004DAY two of the sale of the Mira Jacob Collection, held by Bailly-Pommery-Voutier & Sotheby’s (23.92 - 14.35% buyer's premium), was devoted to prints and illustrated books and yielded €780,000 (£530,000) with all but seven of the 166 lots selling.
Biennale – £8m gems theft
07 October 2004TWO diamonds with a reported value of nearly £8m were were stolen from the Chopard stand at the Paris Biennale.
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