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IT would have been the most expensive picture ever sold. At $139m, the private deal between two American billionaire buddies would have upped the record high for any painting by $4m. But the deal is now off.

SCOTLAND Yard’s Art and Antiques Unit are staging an exhibition at the V&A to raise awareness among museums, galleries and art dealers of the problem of fakes in London.

SUBSCRIBERS to auction alerts from the-saleroom.com can now get twice the number of searches for their money.

CONTEMPORARY art has helped the Fine Art Society triple its turnover in the past four years, according to results just released.

CLARION Arts have named their Spring Olympia fair FORM.

VINTAGE fashion fair organiser Edwin Dyson has banned the sale of fur at his events.

Renowned Bristol-born graffiti artist Robert Banks, better known as Banksy (b.1975), has made himself into a globally-recognised phenomenon by planting his subversive guerrilla artwork in the world’s best galleries, museums, and amusement parks.