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The art market

August 2022

  • Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 by Georgia O’Keeffe on display at the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland.

    The perils of living in a man’s world

  • Beaten by Jeff Koons … Jenny Saville’s Propped was auctioned for $12.5m.

    ‘Mind-blowing’: Why do men’s paintings cost 10 times more than women’s?

May 2022

  • One of the most truthful eyes in art … Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, Effet de Brume.

    Smog, glorious smog: how Monet saw through London’s poisonous wealth

  • Maud Lewis in 1970.

    Painting traded for a cheese sandwich in 1973 sold at auction for C$350,000

March 2022

  • A gallery employee poses next to a painting by the Russian artist Erik Bulatov, entitled Sky and Sea, at Sotheby's in London

    Elite auction houses cancel Russian art sales in London

  • Phillips auction house in Berkeley Square, London

    Russia oligarchs still able to exploit UK art market loopholes, experts say

January 2022

  • A woman looks at Jean-Michel Basquiat's In This Case, which was sold by Christie’s for $93m

    Crypto tycoons help drive global art market to record levels in 2021

    Newly wealthy and pent-up demand from Covid-hit 2020 among reasons as sales of sought-after works boom

December 2021

  • A worker at Sotheby's auctions hangs Sandro Botticelli's Young Man Holding a Roundel.

    Sotheby’s sells record $7.3bn of art so far in 2021

    Auction house credits younger, tech-savvy collectors for highest annual sales in its 277-year history

November 2021

  • Frida Kahlo's Diego y yo (1949) at Sotheby's in New York

    Frida Kahlo self-portrait beats sale record set by cheating husband

    Diego y yo (1949) sells for $34.9m to become most expensive Latin American work to go under the hammer

October 2021

  • Everydays: The First 5,000 Days

    NFTs drive sales of contemporary art to record £2.7bn

    Non-fungible tokens boost post-pandemic recovery as Hong Kong emerges to challenge New York

September 2021

  • Samson and Delilah, 1609-10, said to be by Peter Paul Rubens

    Was famed Samson and Delilah really painted by Rubens? No, says AI

    Long-held doubts about the authenticity of the National Gallery’s masterpiece, bought for £2.5m in 1980, are backed by pioneering technology
  • Minister Of State Lord Gowrie<br>British Conservative Party politician and Minister of State for Employment, Grey Ruthven, Lord Gowrie pictured in his office in London on 8th May 1979. (Photo by United News/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

    Lord Gowrie obituary

    Conservative politician whose background in literature and fine art equipped him well as an arts minister for Margaret Thatcher
  • The Lost Leonardo

    The Lost Leonardo review – attribution and avarice on the trail of Salvator Mundi

    The story of the hotly disputed discovery and sales of a purported new Leonardo da Vinci work doesn’t paint the art market in a flattering light

May 2021

  • Nike Air Yeezy sneakers, designed by Kanye West, on display in Hong Kong before sale at Sotheby’s.

    Sole traders: how sneakers became as collectable as art

  • Detail from Le rendez-vous d’Ephèse. Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)

    ‘We go after them like pitbulls’ – the art detective who hunts stolen Picassos and lost Matisses

February 2021

  • A view of the State Hermitage Museum

    Russian Fabergé exhibition contains 'at least 20 fakes', expert says

    Andre Ruzhnikov accuses director Mikhail Piotrovsky of ‘destroying the authority of the museum’

November 2020

  • Sandro Botticelli’s Madonna and Child (circa 1470)

    A family feud, a mystery firm and the Botticelli masterpiece that quietly vanished

    Whereabouts of $10m painting are unknown as legal fight over its ownership continues

October 2020

  • Evelyn Dunbar, A Sussex Garden (These are the largest files available)

    Lockdown culture
    Back in the frame: the extraordinary artists Britain forgot

    A Hidden Gems exhibition lays bare museum-grade works that have fallen into oblivion in musty studios and attics – more often than not by women

August 2020

  • My Rembrandt

    My Rembrandt review – Old Master fanciers in the frame

    The super-rich collectors and dealers in Oeke Hoogendijk’s amusing documentary come right out of Rembrandt paintings themselves

June 2020

  • Bill Traylor’s drawing Man on White, Woman on Red given by Steven Spielberg to Alice Walker.

    Former slave Bill Traylor's artistic legacy under threat from forgers

    Dozens of fakes are on the market after one drawing of life in the US deep south sold for a record $507,000
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