Antiques: Optimistic Dealer Decides to Gamble on Japanese Art
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As many antiques dealers are beginning to close their shops and sell privately, Joan B. Mirviss has decided to buck the trend and open a gallery of Japanese antiques.
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The owner of the Elvis Is Alive Museum, a fading outpost of Americana, is auctioning the museumâs contents on eBay.
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One of the pioneers of offshoring tries to cash in.
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The West as seen through Japanese eyes, in an ambitious show at the Seattle Art Museum.
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The sale broke the artistâs record and underlined the enduring market influence of the workâs latest owner, the collector Charles Saatchi.
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The renewed appetite for art as an investment is drawing attention to a small number of scholars who have been applying economics to this new asset class.
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Yixing ware is the focus of a small but fascinating exhibition at the China Institute gallery.
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In the auction world almost nothing is more intriguing than fresh, unknown collections. Sothebyâs has found a new route to them this fall: outsourcing the saleâs expert.
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Impressionist art still brings out the  big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on  Wednesday pulled in $92.5 million and showed that contemporary  art sales are where the action.
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The vast, high-end Paris antiques gallery has planned a three-city sale this fall to auction 1,000 of its antiques with Christieâs.
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An unknown painting by old master El  Greco, discovered by chance in a brown envelope in a flat in  Spain, will be offered for sale in December with a starting  price of 600,000 pounds ($1.1 million).
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters Life!) - In what could be the most valuable sale they have ever staged in Europe, auctioneers Sotheby's said on Wednesday they expect to raise more than 100 million pounds ($195 million) from an Impressionists' auction next week.
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In Japan, that is. The game player's surprising pricing there may indicate what the U.S. market can expect.
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Paintings by such luminary artists as Gauguin, Matisse and Monet will be auctioned next week by the city's top two auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, in separate impressionist and modern art sales.
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There's nothing like a little variety to spice up an auction, especially when it comes to the collections of one of the biggest names in numismatics.
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An art collector has paid about $2.3 million for a $1,000 U.S. bill printed in 1890, the auction house that brokered the transaction between two anonymous private collectors said Friday.
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Christie's is eyeing to break its HK$1.2 billion ($154.2 million) Asia sales record next week when it auctions artworks and jewelry from a region that is all the rage with wealthy international and Chinese buyers.