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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Scott Reyburn
With its enormous wealth, the Middle East has long been viewed by the international art trade as a prime market for expansion. Art Basel, the world's largest organizer of commercial modern and contemporary art fairs, will be holding a new event in Qatar, in 2026. The fair is scheduled to take place in Doha in February, according to a statement on Tuesday from Art Basel, its Swiss-based parent company MCH Group, Qatar Sports Investments and a Qatar-based organization called QC+.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anna Brady |Scott Reyburn
Christie’s is to sell a view of Venice by Canaletto which was once owned by Britain’s first prime minister, Robert Walpole, in its Old Masters evening sale on 1 July. It is estimated to make in excess of £20m. Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day (1731-32) was last sold at the Paris auction house Ader Tajan in 1993, the first time it had appeared at auction in over 250 years.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Scott Reyburn
If you want to see signs of growth, don’t look up at the top, look further down the price scale. This seems to be the one ray of positivity shining through the otherwise fairly uniform gloom of the recently published reports on the state of the art market in 2024.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anny Shaw |Ermanno Rivetti |Scott Reyburn
The art market is one of the many international business sectors that is wondering what is going to happen to its sales figures in 2025 as US President Donald Trump’s wildly unpredictable executive orders—and a whole lot else—disrupt the global economy.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Melanie Gerlis |Scott Reyburn |Kabir Jhala
Christie’s and Sotheby’s went head-to-head in Hong Kong last week, creating an auction season around the city’s Art Basel fair for the first time, which helped to boost the energy levels in the salerooms. Each auction house brought slimmer evening sales than the last time they were here (Christie’s in September, Sotheby’s in November), with fewer big-hitting blue-chip works.
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2 months ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Scott Reyburn
A rediscovered painting of an African prince by Gustav Klimt that captured visitors’ attention at the TEFAF Maastricht fair in the Netherlands is under negotiation for sale, the Vienna-based gallery offering the work said as the event closed on Thursday evening.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Scott Reyburn
Wienerroither and Kohlbacher says Klimt's painting came to light in 2023 when an Austrian couple brought the unsigned work, crudely framed and in a grimy condition at the time, into the gallery.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Anna Brady |Anny Shaw |Scott Reyburn
New government policies, political shifts, economic downturns and changing market dynamics—all are having a marked impact on salaries in the art industry, according to the second SML Art Market Talent Report, released today. Compiled by the specialist recruitment company SML and the analytics firm ArtTactic, the report draws from 1,590 responses completed between 2023 to 2024 and paints a less than rosy picture.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Scott Reyburn
A medieval manuscript unseen for 60 years, hand-painted by the renowned French illuminator Jean Pichore and his workshop, is one of the most spectacular exhibits at the 38th annual edition of the TEFAF Maastricht fair, which previewed to invited guests on Thursday. "This is world history," said Dr. Jörn Günther, an illuminated manuscript dealer in Switzerland, pointing to an illustration in a book of hours.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Scott Reyburn |Anny Shaw |Riah Pryor
This month sees the 38th edition of Tefaf Maastricht, the last remaining major international fair that primarily showcases pre-20th century art and objects. The event allows Old Masters, which for centuries were the trade’s most valuable and coveted items, but which have now fallen out of fashion, to briefly enjoy a little limelight in a market now dominated by the contemporary. Dating back to 1988, Tefaf Maastricht, which this year features 266 participating dealers, has become an outlier.
