SIMON STUDER started his career in a basement vault in a warehouse complex near the heart of this city, known for international banks and outrageous prices. It was a strange job. Every day, someone would open the vault and lock him inside until it was time for lunch. Then he’d be let out of the
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Courtesy of Stephen Justesen of TKM gallery. “Realism in Russian Art of the Second Half of the XX Century”. The Tkachev Brothers, Valentin Sidorov, Vladimir StozharovAleksei Gritsai, Sergei Gerasimov, Yuri Kugach. On July 4th, The State Russian Museum opened a major exhibition of Russian Realism from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. This period
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Over 5,175 UK and international collectors, many of who had flown in especially to attend the third fair has confirmed Masterpiece in a unique position as a central force to the international art market. ‘This year has seen Masterpiece London settle in and cement its position at the centre of London’s vibrant art market…’ said
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The wealth of the super-rich is keeping the miracle going but mostly for the best works By Charlotte Burns. Market, Issue 237, July-August 2012 Published online: 05 July 2012 Art-world royalty: David Rockefeller with his record-breaking Rothko The top end of the art market appears to keep climbing, despite fresh crises in the currency and banking
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Painting By The Numbers, We shouldn’t judge quality of fine art by the dollar amount being paid by a collector” but we can’t help but be interested after The Scream went for $120 million. In early May, Munch’s The Scream was sold by Sotheby’s for $119.9 million, making it the highest price achieved for a painting to
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Munch The Scream lithography (Photo credit: Wikipedia) (This thoughtful article by Martin Sosnoff on the current enormous prices recently seen at the art auctions came out in Forbes). I relish evening contemporary art auctions in the Big Apple.  It gives me a feel for the breadth and intensity of bidding on specific pieces of interest. 
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Why Picasso is Attractive for First-Time Art Buyers…And Auctioneers Blue-Chip Period What a performer! Ivan Lindsay on the reasons why that randy old goat Pablo Picasso remains so irresistibly attractive to neophyte art collectors (not to mention auctioneers) A RECENT BLOOMBERG article led with the line: ‘Pablo Picasso has been dethroned.’ The article was referring
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Drawing Conclusions………By Ivan Lindsay The recent record price of £29.2m for a Raphael drawing confirms demand for important Old Master drawings. On Tuesday 8th December at Christie’s London a Raphael drawing entitled Head of a Muse was sold for £29.2m, doubling its estimate of £12m–16m and setting a world record price for a work on
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Family Jewels Faberge heirs buy back the name and relaunch the jeweller by Ivan Lindsay Fabergé, jeweller to the last tsars, the British royal family and the European aristocracy before WWI, has been re-launched this summer by Sarah and Tatiana Fabergé.  The two cousins, the last surviving great-granddaughters of Peter Carl Fabergé, have teamed up
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‘Russian Art Revolution,’an introduction to the emerging Russian art market, Country House magazine, Issue No. 3, May 2007. A sleeping bear awakes Anyone working in upmarket real estate, oil, gas, diamonds, timber, mining or metals will already be aware that the Russians have arrived. The marriage between Russia’s vast natural resources and Western markets is
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