Art & Photography
How to collect art on a budget
Affordable art fairs offer collectors the opportunity to invest in pieces that won't break the bank. But how to spot a gem amidst those more genera...
New: The letter that saved a lost masterpiece
In a dark damp cellar in the suburbs of Paris...
Surrounded by scurrying rats and rusted old tools...
There sits a lost masterpiece.
A monumental ...
An exciting opportunity - if you're bold enough
This is Gerhard Richter.
The world's greatest living painter.
Described by critics as “the Picasso of the 21st century”.
He's also one of the most...
Rare. Original. A defining 20th century autograph.
Some autographs speak for themselves.
You don't need to explain why you own them.
Everybody understands why they're important.
They're the most fa...
The world’s most valuable signature
Day in day out we sell some of the world’s rarest autographs.
From James Dean to Henry VIII, if you can imagine it we’ve either got it or can get ...
How to spot art forgeries
Following last week's Ask Paul, a reader asks how they can spot a forged piece of art.
Rediscovered Salvador Dali paintings to sell
The Dali paintings belonged to an Argentinian collector
Picasso’s Le Matador to make auction debut
Picasso painted his Le Matador self portrait three years before his death
Jean-Auguste Ingres drawing stars in Rockefeller sale
Jean-Auguste Ingres was a big influence on the modernists
Lewis W Hine’s Mechanic at Steam Pump to sell in February
Hine is the most celebrated documenter of America’s industrial age
Pair of Canaletto paintings reach $4.1m in New York
Canalatto is still the most sought after Venetian view painter
Samuel Palmer’s Shoreham Church sets record
Palmer’s A Church With A Boat And Sheep made $2.1m at Sotheby’s
