How to collect art on a budget

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

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

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.

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...
Shakespeare’s autograph

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

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

Rediscovered Salvador Dali paintings to sell

The Dali paintings belonged to an Argentinian collector

Picasso’s Le Matador to make auction debut

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 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

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

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

Samuel Palmer’s Shoreham Church sets record

Palmer’s A Church With A Boat And Sheep made $2.1m at Sotheby’s

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