Les résultats prévisibles des ventes aux enchères confirment les avantages des ventes privées ou de gré à gré Chris Varley, un de nos distingués collègues, a fait paraître récemment quelques-unes de ses observations - avec lesquelles je suis en grande partie d’accord - portant sur trois ventes aux enchères. Notez...

Those of you who have read Reminiscences of an Art Dealer, published by my father in 1993, will recall his enthusiasm for the painterly ability of Sam Borenstein and his frustration at not being able to sell them as he would have wished, especially in his early days and at...

Paul Vanier Beaulieu was a Montreal native who spent the post-World War II years painting in Paris and rubbing shoulders with such luminaries as Picasso and master printer Georges Leblanc. His work was celebrated by his contemporaries, but as part of the European art movement he hasn’t had the recognition...

Having just returned from attending three auction sales held over a period of less than one week when two of the three houses left their catalogue cover paintings unsold and the third, although not the cover picture, the lot anticipated to be the most costly offering, did not meet its...

Claude A. Simard Galerie Walter Klinkhoff would like to remind you that our exhibition and sale of paintings by Claude Simard begins Monday, May 11. You are cordially invited to the vernissage which takes place at 7:30pm. The exhibition can be previewed here. The paintings are available for purchase prior...

Souren Melikian, in The International Herald Tribune of March 20 2009, reported on the 239 art dealer supported Maastricht art fair, one which focuses primarily on Old Master pictures ... ''Business is blooming against all odds in the art market when the rest of the world economy shrinks. As the...

The application of this concept to unique works of art, paintings for instance, is self-evident and popularly accepted. When applied to works of art done in multiples, that is prints, photographs and sculpture for instance, 'authenticity' is more ambiguous. The fundamental issues are quality of supply and quantity of supply.

Would you phone your stock broker today and give him an irrevocable instruction to sell your $300,000 worth of shares of Company X 'at the market' on May 27, 2009 at 10:35 a.m.? No, I would not think that to be a prudent decision. So why would you deal with...