Auctions

Post-war artists at auction: The price of being female

Auction houses are finally including more women artists(21)

Edvard Munch's "The Scream": Iconic angst

An ironic epilogue for the sad, poor Norwegian artist(63)

Daily chart: The $cream

Despite breaking records, Edvard Munch's "The Scream" is not the most expensive artwork ever sold(28)

The art of auction valuation: Matters of opinion

What to make of a complicated trial over a long gold chain(12)

India’s telecoms scandal: Megahurts

What a scandal says about government and business in India(59)

The art market: Financial machinations at auctions

The increasing use of guarantees is confusing the auction business(11)

Chinese art buyers: The new Medicis

Will Chinese buyers acquire a taste for Western art?(28)

Selling Gerhard Richter: The bold standard

A successful painterly life(4)

Fine-wine fraud: Château Lafake

The fine-wine boom is attracting forgers(10)

Stuart Cary Welch's legacy: Brand loyalty

A successful sale of lesser works from an important collector(1)

Contemporary art sales: The wizards of the Warhol market

How big is his market anyway?(6)

Impressionist and modern art auctions: Scarce supply, fussy demand

Few sellers care to gamble on an auction these days, to the dismay of discriminating buyers(0)

Imperial Chinese porcelain: Auction houses bite back

The art market learns the consequences of not paying up(1)

Islamic and Indian art: The more the merrier

Big prices for bold miniatures at auction(10)

Islamic art: A connoisseur and his treasures

Stuart Cary Welch’s collection was auctioned this week for record prices(5)

The Maastricht art fair: A subdued gathering

The art market may have rebounded, but newspapers full of grim headlines have curbed luxury spending(0)

Contemporary art: The market sprawls

Economic growth is on hold all over the industrialised world, but the art market is running rampant(7)

Impressionist and Modern auctions: Bringing home the Bacon

Some auspicious signs in a very fickle art market(2)

The art market: Look, don't touch

Rather slowly, the buying and selling of art and antiques is going online(2)

Bond spreads: This little piggy went to market

Portugal's successful bond auction comes at a price(64)

The Chinese art market: Expensively unpredictable

The market for imperial Chinese art is full of record-breaking prices and quite a few surprises(10)

Art-title insurance: Peace of mind

Can art collectors protect themselves if a painting they own isn’t really theirs?(3)

Contemporary art at auction: A passion that knows no bounds

Philippe Ségalot's “Carte Blanche”, the auction as self-portrait(1)