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Roy Lichtenstein’s €1,000 painting now valued at €50m

Art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York expected to net between $2bn and $2.5bn

Sat May 9 2015 - 00:00

Paul Henry leads Whyte’s art auction

‘Landscape Connemara’ painting was the top lot in art auction

Sat Feb 28 2015 - 01:00

Plastic fantastic or flexible foe? The credit card turns 65

It has been a long and, for many, rocky road since the first credit card transaction was made in 1950

Tue Feb 3 2015 - 06:00

Bauble auctions: something is rotten in the upper reaches of the art market

The spending power of super-rich collectors who are blinded by celebrity is making Old Masters unsaleable while brash works fetch stratospheric prices – and it’s killing a key component in art’s ecosystem

Thu Jul 31 2014 - 01:00

Who’s buying fine art and antiques and why?

In the second part of our summer series – how the international art market is dominated by super-rich investor-collectors

Sat Aug 10 2013 - 00:00

A new era for the art market

A five-part summer series analyses the current state of the global fine art and antiques market

Sat Aug 3 2013 - 00:00

Jackson Pollock and the richest art sale in auction history

Sat May 18 2013 - 02:00

A pop art show that’s gone flat

The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Mac in Belfast attempts to package culture as entertainment, but there’s little depth beneath the veneer

Mon Apr 8 2013 - 06:00

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