The Old Master market is becoming increasingly selective. Exceptional, fresh-to-market paintings can draw bidders far beyond their estimates, while doubts over price, condition or attribution are punished severely. Scarcity is…
Anyone researching a painting by Roelant Savery will almost inevitably encounter Kurt J. Müllenmeister’s critical catalogue raisonné of 1988 and its 1991 supplement. Yet recent auctions show why simply finding…
For the paintings of Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (c. 1500-1559), there is no modern catalogue raisonné. Yet the international art market follows a consistent pattern in which Friedländer, Horn, expert opinions…
More than thirty years after its publication, Reine de Bertier de Sauvigny’s catalogue raisonné of Jacob and Abel Grimmer continues to appear with striking regularity in auction catalogues. Sometimes it…
Buying a painting at a regional auction, researching it, cataloguing it more accurately and subsequently offering it to a broader audience. It is the classic way of working in the…
The first sneak preview for Hampel’s September auction does not yet suggest a sale dominated by one star lot. Several of the paintings have also appeared on the market relatively…
A small portrait by Jacometto Veneziano fetched €1.25 million ($1.46 million) in February, far above its estimate. The result does not stand alone, but nor has every Venetian portrait of…
Anyone who has followed Old Master auctions in recent years will have found it increasingly difficult to overlook Abel and Jacob Grimmer. From Paris to New York, and most recently…