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Christie’s recent sales brimmed with great works, whethe
Rufus Bird considers whether the market is up or down
Canny collectors should swoop in when an artist falls out of fashion–but always pay attention to quality, because even the greatest names, such as Picasso, made the odd pot-boiler
The Yellow Boy by Joshua Reynolds saw multiple peregrinations, passing even through (Romanian) royal hands for a time, before returning to London in 1981. It now headlines a selling exhibition of magnificent 18th to 20th-century works
Avoiding the curse of the figurative
There’s nothing expected or dull about this Parisian apartment, whose design takes risks by mixing references with studied panache
A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar