My juices are flowing with a quotation of a dealer, Gordon VeneKlasen in Carol Vogel’s Inside Art column in today’s...
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Auction Industry Growth Report: Dealers Loss
I just read in the Antiques and Arts Weekly newspaper that the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) reported that the art...
Where Are The Buyers
Try the Internet. Since the advent of eBay, the growth of the Internet for trading art and antiques has been...
Dealers Should Listen To This Threat
Amy Cappellazzo, who is in charge of contemporary art at Christie’s, crowed in a recent interview, “We’re the big-box retailer...
Bargain Time For Antiques-NY Times article 2/8/07
Dealers in the antiques business got a reality check in today’s New York Times. On the front page of the...
AN AVOCATION AS A VOCATION
There are very few jobs that one could think of as being hobbies and hobbies one could only imagine as...
SOTHEBY’S-CHRISTIE’S: COLLUSION OR UNFAIR ADVANTAGE?
(SOME THOUGHTS I HAD BACK IN 2002. THIS WEEK CHRISTIE’S JUST MATCHED SOTHEBY’S RECENT BUYER’S PREMIUM INCREASE) When all the...
Divvying up the Decorative Arts Pie
It’s time for me to stop belly aching about the auctions for a moment and reflect upon what I think...
The auctions again-the deception game
See if you can follow me! I am a dealer and you ask me a price on something in my...
The auction-the conflict of interest advantage
In my prior blog, I made a statement that auctions as now practiced “in my mind are illegal, manipulative, deceptive,...