Market Insight

A report on the Old Master paintings market in 2022 – what sold well and what the world's first billion dollar auction tell us about collecting old masters.

Our end-of-the-year market report digs deeper into the numbers behind some top selling Old Master paintings in 2021, as well as discoveries and museum acquisitions.

How is the Old Masters market doing more than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic? Our gallery associate Oliver Rordorf presents some trends observed in the marketplace between March 2020 and July 2021.

An original study on the market for anonymous 15th and 16th century Flemish paintings, sold between 1946-2015.

Observations from the Old Masters market in 2020 - a year of disruption and digital transformation for museums, auctions, art fairs and galleries.

Randy Reynolds chats with Tova Ossad about preparing for Brexit.

2019 saw the rare emergence of works by Caravaggio and Cimabue, which topped the auction record for Old Masters this year, as well as superb monographic shows devoted to Breugel, Dürer, da Vinci, El Greco, Verrocchio and Rembrandt.

Old Master sales maintain momentum in the first auction season after the record-shattering sale of Leonardo da Vinci's 450 million dollar Salvator Mundi.

Making sense of the the $450 million record-shattering Leonardo da Vinci, which made over $300 million profit for the seller who originally felt to have overpaid at $127 million.