There are those collectors who love the art no matter how small, and there are those who won’t look at a piece if it doesn’t reach a certain size.  This “column” is for the former.  Having addressed the merits of collecting small art works before, I would now like to further the discussion by drawing [...]

A collector on whose behalf I am about to bid at auction just posed the following question: how many years back has the art market now retreated? To provide a satisfactory answer, one would have to do a formal statistical analysis, for which I have neither the tools, time, nor inclination.  Shooting from the hip, [...]

What is it with me and Picasso bronzes?  Judging by my last two unsuccessful attempts, it looks like I’m fated to be the eternal underbidder.  Last year I did my best to catch a small dove, but it got away for around 217K or so (http://ledorfineart.com/blog/?p=100 ).  This time around, I was hot on the [...]

Looks like we won’t have a chance to see the blockbuster Gagosian show.  By now I’ve however looked through the catalogue a couple of times and am deeply impressed by the assortment of wonderful paintings he amassed for it. (I’m not so big on late Picasso prints, with a few notable exceptions.)  John Richardson’s essay [...]