Art collection

The art collection of German curator Kasper König brought €6 million ($6.5 million) at an auction in Cologne. Rudolf Hans König, better known as Kasper König, was a prominent name in the German art scene. Born in 1943, König started…

The Bourse - historic stock exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark home to numerous artworks - caught fire early on Tuesday. The fire was first reported at 7.30 am local time on Tuesday. Soon, firefighters were swarming The Bourse, as the…

Art collector and investor Leon Black has agreed to pay $62.5 million to the US Virgin Islands, to settle all claims related to his involvement with sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein, a prominent financier at the time, was…

Update: A previous version of this article mistakenly attributed the cause of death as 'natural'. We apologize for this grievous error. Thomas H Lee, businessman and art collector, died due to suicide at the age of 78 on Thursday. His…

The art collection of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, will be sold at a mega auction at Christie’s. Once the auction gets finalized, it will be the most expensive single-owner art collection ever to be sold in an auction.…

The Spanish Ministry of Culture has confirmed that it will be buying the 120,000 objects in the collection of Spanish businessman José María Lafuente. The massive collection of Lafuente Archive boasts 120,000 avant-garde artworks. 19,000…

After the Citibanamex Bank announced its split earlier this month, the fate of its prestigious art collection has caused a stir in Mexico. The Citibanamex Bank is a coalition of the National Bank of Mexico and Citigroup since 2001.…

Prominent art collector Lonti Ebers will be launching a new art space in Brooklyn to promote experimental art. The art program was first announced in 2018 and was scheduled to be launched in 2019, but delayed due to unknown…

Prominent art collector and real-estate mogul Sheldon H. Solow died on Tuesday at New York’s Cornell Medical Centre. His death at the age of 92, first reported by Bloomberg, was said to be due to lymphoma. Sheldon Solow was one of the…

An enigmatic painting, thought to be lost during Nazi persecution, has been decided to remain in the hands of the museum that holds it.  Titled “Madonna and Child with the Young St John and Two Angels”, the painting was made by Jacopo…