An article in the New York Times this week questions the continued struggles of the Old Masters market, and the collector tastes that have led to a decline in buyer interest. “We have no intention of selling old masters pictures or 18th-, 19th-century pictures, because these markets are now so small and dwindling,” says Phillips head Edward Dolman. “The new client base at the auction houses — and the collecting tastes of those clients — have moved away from this veneration of the past.”Read more at NYT
