Market - Finestre sull'Arte

Alessandra Di Castro (Apollo Group), "Need art-related tax reform: Italy deserves a different future"

Alessandra Di Castro, an antiquarian with a long and relevant experience, has been chairing since 2024, and until 2026, the Apollo Group, which represents the art industry in Italy and brings together antiquarians, art dealers, galleries of ancient, ...
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Even in Spain, gallery owners denounce too high VAT compared to France and Germany: 'It's discrimination'

As in Italy, galleries in Spain report a difficult situation for the art market due to the failure to reduce VAT on artworks. In fact, the Spanish government continues to apply a21 percent VAT rate to the art market, unlike Germany and France, where ...
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Incredible auction in Genoa: a Salvator Mundi estimated at only 2,000 euros was sold for more than 200,000

Exceptional result for a Salvator Mundi of the Caravaggio school passed at auction at Wannenes in Genoa on April 15: the work, given generically to a "Caravaggesque painter of the 17th century," an oil on canvas nearly five feet high by about three f...
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The Three Graces, a masterpiece by Carlo Finelli, goes to the Tefaf in Maastricht

The Roman antiquarian gallery Antonacci Lapiccirella is bringing to the 2025 edition of the Maastricht Tefaf one of the most significant imarmoras groups by Carlo Finelli (Carrara, 1785 - Rome, 1853), who was among the greatest Neoclassical sculptors...
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The Italian art market between legal challenges and opportunities

The Italian art market is faced with challenges involving both the regulatory framework and the need for renewal of a bureaucratic-administrative apparatus that, by its very nature, adapts with difficulty to the dynamics of a rapidly changing sector....
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Reducing VAT on works: the art world's crocodile tears

The failure to decrease VAT is certainly a problem for the Italian art market, which is losing competitiveness with galleries from France, Germany and around the world. But this is not the pincer that suffocates the art market, especially if we think...
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Auctions from Feb. 26 to March 4: paintings, furniture and jewelry

In the new installment of our auction column, we will find out the best deals from Feb. 26 to March 4. From February 28 to March 11, Wannenes opens the Jewelry auction. It is an online-only auction. For photography enthusiasts, Finarte opens the Ph...
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Playing among the pavilions. An overview of the 12th edition of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

Who hasn't wondered, "When did I stop playing?" At some indefinable moment of transition between childhood and adolescence we abandoned puppets and balloons in our bedrooms-at least those of us who had one to ourselves-to devote ourselves to what see...
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