The Swiss-born billionaire/socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein, who transcended tabloid headlines, has died aged 84. Her dramatic life and surgically altered visage… Read More
4 January 2025
A Paris court has delivered a verdict against French-American art dealer Guy Wildenstein, concluding a protracted legal battle over tax evasion.
6 March 2024
Paris Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein appeared in court yesterday for the third time since he was accused of Tax Evasion.
20 September 2023
Louvre’s 72% Visitor Drop – Wildenstein Family Back In Court – Richard Serra’s Qatar Sculpture Defaced
9 January 2021
The French billionaire art dealer Guy Wildenstein has been cleared of tax fraud after a second trial collapsed in Paris on Friday.
30 June 2018
The French government are gunning for a conviction in the Guy Wildenstein case and are now appealing against an earlier ruling this week to acquit the scoundrel and seven others of tax fraud charges.
16 January 2017
The billionaire art dealer Guy Wildenstein, has been cleared of tax fraud and money laundering in a Paris criminal court today (12 January).
12 January 2017
Whilst a major exhibition by the Italian Renaissance painter Caravaggio prepares to launch at the National Gallery in London, the Wildenstein money-laundering trial involving a key painting by Caravaggio continues in Paris. The Painting which is now in storage in Switzerland complicates issues around the estate of Daniel Wildenstein, Guy Wildenstein’s father.
12 October 2016
The trial of the Wildenstein art-dealing family for tax evasion is set to continue despite the presiding judge rejecting
27 September 2016
The trial of Guy Wildenstein head of the New-York based art industry, Wildenstein and Company has been suspended
7 January 2016
Prominent figures from the Wildenstein art dealing dynasty are expected to go on trial in France for tax evasion and money laundering
24 December 2015
The Court of Appeal in Versailles has ordered the elusive international art dealer Guy Wildenstein, to pay a €20 million… Read More
2 October 2014
Guy Wildenstein the French/American art dealer and foundation trustee has been charged with tax evasion and money laundering
7 February 2013
Guy Wildenstein, the billionaire art dealer has been formally accused of “receiving fraudulently obtained goods” after 30 paintings
8 July 2011
Guy Wildenstein and his brother Alec have been surrounded by more scandal than any other wealthy family bar the Kennedys and the Gettys
23 April 2011
The Haggin Museum in California has addressed a long-standing mystery with its latest exhibition, The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin.
24 October 2024
The owner of the LVMH luxury goods conglomerate Bernard Arnault, is reportedly under scrutiny in France over suspicions of money laundering.
5 October 2023
Welcome to the Artlyst Frieze Week 2022 printable pull-out Guide. This is our curated choice of events
7 October 2022
Claes Oldenburg, the first-wave Pop Artist who turned everyday objects into hard and soft sculptures, has died aged 93.
18 July 2022
Egyptian Sphinxes A Tiepolo Drawing And Two Newly Discovered Van Gogh’s found in gardens, lofts and cellars.
18 October 2021
London’s contemporary sales both evening and day at Sotheby’s and Christie’s have totalled £295 million ($407 million).
10 March 2018
It has been a challenging year in the art world with record auction prices and soaring fair costs.
29 December 2017
Tucked under the church off Weighhouse Street in Mayfair I found Iain Michael Brunt; whom after a move from impressionism into modern art has the rights to show art ‘Public Art’ on the Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair
21 October 2017
The artist, critic, poet, and Booker prize-winning author John Berger has died age 90. Best known in art circles for his essay of art criticism, ‘Ways of Seeing’, it accompanied a popular BBC series and is still used as a university text. Berger was a novelist, painter, and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize.
2 January 2017
What is an art Scandal? Find out here in Artlyst’s Top Ten Art Scandals!
24 December 2016
The most comprehensive study of Jasper Johns’ work to date, Including never before exhibited works and a new monograph is to be published by The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI). The five-volume publication was announced for release in April 2017.
14 December 2016
The controversial Panama Papers, in which a cache of leaked documents revealed the true extent of various
15 April 2016
Fiona Rae was among the generation of artists who rose to prominence after studying at Goldsmiths in the mid-1980s. In… Read More
9 September 2015
Art dealers have been getting a hard time of it recently, their profession’s reputation shaken by a succession of high-profile… Read More
12 February 2013
In the latter half of December, the largest gallery in the world suddenly found its future dominance in doubt.
30 December 2012
One of France’s wealthiest families accuses another of withholding info on Monet painting stolen by Nazi’s
20 March 2012
The Art Loss Register has compiled a top ten list of the most stolen Artists and Pablo Picasso comes out as the clear leader, by a long shot.
28 January 2012
