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Old Masters need reinventing to avoid being frozen out

Last year, European Old Masters represented just 4% of the world’s $26.3bn art auction sales. In our contemporary-obsessed world, we’re just not paying them enough attention

Scott Reyburn
7 December 2022
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A winter landscape with figures by a frozen river in a village by Frans de Momper (1603-60) sold for a low estimate of $32,760 at Christie’s in October. The vendor had bought the work at Christie’s in 2012 for $40,260, less than half the price it made at auction in 1999 Christie's Images Ltd
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