Ben Hanly News

As we navigate the complexities of 2023-2024, the art market reflects the broader economic landscape, marked by caution and reassessment.

2023 in the Art Market has been one of readjustment and realignment, but thankfully not collapse – a market correction rather than the much talked about free-fall of the market. 2022 ended on a fever pitch high, with a slew of blockbuster auctions and record-breaking auctions – the Macklowe Collection brought in $922m at Sotheby’s, […]

Last week’s Art Basel 2023 contemporary art fair, June 15 – June 18, defied forecasts of a market slowdown, with wealthy collectors buying works with seven or eight-figure price tags. Described by its new chief executive Noah Horowitz as ‘the single most important annual event in the global art market’ and the ‘barometer of the […]

What art to put in your super yacht and how to look after it, might seem to be the ultimate in first world problems, but due to the everincreasing growth of the yacht market, these questions are fast being real issues for many UHNW individuals, with a knock-on effect for the insurance industry. Ownership of […]

In the same way that ‘location, location, location’ has historically underpinned great property investment, ‘quality, quality, quality’ has always lain at the heart of great art collecting. The strength of this strategy of only buying the very best proven crystal clear with the spectacular results achieved by the recent auction of the art collection amassed […]

Throughout history the Crown has used portraiture to define and promote its official image – the image which each successive monarch chooses to portray itself to the Nation. These images, whether they show the monarch as a great head of State, or as a triumphant military leader or even as the embodiment of middle-class values, [...]