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It has long forbidden foreign auction houses from operating independently on the mainland.
Consultants are also coming up with new ways to connect these firms to unfamiliar customers.Deb Weidenhamer runs iPai, a trailblazing foreign auction house in China.
A18 ARTS E1-8 France Opens Auction Market Sotheby's will make history in Paris tomorrow when it becomes the first foreign auction house to hold a public sale in France, under a change in French law approved last year.
After years of dallying, the French Parliament this year finally passed legislation to allow foreign auction houses to operate in France, and the two houses are expected to be in business by the winter.
Foreign auction houses, unable to operate in Paris, have been finding art in France but selling it in New York, London and Geneva.The effect of the changes, says François Curiel, Christie's European chairman, will be that Paris will grow, but not at the expense of other big markets.
As Sotheby's lives through the uncertainty of the price-fixing trial of its former chairman in New York, it can at least boast to be making history this week in Paris when it becomes the first foreign auction house to hold a public sale in France.
[C10.] Judge Dismisses 3 Auction Suits A federal judge dismissed three lawsuits against Sotheby's and Christie's by buyers at foreign auctions who contend they had been cheated in a price-fixing scheme.
A11 ARTS E1-12 Overseas Auction Suits Voided A federal judge dismissed three lawsuits against Sotheby's and Christie's by buyers at foreign auctions who had asserted that they were cheated in a price-fixing scheme dating to 1992.
"How are they going to compete," he said, "if we don't just get cash?" Objections were also raised to Judge Kaplan's decision to dismiss three lawsuits brought against the two houses by buyers at foreign auctions.
The cost of recovering the artifacts has consumed the bulk of her museum's budget, and pieces sometimes have turned up at foreign auctions and been too expensive or difficult to retrieve, she said.
A federal judge yesterday dismissed three lawsuits against Sotheby's and Christie's by buyers at foreign auctions who said they had been cheated in a price-fixing scheme dating back to 1992.
