A majority of the 7,000-work-strong Essl Collection will be sold off in London this October, according to a report in the Handelsblatt‘s Friday print edition. According to appraisals of the collection ...

In an 11th hour bid to save Austria’s Essl Collection, industrialist Hans Peter Haselsteiner has agreed to provide collateral for a new company that will purchase the collection of around 7,000 works ...

A critical report issued by Austria’s Court of Audit will not stand in the way of the Albertina Museum’s acquisition of more than 1,300 works from the Essl collection, a gift worth an estimated €90m, ...

The Austrian government is considering buying one of the country’s best-known private art collections in a bid to help save its owner’s company. Collector and businessman Karlheinz Essl has appealed ...

LONDON (Reuters) - An auction of mostly German and Austrian contemporary art to raise emergency cash to bail out the Essl Museum in Austria generated its own drama at Christie's on Monday when the ...