ART MARKET BIDS BRITAIN FAREWELL, PUSHED OUT BY FRANCE AND EUFebruary 16, 2005I have a strong sense of déjà vue about the travails of the art market in the wake of the introduction of droit de suite. I first wrote about it about ten years ago, when the legislation was being discussed and the British Government swore blind that it would protect the flourishing British art market. So much for promises. The droit de suite is a sliding-scale levy paid by the vendor of a work of art to a living artist or to an artist's family for 70 years...