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What makes the
£58m walking man
so special?
IF the price paid for Alberto Giacometti's (1901-1966) sculpture L'Homme qui Marche I is anything to go by, then the art market is now striding out of recession. Selling for £58m (plus premium) at Sotheby's evening sale on February 3, it became the most expensive object ever sold at auction.
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Masterpiece gets the green light from planners
THE luxury goods fair Masterpiece London has been granted planning permission for an inaugural event at the former Chelsea Barracks from June 24 to 29.
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Bumper totals at Impressionist and Modern sales
SERIOUS levels of demand emerged for works at the very top end of the art market as this month’s flagship Impressionist and Modern art auction series raised a combined hammer total of £225.8m, massively up on the £108.8m for the equivalent series last year.
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Gustav Klimt's <em>Kirche in Cassone</em> that made &pound;24m at Sotheby's.
Dealers mobilise over threat to Portobello
A GROUP of Portobello Road dealers are to lobby the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea following the loss of a prominent antiques arcade to a highstreet retailer.
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Museums active at Old Masters auctions in New York
MAJOR American museums played an active role as both buyers and sellers in the latest Old Master sales in New York.
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<em>The Entrance to the Turkish Garden Caf&eacute;</em> by Louis L&eacute;opold Boilly that sold at Christie's for a record $4m (&pound;2.56m) and was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Christie’s upbeat despite overall fall in 2009 sales
CHRISTIE’S have announced a 24 per cent year-on-year fall in sales for 2009 to £2.1bn.
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Beckford’s waiters bring £36,000
A PAIR of silver-gilt waiters made by William Burwash for William Beckford, “the wealthiest commoner in England” who built the lavish Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, sold for £36,000 at auction last week.
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One of a pair of silver-gilt waiters made by William Burwash for William Beckford, that sold for £36,000 at Woolley & Wallis last week.
Munich alliance for Dreweatts and Bloomsbury
BLOOMSBURY Auctions and Dreweatts have announced an alliance with Hermann Historica, the German specialist auctioneers in arms, armour and militaria.
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Stalag Luft III’s original scriptwriters
A PENCIL and watercolour sketch showing men at work on a celebrated escape tunnel was a major attraction in a log or record compiled in 1943-45 by a Scottish P.O.W. sold by Lyon & Turnbull of Edinburgh for £3200 on January 13.
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Lindsay Greenaway’s drawing of tunnel ‘Harry’ under construction.
Man charged with cheque fraud
A MAN arrested in connection with passing fraudulent cheques to London dealers has appeared in court.
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King receives expanded role at Christie’s
CHRISTIE’S have made a number of changes to their senior management in Asia, the US, the UK and Europe.
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Furniture index falls another 7%
HOPES of a recovery in the value of antique furniture have been dealt a blow after the Antiques Collectors’ Club’s Annual Furniture Index (AFI) saw prices fall by seven per cent during 2009.
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Nice little urners at £54,000
THE highlight of Dreweatts' January 13 furniture sale at Donnington Priory was a pair of monumental, late 19th century Italian, sculpted alabaster, twin-handled urns.
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One of a pair of late 19th century alabaster urns that sold at Dreweatts for £54,000.
Seago centenary fest for London
THE work of Edward Seago (1910-1974) has always been popular. Even during his own lifetime, Colnaghi’s annual exhibitions of his paintings between 1946 and 1966 on Old Bond Street drew such fierce competition that buyers, some of whom had queued overnight, were restricted to one picture each.
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<em>Street Scene, Hong Kon</em>g by Edward Seago, 20in x 2ft 6in (51 x 76cm) signed oil on board from an American private collection &ndash; &pound;138,000 from the Portland Gallery.
Drouot takes tough stand over arrests
DROUOT President Georges Delettrez has announced “strong measures with immediate effect” after nine members of staff at the central Paris saleroom (eight warehousemen and one auctioneer) were charged with “criminal association and organised theft” in early December.
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Sampson and Horne stock to be sold at auction
ANOTHER major dealership on the London antiques scene is to close with the announcement of the auction of the entire trading stock of Sampson and Horne Antiques at Bonhams on April 28.
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A view of the Sampson and Horne gallery in Mayfair. The stock will be sold at Bonhams in April.
Salerooms post mixed annual results after difficult year
IT was undoubtedly a challenging year for many but two of the UK’s leading regional art and antiques salerooms enjoyed record sales in 2009.
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$1.2m for Qianlong’s personal inkstone >>
A carved wood box dated to the Wu Xu year of the reign of the Emperor Qianlong (1778). Containing a clay inkstone formed as a recumbent tiger, it sold for $1.2m (£769,250) at Christie’s New York.
The earliest of English sauceboats >>
One of a pair of Chelsea Blue Triangle period sauceboats that made £41,000 at Frank Marshall.
Jade bidding reaches £38,000 in Oxford >>
The Chinese jade censer and cover that made £38,000 at Mallams.