Sculpture

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

Watercolour of a sleeping feline – possibly her favourite cat – takes £19,000 in Cambridge saleroom

A surge in websites selling ‘cold-cast bronzes’ – sometimes passing them off as original metal alloy sculptures – has led to calls for tighter rules to distinguish them from genuine works.

Biennais bronzes portrayed Napoleon and the many family members he appointed to poweful positions

Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) got off to an early New Year start with a Country House auction.

North Yorkshire saleroom starts 2024 with 2600 lots offered over two weeks in four auctions

The desire by top museums to buy works by under-represented groups, including women and minority ethnic artists, has led to two new auction records in the US.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the Louvre Museum using its pre-emption right to secure a 19th century cast of the Vénus de Milo at an Artcurial auction

The work of Belgian artist celebrated in his day is coveted by modern collectors judging by latest sales.

A white marble sculpture of a young man holding what appears to be a cricket ball flew away from its estimate to bring $30,000 (£23,700) at Andrew Jones (25% buyer’s premium).

Willoughby Gerrish is a sculpture specialist trading from Yorkshire and London, and is among the exhibitors at London Art Fair.

A bronze from Frederick Edward McWilliam’s (1909-92) Women of Belfast series of sculptures sold for £37,000 at Halls (24% buyer’s premium) on December 6.

It was around 1860 that the trained artist François Willème (1830-1905) began to experiment with photography as a way to create sculpture.

Eminent artist stepped aside once he saw the monumental figure by younger colleague Maillol

Sculpture dealer Willoughby Gerrish is using London Art Week (LAW) as a chance to launch another branch of his business.