22 May 2013
A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone containing personal annotations and illustrations by author J.K. Rowling’s fetched £150,000 at a charity auction held at Sotheby’s in London last night. ....
21 May 2013
A demand from the National Archives for lots to be withdrawn from auction at Tennants of Leyburn could have wider implications for the trade in historical documents. ....
20 May 2013
Dreweatts will be conducting the first auction of a complete RHS Chelsea garden during this year’s flower show. ....
20 May 2013
A new and alarming scam guide is targeting the trade with demands linked to European Union regulations and focusing on VAT. ....
16 May 2013
Christie’s evening sale of Contemporary art in New York last night posted a hammer total of $435.5m (£294.2m). ....
13 May 2013
Sotheby’s lost $22.3m from January to March 2013, more than twice the amount for the same period in 2012. ....
13 May 2013
Art dealer Niall Fairhead is leading a new campaign to persuade the Government to raise the Artist’s Resale Right threshold from €1000 to the €3000 stipulated by the European Commission. ....
08 May 2013
Some of the galleries affected by redevelopment in Cork Street, Mayfair, have been given hope that they can move back once the work is completed. ....
07 May 2013
The manager of a Hampshire auction house which collapsed owing money and goods to hundreds of consignors has failed to secure new saleroom premises less than ten miles away. ....
07 May 2013
The ambitious project that made 210,000 publicly-owned oil, tempera and acrylic paintings available to view online for free has taken another important step forward thanks to winning £125,000 funding. ....
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Auction Previews
20 May 2013
Billed as “the most important early printed book to be offered this century”, a deluxe vellum copy of the ‘Opera’ of Virgil is being offered at Christie’s on June 12. ....
07 May 2013
Paris auctioneers Gros & Delettrez have announced the sale of 350 lots of haute couture from Danielle Luquet de Saint Germain, muse to the late Yves Saint Laurent in the 1960s, and later an artistic advisor at Dior. ....
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Auction Reports
23 May 2013
The inaugural sale held by new London-based musical instrument auctioneers Ingles & Hayday generated a £2.26m total from 150 lots. ....
22 May 2013
A first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone containing personal annotations and illustrations by author J.K. Rowling’s fetched £150,000 at a charity auction held at Sotheby’s in London last night. ....
20 May 2013
Almost exactly a year after Graham Budd set a record for any football programme at auction he has done it again. ....
20 May 2013
The name of 83-year-old Sister Wendy Beckett, reclusive nun and famous TV art critic, doesn’t always meet a raptuorous response in the art world, but there is no doubt that the public at large love her. ....
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