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Major Fragonard portrait at Bonhams

17 June 2013

Bonhams have announced that they have secured potentially the most valuable lot among the works being sold from the Dr. Gustav Rau collection.

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Art Market

Amati violin hits the right note at inaugural auction

23 May 2013

The inaugural sale held by new London-based musical instrument auctioneers Ingles & Hayday generated a £2.26m total from 150 lots.

Auction Reports

Auction record for any football programme

20 May 2013

Almost exactly a year after Graham Budd set a record for any football programme at auction he has done it again.

Auction Reports

Sotheby’s take short-term hit as business develops and lot values rise

13 May 2013

Sotheby’s lost $22.3m from January to March 2013, more than twice the amount for the same period in 2012.

News

International

Birmingham Group jeweller emerges from the shadows

09 May 2013

Although taught by Bernard Cuzner at the St Margaret School of Art and a contemporary of both Dorrie Nossiter and Katie Eadie, George Edward Hunt (1892-1960) is not the best-known jeweller of the Birmingham Group.

Auction Reports

Bodleian acquire Hopkins poem

07 May 2013

The original autograph draft manuscript for Gerard Manley Hopkins’ 1879 poem ‘Binsey Poplars’ has been acquired by the Bodleian Libraries.

News

The £460,000 treasure used as a garden step

07 May 2013

One of the highlights of the latest raft of Islamic auctions in London was an unusual half-moon-shaped 10th/11th century granite temple step from Sri Lanka which had spent years in a Devon garden.

Auction Reports

Modern British prints take centre stage

05 April 2013

People sipping wine may be a slightly less familiar subject for Nevinson, but a copy of the print 'Sur La Terrasse, Parnasse' will appear at Bonhams sale of Grosvenor School and Avant Garde British Printmaking in New Bond Street on April 16.

Art Market

Art trade holds strong says Richard Green

19 February 2013

Leading Bond Street picture dealer Richard Green has made a stand for traditional art dealing and bricks-and-mortar galleries amid wider concern over the future of the trade.

Dealer News

Renaissance dish charges to £460,000

14 February 2013

Sherborne auctioneers Charterhouse posted a new house record today when this 16.5in (42cm) maiolica istoriato charger sold for £460,000.

Auction Reports