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Antiquarian Books Art Market Auction Previews Auction Reports Book Reviews Coins and Medals Comment Dealers Diary Decoration and Design Exhibitions & Dealers Fairs News International Letters London Selection Museum News Objects in Focus Overseas Events Stolen Technology Wine records 1 to 10 of 724   [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] Next Last    Christie’s turn fair organisers for Frieze week Fairs News - 26 July 2010 CHRISTIE’S are launching a fair during Frieze week for dealers and publishers specialising in contemporary editions. The auctioneers' South Kensington saleroom will be given over to the event, titled Multiplied, focused primarily on prints, photography, sculpture and artists’ books. read more >> Cozens enters new territory and breaks the £2m barrier Art Market - 26 July 2010 AMONG a series of records for British watercolours posted during Sotheby's sale entitled An Exceptional Eye: A Private British Collection on July 14, the most spectacular price was the £2.1m bid for this striking view of the Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo by John Robert Cozens (1752-1797). read more >> Too much ‘collectables hunting’ on BBC says Trust - 26 July 2010 THE plethora of BBC daytime television shows based around antiques and collectables has drawn criticism from the corporation’s governing body. read more >> Sotheby’s broker art leasing deal for museum Museum News - 26 July 2010 A DEBT-plagued university in Boston has entered into an agreement with Sotheby’s to lease rather than sell off works from its museum’s $350m art collection. read more >> The train crash that cost Steinbeck ‘part of his brain’ Antiquarian Books - 26 July 2010 “ED seriously injured late today when train hit car – Ritch”. When a shocked John Steinbeck received this telegram in May, 1948, he left immediately for Monterey, California, but by the time he got there his good friend Ed Ricketts, the man he later described as being “part of my brain for 18 years”, was dead. read more >> Sworders consolidate in favour of Sudbury office - 26 July 2010 EAST Anglia auctioneers Sworders have ceased holding sales in Sudbury. The former Olivers saleroom in Burkitt’s Lane, Sudbury will now become an office and storage facility with all future consignments removed for sale to Stansted Mountfitchet. read more >> Clarion Events take back control of Olympia fair for 2011 Fairs News - 19 July 2010 NEXT summer’s Olympia fair is reverting to British management and organisation, with owners Clarion Events taking the reins back from US entrepreneur David Lester. read more >> Devonshires decide to clear out the Chatsworth attics Auction Previews - 19 July 2010 JUST one week after Christie’s held their series of London sales from the cellars, storehouses and attics of Althorp, ancestral home of the Spencer family, Sotheby’s announced that they are to hold an autumn auction of attic treasures from Chatsworth, the Derbyshire home of the Dukes of Devonshire. read more >> Munch's Madonna brings over £1m in London Art Market - 19 July 2010 WHEN it comes to modern prints, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) stands in a league with only Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol as artists who have made sums getting on for £1m at auction. However, Bonhams broke through that barrier on July 13 when they offered an extremely rare version of one of the Norwegian artist’s best known images. read more >> What has happened to the council’s vision for Portobello? Comment - 19 July 2010 WHEN the Commission for Retail Preservation was set up by Kensington and Chelsea Council in 2006, the borough’s mayor at the time, Tim Ahern, was quoted in an official release, as follows: read more >> records 1 to 10 of 724   [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10] Next Last

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