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Spencer clear-out throws up some affordable treats
Auction Previews - 28 June 2010
HOUSE contents sales always create a frisson of excitement. Alongside the stars of the show, big-ticket pieces that comes trailing clouds of pre-sale publicity, there is the potential thrill of the unexpected, the serendipitous attractions of the less elevated contents of cellar, outhouse and attic, which hold out the possibility of a bargain.
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The Althorp Attic sale at Christie’s on July 7-8 at South Kensington rooms, has over 760 lots from the famous Northampton seat of the Spencer family.
September launch for three-day conservation conference
- 28 June 2010
PRESERVING the Past, Protecting the Future, Collecting and Conserving Fine and Decorative Arts, is a new fine arts conference scheduled for September 14-16 at Buckinghamshire New University in High Wycombe.
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Green award for ATG
- 28 June 2010
ANTIQUES Trade Gazette has won a Green Apple media award for its promotion of the Antiques Are Green campaign.
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EU to delay impact report on Artists' Resale Right
Art Market - 21 June 2010
THE European Commission has reneged on a legal undertaking to review the effects of the Artist’s Resale Right in the UK before it is extended to the estates of dead artists.
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£33.5m record for Modigliani and for France
Art Market - 21 June 2010
IT may have been an exceptional piece that generated an equally exceptional level of presale interest but, even still, few people present at Christie's Paris for the sale of Amedeo Modigliai's (1884-1920) Tête were expecting it to become the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in France.
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<em>Tête</em> by Amedeo Modigliani that made 38.5m Euros (&pound;33.5m) at Christie's in Paris.
Owner gives notice to quit another Portobello arcade
Dealers Diary - 21 June 2010
DEALERS at another antiques arcade in Portobello Road are having to vacate the centre after being given notice to quit.
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A modified table – and estimate
Auction Reports - 21 June 2010
THE unexpected highlight of the sale conducted by Cheffins of Cambridge on June 9-10 came courtesy of this mahogany writing table. Estimated at £4000-6000, it sold at £68,000 (plus 17.5 per cent buyer's premium).
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The mahogany writing table that sold for £68,000 at Cheffins.
Mementos of a true high flyer
Auction Reports - 21 June 2010
THERE can be no more important figure in British inter-War aviation than the aircraft designer Reginald Joseph Mitchell (1895-1937).
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Reginald Joseph Mitchell’s miniature version of the Schneider Trophy sold by Dominic Winter for £27,000.
Take part in CINOA study on dealing and collecting
- 21 June 2010
CINOA, the international confederation of art dealers, are appealing for ATG readers' help in their latest study, entitled The Changing Role of the Art Dealer: Historical and Future Perspectives.
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MBE for Jonathan Horne
Dealers Diary - 21 June 2010
CERAMICS dealer Jonathan Horne, former Chairman of the BADA and Past Master of the Guild of Arts Scholars, Dealers and Collectors, was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to English ceramics.
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