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The Pietro Psaier dispute steps up a gear as more details emerge
Art Market - 18 August 2008
THE extraordinary spat that has emerged over the existence of artist Pietro Psaier has taken another turn, with auctioneer John Nicholson pledging to publish the catalogue raisonée of his life and work.
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A copy of the interview, which has a copyright imprint at the bottom, reading: <em>El Independiente Jovenes &ndash; Madrid, domingo 25 de febrero de 1990</em>.
Cochrane collection to be sold at Sworders
Auction Previews - 18 August 2008
THE Standsted Mountfitchet saleroom Sworders are to sell the contents of Lancotbury Manor, a timber-framed Tudor manor house near Dunstable that was the former home of David Cochrane and Bernard Gulley.
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An English late 19th/early 20th century polychrome wood model of a butcher's shop, 20in x 2ft 4in (50 x 70cm). It carries an estimate of £4000-6000 when Sworders sell the David Cochrane Collection on September 24.
Sotheby’s move Asian contemporary sales to Hong Kong
Art Market - 18 August 2008
SOTHEBY’S have announced that, as of next year, all their dedicated contemporary Asian art sales will be held in Hong Kong.
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Tiffany appeal against eBay ruling in US
International - 18 August 2008
Tiffany & Co have appealed over the ruling that eBay do not have to police their auction site for fakes before they are sold to unwitting buyers.
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An index of murder, mayhem and other horrors
Antiquarian Books - 18 August 2008
AT Sotheby's on July 17, a wooden file box containing nearly 4000 index cards compiled by the father of professional forensic pathology, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, sold at £15,000 to a collector.
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Bernard Spilsbury’s autopsy card index which sold for £15,000 at Sotheby's.
FBI tracing owners of huge art hoard
Stolen - 18 August 2008
The FBI are attempting to track down the rightful owners of 137 works of art, discovered in a New York apartment, which are thought to have been stolen in the 1960s and 70s.
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Beatles tape found in attic makes £10,000
Auction Reports - 18 August 2008
A previously unheard tape of a Beatles recording session, in which John Lennon and Paul McCartney break into giggles and crack jokes, has fetched £10,000 at Cameo auctioneers in Midgham, Berkshire.
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Johnson family jailed but stolen antiques still remain at large
Stolen - 11 August 2008
Stolen art and antiques valued at tens of millions of pounds remain at large despite the incarceration of five members of the notorious Johnson family who bragged in a 2005 BBC documentary that they would gladly steal from “the lords, the sirs and the ladies”.
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��5{���������recovered from the Ramsbury raid. This portrait of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria by Abraham van Diepenbeck was found in May this year after a man who had recently purchased a property found it hidden in one of the buildings on his la
Isle of Wight saleroom clocks up a £240,000 record
Auction Reports - 11 August 2008
Isle of Wight firm Island Auction Rooms established a new record for a clock sold by a UK provincial auctioneer when this remarkable longcase took £240,000 on August 7.
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The longcase that took £240,000 at Island Auction Rooms, making a new record for a clock sold by a UK provincial auctioneer.
Sotheby’s figures show reliance on contemporary art
International - 11 August 2008
SOTHEBY’S dependence on the contemporary art market could hardly be clearer than in their latest set of figures.
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