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Grosvenor House Fair scrapped
Fairs News - 01 July 2009
JUST after what was generally agreed to be a very successful 75th anniversary staging, the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair has been scrapped as no longer economically viable.
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Mixed results at London modern art auctions
Art Market - 29 June 2009
THE readjustment taking place at the top end of the contemporary and modern art market was once again in evidence at the latest flagship London auction series.
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Sotheby's European chairman Henry Wyndham on the rostrum with Picasso's <em>Homme a l'&eacute;p&eacute;e</em>, which made the highest price of the series selling at &pound;6.2m to a private collector.
More UK art dealers setting up an overseas base
Dealers Diary - 29 June 2009
The latest survey conducted by the Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) shows a doubling of members who now have a gallery presence abroad, mostly in New York.
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Love triumphs as Ashmolean acquire £1m Titian tondo
Museum News - 29 June 2009
WHILE £50m was finally raised in February to keep the Duke of Sutherland's Titian painting Diana and Actaeon in the UK, an attempt to raise a further £50m by 2012 for the Duke's Diana and Callisto is already underway.
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<em>The Triumph of Love</em> by Titian, which will be put on display at the National Gallery before taking up residence at the Ashmolean in Oxford.<br />
Image Copyright: Ashmolean Museum
Art Fund name Tate Britain chief as new director
Museum News - 29 June 2009
THE Art Fund have appointed Dr Stephen Deuchar, currently the director of Tate Britain and chairman of the 2009 Turner Prize, as its new director, with effect from January 4 2010.
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‘The Man of Mont Blanc’ peepshow climbs to £3600
Objects in Focus - 29 June 2009
ALBERT Richard Smith was obsessed from childhood with the idea that he might one day climb Mont Blanc. There were false starts and setbacks, financial and social, but in 1851 he finally got to stand on the peak of his dreams and spent the next few years building a small fortune on the strength of that achievement.
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This very rare peepshow, complete with text booklet and 15 coloured litho views, sold for £3600 at Woolley & Wallis.
Palm Beach organiser Lester makes a move on Olympia fair
Fairs News - 22 June 2009
FLORIDA-based fairs entrepreneur David Lester has set his sights on a pivotal role in the future of the Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair.
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Devon fair continues as planned
Fairs News - 22 June 2009
Devon County Antiques Fairs are currently experiencing technical difficulties with their telephone system but would like the readers of the ATG to know that the fair at Westpoint Exhibition Centre will be going ahead as planned this weekend (July 4-5).
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Cotswolds School furniture brings the bidders at Duke’s
Auction Reports - 22 June 2009
A DOZEN telephone bidders competed for a remarkable cache of primary provenanced Cotswolds School furniture offered by Duke's in Dorchester on June 18.
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The Ernest Gimson inlaid macassar ebony stationery box c.1904 that sold for £31,000 at Duke’s.
Silver dealer Shaw to turn auctioneer with Bonhams
- 22 June 2009
WELL-KNOWN silver dealer Nicholas Shaw is to leave the trade to become the new head of department at Bonhams. Following more than two decades working as a dealer, he begins work as an auctioneer in September.
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