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Auction Reports Objects in Focus Art Market Fairs News Exhibitions & Dealers Dealers Diary International Stolen records 1 to 10 of 3   [1 2 3]    Masterpiece gets the green light from planners Fairs News - 05 February 2010 THE luxury goods fair Masterpiece London has been granted planning permission for an inaugural event at the former Chelsea Barracks from June 24 to 29. read more >> What makes the £58m walking man so special? Art Market - 05 February 2010 IF the price paid for Alberto Giacometti's (1901-1966) sculpture L'Homme qui Marche I is anything to go by, then the art market is now striding out of recession. Selling for £58m (plus premium) at Sotheby's evening sale on February 3, it became the most expensive object ever sold at auction. read more >> Bumper totals at Impressionist and Modern sales Art Market - 05 February 2010 SERIOUS levels of demand emerged for works at the very top end of the art market as this month’s flagship Impressionist and Modern art auction series raised a combined hammer total of £225.8m, massively up on the £108.8m for the equivalent series last year. read more >> All-time record prices for art Art Market - 05 February 2010 read more >> Dealers mobilise over threat to Portobello Dealers Diary - 01 February 2010 A GROUP of Portobello Road dealers are to lobby the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea following the loss of a prominent antiques arcade to a highstreet retailer. read more >> Museums active at Old Masters auctions in New York Art Market - 01 February 2010 MAJOR American museums played an active role as both buyers and sellers in the latest Old Master sales in New York. read more >> Christie’s upbeat despite overall fall in 2009 sales International - 01 February 2010 CHRISTIE’S have announced a 24 per cent year-on-year fall in sales for 2009 to £2.1bn. read more >> Beckford’s waiters bring £36,000 Auction Reports - 01 February 2010 A PAIR of silver-gilt waiters made by William Burwash for William Beckford, “the wealthiest commoner in England” who built the lavish Gothic Revival Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, sold for £36,000 at auction last week. read more >> Munich alliance for Dreweatts and Bloomsbury International - 01 February 2010 BLOOMSBURY Auctions and Dreweatts have announced an alliance with Hermann Historica, the German specialist auctioneers in arms, armour and militaria. read more >> Stalag Luft III’s original scriptwriters Objects in Focus - 01 February 2010 A PENCIL and watercolour sketch showing men at work on a celebrated escape tunnel was a major attraction in a log or record compiled in 1943-45 by a Scottish P.O.W. sold by Lyon & Turnbull of Edinburgh for £3200 on January 13. read more >> records 1 to 10 of 3   [1 2 3]

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