World’s top art and antiques fair dominates the global agenda 40 years on

05 March 2015

Every year on the cusp between winter and spring, the enormous ‘TEFAF Maastricht’ arrives at the Maastricht Exhibition & Conference Centre (MECC), a rare souk of art, antiques and design from antiquity to contemporary, Boulle to Basquiat.

Dealer News

A view of the TEFAF fair in Maastricht. TEFAF 2015 runs from March 13-23. Copyright Harry Heuts.

The William Moorcroft exhibition vase which will be offered at Potteries Auctions with an estimate of £10,000-20,000.

Rare Moorcroft vase adds lustre to new saleroom

05 March 2015

Potteries Auctions in Staffordshire are offering this large William Moorcroft exhibition vase at their second auction in their new premises in Silverdale on April 25.

Previews

The 19th century Native American outfit which sold at Fonsie Mealy for €320,000 (£246,150).

The best-dressed man in County Kilkenny

05 March 2015

This late 19th century Native American outfit proved the highlight of Fonsie Mealy’s latest sale in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, when it sold for €320,000 (£246,150).

Auction Reports

How ATG reported the sale of “a pair of large 19th century bronze angels” for £10,200 in the May 27, 1989, edition. The buyers later returned them to the vendor, Wellingborough Golf Club, who sold them to the V&A last month as one half of the £5m Wolsey Angels.

Wolsey Angels – my ‘ones that got away’, says dealer

05 March 2015

More information has emerged about the colourful recent history of the £5m Wolsey Angels.

News

The place where the masters still assume centre stage

05 March 2015

Old Master paintings rarely take centre stage over Modern, Impressionist or Contemporary art these days. Yet this most traditional of collecting disciplines remains the soul of TEFAF Maastricht, the umbilical cord to its genesis as the Pictura fair.

Dealer News

Holloway’s of Banbury to join Charles Ross Auctioneers

04 March 2015

Holloway’s of Banbury, founded in the early 1970s by the late Tim Holloway and owned since 2001 by Nick Williams, is to join Charles Ross Auctioneers, owned by Russell Beard.

News

Clash of brands at the top fairs enrages dealers

03 March 2015

How do you prevent your own identity as a dealer being subsumed by that of the fair at which you are exhibiting?

News

Online bidding now the norm for medals as CGC takes £130,000

03 March 2015

The online-only sale of a modern British gallantry award estimated at a hefty £100,000-120,000 was always going to be an interesting test of the market.

Auction Reports

What you had to say about Jeremy Lamond’s brown furniture campaign

02 March 2015

Halls’ director of fine art Jeremy Lamond has been leading a social media campaign to promote the virtues of antique furniture.

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