Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
View of the Thames by Victorian artist stuns market with six-figure sum at Bonhams
12 April 2021Lesser-known painter Alice Boyd emerges via Cheyne Walk at London auction
Sister act – Augustus John portraits
12 April 2021Depiction of one McNeill sister sets a record while portrait of her sibling also appears at another auction
Top sum for a van Gogh drawing at Christie's
12 April 2021An eight-lot sale in New York titled A Family Collection: Works on Paper, Van Gogh to Freud raised a premium-inclusive total of $25.3m (£18.2m).
Archibald Thorburn seagulls fly high at Tennants
12 April 2021It is often said there is a strict hierarchy for the prices of game bird pictures by the great ornithological artist Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935).
Proud Yorkshireman’s view of God’s Own Country
12 April 2021Tennants offered a well-received 70-lot sale dedicated to views mostly of Yorkshire from a private collection last month.
Mountbatten family collection raises £5.6m at Sotheby’s
05 April 2021Sotheby’s reported 1400 bidders from 55 countries participating in the auction of the collection of Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924-2017).
Dutch dealers strike out on their own with online fair
01 April 2021Dealers from the Royal Dutch Fine Art & Antique Dealer Association (KVHOK) have joined forces to launch an online fair which opens this month.
Realism dawns as Parker enjoys record sale
29 March 2021A private collection of pictures helped Parker Fine Art Auctions to its highest total since opening in Farnham last year.
Banksy: far from anonymous in the art market
29 March 2021For people who follow the art market, Banksy (b.1975) is now impossible to ignore.
Banksy mania: Why the artist's screenprints are flashing up on investor’s dashboards
29 March 2021Famous for the sort of graffiti that morphs into street art and critical acclaim, Banksy is now bringing in big money in the form of screenprints
Let us spray: an original rarity
29 March 2021While Banksy prints abound at auction, the number of original works that emerge is understandably much less.
Having a laugh but delivering serious prices
29 March 2021Bonhams (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) has been offering works by Banksy for some time now in a number of different sale types including Contemporary art auctions and specialist print offerings.
Trolleys carries on giving
29 March 2021Among the Banksy works sold outside London recently was a screenprint of Trolleys that made £40,000 at Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) of Leyburn in North Yorkshire.
Keep a watch on ‘Walled Off’
29 March 2021This image of children swinging along a watch tower was part of Banksy’s ‘Walled Off’ project that relates to the West Bank barrier between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Rat packs sale punch in several versions
29 March 2021A number of Banksy’s earlier prints from the early 2000s feature the subject of a rat.
Journey that is far from over
22 March 2021Bonhams holds faith with specialist travel and exploration auctions
Comet interest proves to be a vendor’s streak of good luck
22 March 2021View of The Great Comet by George Buchanan Wollaston flies high at London saleroom Roseberys
Designer Stuart Weitzman’s treasures at Sotheby’s could set records for any coin and stamp
16 March 2021Sotheby’s is staging a three-lot sale of exceptional items from the collection of luxury shoe designer Stuart Weitzman this summer.
Looking to a Leyburn Lowry double in lockdown
15 March 2021A late work by LS Lowry (1887-1976), which had never appeared on the open market before, overshot a £60,000- 90,000 estimate at Tennants’ latest Modern & Contemporary art sale.
Alfred Wainwright strides ever onward
15 March 2021Drawings by the great fell-walking guidebook author catch the mood of escapism