Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Auction record for a living artist as David Hockney swimming pool scene makes $80m at Christie's
16 November 2018David Hockney’s ‘Portrait of an ‘Artist (Pool with Two Figures)’ from 1972 became the most expensive work by a living artist when it was knocked down for $80m (£61.6m) at Christie's in New York last night.
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £1000 including a sought-after Modern British gouache
15 November 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £1000 and three upcoming lots, including a gouache that set an auction record for the artist Ray Howard-Jones.
Most Read: ATG’s top stories this week – including news of dealers forcing Amazon-owned AbeBooks into a climbdown
09 November 2018The most popular stories on this website over the last week (November 1-7, 2018) included news of a vigorous dealer backlash forcing Amazon-owned AbeBooks into a change of policy.
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £1000 including a Victorian landscape showing hop houses in Kent
08 November 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £1000 and three upcoming lots, including a oil painting of oast houses in a Kentish landscape by Edward H Niemann.
The bird, the crab, the clock, the lawyer – four rare pieces of Martin Brothers pottery on view in London ahead of Phillips’ New York sale
07 November 2018An awesome foursome of Martin Brothers figures are on show in London this week at a public viewing being held at auction house Phillips ahead of the sale of the works in New York next month.
Kirkton House provides 182 works in Edinburgh auction
05 November 2018Pictures formed a prominent part of Lyon & Turnbull’s (25/20% buyer’s premium) Kirkton House sale earlier this month as the contents of the Regency manse near Montrose were dispersed from the auction house’s Edinburgh saleroom.
Most Read: ATG’s top stories this week – including the art and antiques trade’s response to the chancellor’s Budget
02 November 2018The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of the art and antiques trade’s response to the business rates reprieve announced in the Budget.
Assyrian relief sets second-highest price for ancient art at Christie’s New York despite Iraq’s repatriation call
01 November 2018An Assyrian relief unearthed from the royal palace at Nimrud in modern-day Iraq has set the second highest ever price for a piece of ancient art at auction after selling at Christie’s New York.
Saleroom selection: 10 pieces of Asian art on offer in November 2018
01 November 2018November is the UK’s busiest month of Asian art sales with a glut of auctions taking place in both London and the regions.
Five top picture lots from Lyon & Turnbull’s Kirkton House auction
18 October 2018Lyon & Turnbull’s Kirkton House sale offered some notable lots across different categories, not least a prize collection of Pilkington's Lancastrian lustre and a series of valuable bronze sculptures. But the 182 pictures in the consignment also formed a key part of the auction.
Most Read: ATG’s top stories this week – including Banksy’s art market prank
12 October 2018The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of street artist Banksy’s prank on the art market with a work shredding itself immediately after selling at Sotheby’s.
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £900 including an 18th century print of a Joseph Wright of Derby masterwork
10 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £900 and three upcoming lots offered over the next fortnight, including a c.1768 engraving by William Pether after a masterwork by the great Joseph Wright of Derby.
Sotheby’s refutes $380m fraud claim filed in New York court
05 October 2018Sotheby’s has described a claim filed in New York that it conspired to defraud the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev as “entirely without merit”.
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £900 including watercolour by a Victorian ‘prodigy of manual skill’
03 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £900, including a Edmund George Warren watercolour of the New Forest, and three upcoming lots offered the next fortnight.
Saleroom selection: Six pieces of Baxter Whitefriars glass on offer at auctions around the UK
01 October 2018Whitefriars glass can be traced back to the 18th century but it really came into its own after James Powell purchased the business for his three sons in 1834.
From $300 to $300,000 – Apple-1 computer sells at Boston auction
29 September 2018An Apple-1 computer bought for $300 in the late 1970s has sold at an auction in Boston for $300,000 (£228,730) – $375,000 with buyer’s premium.
Most Read: ATG’s top stories this week – including a Russian sleeper and a piece of comedy gold at auction
28 September 2018The most popular stories on this website over the last seven days included a Russian sleeper bringing huge bidding in Yorkshire and an ‘Only Fools and Horses’ prop knocked down to two suitably-dressed characters.
Patrick Caulfield’s ‘Pony’ takes £220,000 at Roseberys auction
26 September 2018A painting titled 'Pony' by British artist Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005) has sold for £220,000 at south London saleroom Roseberys.
Russian porcelain figures taken to 300-times estimate at Tennants’ auction
21 September 2018A major competition came for a set of Russian porcelain figures at Tennants’ Country House sale in Leyburn, North Yorkshire today.
Bidders snap up letters from Pre-Raphaelite patron’s collection at Trevanion & Dean auction
21 September 2018A group of 66 letters from the collection of an important patron of Pre-Raphaelite artists raised a £25,000 total at Shropshire auctioneers Trevanion & Dean.