Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Picasso in demand – Gurr Johns wins multiple bidding battles for Spanish painter’s works at Christie’s
28 February 2018Works by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) led the latest sales of Impressionist & Modern and Surrealist art at Christie’s.
The importance of TEFAF Maastricht and my star item this year – images and video
26 February 2018Here we ask the dealers who participated in ATG's Round Table discussion the reasons why they choose to stand at the fair and ask them to pick out a star item they are taking this year.
Bonhams promotes head of Chinese ceramics and makes new appointment to main board
24 February 2018Bonhams has promoted Asaph Hyman to global head of Chinese ceramics and works of art.
From Picasso portraits to porcelain dinner services: take a tour around the Rockefeller collection ahead of Christie’s auction – video
22 February 2018As the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller goes on view in London, ATG takes a tour around Christie’s exhibition of key lots ahead of what could be the most valuable single-owner sale ever held.
New York’s Met Museum wins bidding for early American teapot at Salisbury auction – video
21 February 2018An early American porcelain teapot sold for £460,000 at a Woolley & Wallis auction in Salisbury this week is now on its way to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Early American teapot sells at £460,000 as vendor makes huge return on £15 purchase
20 February 2018A previously unrecorded teapot attributed to a pioneering American porcelain factory sold at a Woolley & Wallis auction today for £460,000. The vendor of the teapot, a private collector from south-west of England, had bought it recently in the Midlands for just £15.
Coin-grading firm ties with Spink as Royal Mint provides valuation service
19 February 2018Coin-grading firm The Certified Collectibles Group (CCG) has expanded again in the UK and will open an office in London in April on the third floor of dealership Spink’s headquarters.
Byzantine scholar’s entire collection stolen after break-in
16 February 2018The entire coin collection of Byzantine scholar Simon Bendall was stolen from his home near Victoria in London during a break-in earlier this week.
5 Mod Brit highlights from dealer Geoffrey Harley’s collection sold at Woolley & Wallis’ auction
16 February 2018Modern British art from the estate of the late antiques dealer Geoffrey Harley raised a total of £626,000 at Woolley & Wallis.
Royal Mint continues commercial drive launching a coin valuation service… for a fee
14 February 2018The Royal Mint is expanding its interest in the historical coin market by launching an authentication and valuation service which is available via its website.
Gulf in price for record Daniel Egerton Mexican view
12 February 2018A view of coastal Mexico was knocked down at £280,000 at Bonhams’ latest Travel and Exploration sale in Knightsbridge – a record price at auction for British topographical painter Daniel Egerton (1797-1842).
London dealer to offer Vincent van Gogh still life at TEFAF Maastricht
10 February 2018London dealership Connaught Brown will be taking a still life by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) to TEFAF Maastricht next month.
6 highlights from New York’s Old Master series – including star lots from the Barnet collection of drawings
08 February 2018Now billed as ‘Master’ week, as opposed to ‘Old Master’ week, the traditional winter auction series in New York posted a solid performance whatever its title.
‘No other auction house does this much business online’ says Heritage
05 February 2018Heritage Auctions says more than half of its sales are now made through the internet.
Pick of the Week: Samuel Palmer view of Shoreham picks up a record
05 February 2018The most eye-catching price at the latest series of Old Master and 19th century art sales in New York came at Sotheby’s separately staged auction of drawings from the collection of the late Howard and Saretta Barnet.
Heritage Auctions expand mobile app with PCGS tie-up
05 February 2018Collectables specialist Heritage Auctions has announced a number of new developments to the Heritage Auctions app.
The low-down on Heritage Auctions’ mobile coin app
05 February 2018Texas-based fine art and collectables specialist Heritage Auctions announced a number of new developments to its mobile app last month. Advances included one-touch mobile bidding and an extension to the barcode scanning facility for coins.
Fresh Old Master mastiff discovery bounds into auction
05 February 2018A previously unrecorded painting attributed to Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, the Italian Old Master known as il Guercino (1591-1666), has been consigned to Cambridge auction house Cheffins.
7 reasons why this portrait of a dog looks set to get tails wagging at Cambridge auction
01 February 2018A previously unrecorded painting attributed to Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, the Italian Old Master known as il Guercino (1591-1666), has been consigned to Cambridge auction house Cheffins. It will be offered its sale on March 7-8 with an estimate of £80,000-120,000.
German frogman’s Panerai watch sells for £41,000 at Birmingham watch auction – video
01 February 2018The star lot at Fellows’ latest watch auction in Birmingham was a rare Panerai military diver's wrist watch which had been acquired by a British soldier in the Second World War from a Kampfschwimmer (German frogman).