Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
‘A feast for the eyes’: Luxurious de Heem still life emerges at Christie’s
21 May 2025Christie’s has announced a major highlight for its Old Masters evening sale in London on July 1.
Historical Moorcroft archive could be auctioned
19 May 2025The historic collection of pottery manufacturer Moorcroft could soon be heading to auction following the collapse of the company.
‘One of the most important Lincoln collections ever brought to market’
19 May 2025Auction house Freeman's Hindman is offering an extensive collection of historic materials relating to US President Abraham Lincoln.
Modern and contemporary art: Studio source brings strong results
19 May 2025Works coming to auction from artists’ estates give a never-seen-before quality and personal attraction
Rich seam of modern art surfaces in Somerset
19 May 2025An untitled abstract by Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) was among the works attracting interest from the collection of Simon and Jennifer Murray at Dore & Rees (25% buyer’s premium) in Somerset.
Monet’s painting of poplar trees brings demand in patchy New York auction series
16 May 2025The difficulties at the top end of the Modern and Contemporary art market were very much in evidence at the latest flagship auction series in New York.
Rare animal sketches bring demand in single-owner collection of Indian works
16 May 2025Two pictures with natural history subjects drew the strongest competition among the Indian works of art consigned from the collection of the late Francis Golding (1944-2013) to a recent Roseberys’ (26% buyer’s premium) sale.
Rediscovered Kangxi bird paintings raise £600,000 total at Roseberys
13 May 2025A group of Kangxi bird paintings from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ sold for a combined £600,000 at Roseberys in south London.
John Pye to conduct sale of Moorcroft's business and assets
13 May 2025Auction house John Pye has been appointed to help find a buyer for the collapsed pottery firm W. Moorcroft Ltd.
Five highlights from dealer Paul Atkinson’s collection at Sworders
12 May 2025The ‘retirement’ sale of dealer Paul Atkinson’s collection at Essex saleroom Sworders this week will be held exactly 50 years since he opened his first antiques shop in Derbyshire.
Albrecht Dürer: The printmaker supreme
12 May 2025An artist in high demand in his day, Dürer prints still fascinate collectors. ATG surveys the market for works by great Old Master draughtsman
Interview: Dürer prints represent 'one of the biggest achievements in art history'
12 May 2025ATG speaks to Astrid-Christina Schierz, specialist in Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures at Austrian auction house Dorotheum.
William Nicholson’s portrait of his daughter triples its estimate
09 May 2025Despite ongoing concerns that the current economic uncertainty, anaemic growth and trade tariffs is affecting the supply of major lots, the value to auction houses of paintings by ‘big names’ was underlined at Lyon &Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction.
Indian sculptor’s earliest known work on paper turns heads at Chiswick Auctions
09 May 2025The earliest known painted work by the Indian sculptor Ganpatrao Mhatre (1879-1947) drew international interest at a recent sale at Chiswick Auctions (26% buyer’s premium).
Canaletto once owned by Robert Walpole headlines Christie’s Old Master sale
08 May 2025One of Canaletto’s ‘prime-period’ views of Venice which once hung in 10 Downing Street has emerged at Christie’s.
Rediscovered Tirzah Garwood prints and drawings emerge at Cheffins
07 May 2025The largest group of works by Tirzah Garwood (1908-51) to ever come on the open market in one go will be offered at Cheffins later this month.
National Gallery buys ‘mystery’ altarpiece in £16.4m deal brokered by Sotheby’s
06 May 2025The National Gallery in London has acquired two Old Masters, one of which is a remarkable 16th-century altarpiece bought for £16.4m in a private treaty sale brokered by Sotheby’s.
Seton was championed by Scottish clients in Calcutta
05 May 2025The top price of the recent sale of the Philip Astley-Jones collection came for a portrait with a strong Indian connection.
Topographical views of the East and India land impressive sums
05 May 2025Result for album of watercolours underlines the current demand in salerooms for such subjects