Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
Sparkling mood at Wartski party
24 April 2017The London jewellery dealership Wartski hosted a champagne reception to launch a new CD recording of Façade.
Virginia auction covers Ushak Star carpet fragment
24 April 2017An Ushak Star carpet fragment measuring 5ft 2in x 6ft 1in (1.57 x 1.85m) will feature in Jeffrey S Evans’ April 29 sale of antiques, decorative arts and 20th century design in Mount Crawford.
Gold rush fever hits Australian auction
24 April 2017A mid-19th century oil painting depicting in detail a scene at the height of the Australian gold rush is a potential highlight of a Sotheby’s Australia sale next month.
Famous Radio 4 voices launch new CD recording at Wartski party
20 April 2017The London jewellery dealership Wartski was in a sparkling mood but it was not their Fabergé and other antique gems that were the main attraction on this occasion.
Seven key lots sold during Drawings Week in Paris
19 April 2017The recent Drawings Week event in Paris featured a slew of dedicated auctions across the French capital. They ranged from single-owner dedicated auctions of drawings by Edgar Degas and Antoine-Jean Gros to a huge variety of other works on paper spanning the Italian Renaissance to the 20th century.
Then & now: The changing nature of house contents sales
18 April 2017News as reported from the ATG Archive...
Paris sales double up Degas and Gros
18 April 2017Among the raft of dedicated works on paper auctions staged for the recent Drawings Week in Paris were two market-fresh sales devoted to family collections of works by a single French artist.
Degas in Christie's and Sotheby's Paris auctions
18 April 2017While Degas’ youthful drawings produced some notable individual prices in Drawings Week, it is the classic charcoal and pastel drawings of Parisian dancers and workers from his mature years that are the most commercially popular (the current work on paper record is the premium-inclusive $37m/ £23.35m/€29m paid for Danseuse au repos of 1879 at Sotheby’s New York in 2008).
A view from the Degas family on his works at auction
18 April 2017Marielle Barde, Edgar Degas’ great-niece, was one of the heirs and vendors of the Degas studio drawings and attended Christie’s Paris sale. This was the second such dispersal the family had held in these rooms of artworks from her famous great-uncle following a house move some decades ago.
Paris auction previews: Quentin de la Tour pastel and 18th century Belgian teapot
18 April 2017This pastel portrait by Maurice Quentin de la Tour is the potential star of the auction taking place at Drouot held by Kalck & Associés.
Massachusetts auction preview: American banker’s Asian art collection
18 April 2017A 600-lot sale devoted to Asian art held by Tremont auctions in Newton, Massachusetts, on April 23 will include a 4ft (1.2m) high vase made in the late 19th century.
Trees blossom in fruitful photo auctions in New York
13 April 2017The cusp of March to April is traditionally photo time in the Big Apple. It is the period when AIPAD (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers) stages The Photography Show, which is the main US fair for photography, and the point when the major New York auction houses put on the first of their biannual stateside series of photo auctions.
Napoleon’s gold ring given to young love takes €29,000 in Fontainebleau auction
12 April 2017A gold ring set that was given by the young Napoleon to a youthful love, Caroline du Colombier, sold for a double estimate €29,000 (£25,220) at a recent auction in France.
Daniel Quare barometer heats up Austrian auction
10 April 2017Daniel Quare (1648-1724) is primarily known as a clock and watchmaker. He was, however, also an accomplished maker of portable barometers, one of which came up for sale at Dorotheum (25/22/15% buyer’s premium) in Vienna on March 29.
Extensive collection of Picasso ceramics appears at Sotheby's auction
06 April 2017Eighty-six lots of ceramics by Pablo Picasso come up for sale on April 10 in Sotheby’s annual dedicated auction in London.
Rodin turns heads in Paris and Pau
05 April 2017With this year marking the centenary of the sculptor’s death, Auguste Rodin is much in the news. While the Grand Palais in Paris is marking the event with a major exhibition, Fraysse et Associés sold a 2ft 1in (64cm) high lifetime cast bronze figural group for €1.55m (£1.35m) at Drouot on March 22.
Show your metal
05 April 2017Included among the objects section of many sales featuring oak and vernacular material there are often examples of early metalware.
International previews: Rome
05 April 2017Included in the April 10 sale of Old Masters, antique furniture, ceramics and works of art that is part of Babuino’s sale series in Rome this month is this small painting by the early 17th century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.
International previews: Maine
05 April 2017A highlight of James D Julia’s latest arms and militaria sale on April 11 is this rare Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund sword, one of 23 awarded to captains who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar.
Fettercairn Jewel returns to Scotland
05 April 2017Enforcing its Scottish significance, a Renaissance gold pendant known as the Fettercairn Jewel has been bought by the National Museums Scotland.