Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Artist happy to chop and change
18 November 2019At various stages of painting 'Pear Still Life' (1971), Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009) included a golden bird, a yellow rose and constellation of five-pointed stars.
Dealer duo stage St James’s exhibition featuring old and recent views of London
18 November 2019'Lights o’ London – Glasshouse Street by Piccadilly Circus' is among more than 20 works by Rex Vicat Cole (1870-1940) and his son John on offer at a show featuring depictions of the capital spanning 200 years.
They said what!? Reactions to flood-hit Derby and other quotes from the art and antiques market
17 November 2019From Blitz spirit to bagging bargains find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week.
Most read: ATG’s top stories this week – including a trio of top Asian art lots
16 November 2019The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of two charity shop finds that went under the hammer and one other chart topper, all included in recent Asian art auctions.
Cocteau's mythological ceramics appear at Bonhams auction
12 November 2019The largest collection of Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) ceramics ever to go under the hammer is offered at Bonhams next month.
Westbourne Grove pop-up
11 November 2019Valerie Arieta Decorative Arts stages a Christmas show at its Westbourne Grove pop-up shop this year, offering Mezcala stone figures from Mexico among other art and antiques.
5 Questions with Tom Smith of Dovecote Antiques
11 November 2019Tom Smith of Dovecote Antiques next stands at Art & Antiques for Everyone (November 28-December 1) in Birmingham’s NEC.
Dealer line up for reinvigorated Art and Antiques for Everyone Fair winter edition
11 November 2019Medieval glass flask is a highlight of the big art and antiques fair in Birmingham.
MS Rau all set to wow with enlarged premises
11 November 2019New Orleans dealership MS Rau has opened an expanded retail space after three years of renovation.
Exhibition examines chiaroscuro in East Anglian art
11 November 2019An oil on board of The Hay Barge by William Philip Barnes Freeman (1813-97) is offered for £795 at English and Continental Antiques’ upcoming exhibition of East Anglian art and antiques.
Show features artist with an appetite for destruction
11 November 2019The décollage technique practised by German artist Reinhold Koehler (1919-70) involved the use of paper, sand, glue, glass and ceramics, and a series of the resulting compositions is currently available at London’s Whitford Fine Art.
The web shop window: Russian icon from The Temple Gallery
11 November 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Early Wemyss ink stand features at Galloway's Scone Palace fair
04 November 2019An early Wemyss Victoria pattern ink stand decorated with plumbs is offered by Carse Antiques for £395 at The Scone Palace Antiques & Fine Art Fair.
The web shop window: a cockerel weathervane at Robert Young Antiques
04 November 2019Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Cotswolds show venue search finds a spectacular setting
04 November 2019Organisers of the long-running Cotswolds Art & Antique Dealers Association Fair have hailed changes to its date and venue as offering a “wonderful” setting and the chance to expand the event’s client base.
Dial in for clocks by great makers at Kensington exhibition
04 November 2019Dealer marks 25 years on Kensington Church Street with an exhibition of English big names
5 Questions: Jeroen Markies of Jeroen Markies Art Deco
04 November 2019Jeroen Markies of Jeroen Markies Art Deco is based in East Sussex and next stands at the Winter Art & Antiques Fair (November 5-10).
Go for a close shave at Olympia
28 October 2019Chinese barber’s bowl is a stand-out item at event now running in a revamped format.
Take the chair in Harrogate
28 October 2019The final instalment of the three annual Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair includes this small naive hedge or country chair, c.1820, from Ireland’s County Antrim.
William Scott reintroduced to the US
28 October 2019In 1953, British artist William Scott (1913- 89) made his first inroads into the New York art scene. James Johnson Sweeney, director of the Guggenheim, went to an exhibition of his work in London and reported to gallerist Martha Jackson: “At last England has a painter.”