Latest News Articles by Noelle McElhatton
Trade associations to mount survey on financial impact of ivory ban
14 January 2019Art market trade bodies are commissioning a survey to assess the potential financial impact on buyers, sellers and collectors of antique ivory of a law that will usher in a near-total ban on the UK ivory trade.
Kempton Park fair is the year’s front runner
14 January 2019Bi-monthly Sunbury event has carved out a strong niche – a picture special.
Trade associations to mount survey on financial impact of ivory ban
14 January 2019Antiques trade bodies are stepping up their plans for a judicial review of the Ivory Act that will come into law later this year.
Mod Brit art for under £1000 at Sworders' Barbara Holliday collection sale
11 January 2019As the Barbara Holliday collection of Mod Brit art goes under the hammer on January 15 at Sworders, ATG talks to the sale's curator to discover lots that prove owning work by a blue-chip Mod Brit artist doesn’t have to cost the earth.
And they're off! Who was selling what at this week's Kempton Park fair
09 January 2019It's only the second week of the new year and temperatures outside have plummeted. Try telling this to the trade – sellers and buyers – as well as privates who came to the year’s first Sunbury Antiques Market fair at Kempton Park to find a few diamonds in the rough.
We need clarity on customs, say art shippers
07 January 2019UK art shippers are urging the government to speed up Brexit ‘deal or no deal’ preparations at the country’s major ferry ports as the UK prepares to leave the European Union on March 29.
New year, new resolutions: 12 pledges to make 2019 a good year to be in art and antiques
07 January 2019Art market players reveal what is top of their to-do list in 2019.
New year, new resolutions: 12 pledges to make 2019 a good year to be in art and antiques
04 January 2019As the new year kicks off, we asked art market players for the one big thing they resolve to do over the next 12 months. Steering clear of pledging to keep fit, quit smoking and saving more money, our sample instead focused on the business of buying and selling art and antiques and improved ways of doing so.
Five pieces of post-war British glass for sale at SAS next week
03 January 2019Well-known and rare glass designs feature in the 200-plus lots from a single-owner collection for sale at Special Auction Services on Tuesday, January 8.
A tale of two fairs: A special look at the Newark and Alexandra Palace events
17 December 2018At the height of winter across one week, IACF mounts two fairs catering for different audiences. Noelle McElhatton visited the events at Alexandra Palace and Newark to see what brings the punters out in hail, wind or rain.
Buyers travel from far and wide for the Ally Pally vibe
17 December 2018“There are great fairs and brocantes in France but this is special, not least because of the venue.”
‘Most of our clients want English antiques’
17 December 2018Though the organisation IACF is best known by its acronym, it’s hard to forget what the initials stand for. AA road signs guiding drivers into the Newark showground emphasise the word ‘international’ and the fair is known for its ability to attract overseas trade buyers.
Overseas visitors look for Victorian value at Newark
17 December 2018Though IACF Newark markets itself firmly as a trade fair, it ensures the public has access too, in particular die-hard collectors who similar to trade buyers, know the dealers they want to visit.
The new wave of dealers attending Newark to buy
17 December 2018“What’s the death on this snuff mull?” asks Tom Hurst, a dealer in African and Oceanic art attending Newark to buy for his online shop and in preparation for his first stand at Tribal Art London in 2019.
Coming back for more: buyers from London, France and beyond return to IACF’s Christmas Ally Pally
07 December 2018A key measure of business success, marketers will tell you, is the returning customer. There were plenty of those – stall holders, buyers and stall-holding buyers – packing the Alexandra Palace on Sunday, December 1.
Behind the scenes ahead of Chiswick Auctions’ debut Photographica sale
28 November 2018ATG meets Chiswick Auctions’ photographica specialist Austin Farahar and previews his inaugural sale ahead of the auction today.
Preview: from Old Master to modern, marine pictures from £70 to £40,000 for sale in Sussex this week
27 November 2018For their depiction of military dramas, trade wars and man’s battle with the lethal power of the sea, marine paintings are a highly distinctive genre, as a selection from John Nicholson's monthly picture sale tomorrow (Wednesday, November 28) shows.
Silver and glass menagerie – First bite of extensive collection of animal decanters sells at Essex auction house
26 November 2018One half of an extensive single-owner collection of novelty Victorian and Edwardian silver and glass animal objects went under the hammer at Reeman Dansie’s two-day sale in Colchester last week.
Sotheby’s and Bonhams stop selling rhino horn at auction in Hong Kong after wildlife group pressure
26 November 2018Sotheby’s is the latest auction house to pull the sale of rhinocerous horn artefacts from its auction.
Preview: Dreweatts has high hopes for a pair of George III marquetry card tables and a Rodin cast this week
19 November 2018Revitalised by the arrival in late summer of former Bellmans chief Jonathan Pratt as managing director, Dreweatts is preparing for two key auctions at its Donnington Priory saleroom this week on November 21 and 22.