2026

A fragmented Old Master portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654), with the head and shoulders of the sitter cut out, took a hammer price of €650,000 (£563,305) at Dorotheum.

Museums came prepared to buy at the recent staging of Asia Week New York.

Three large horse portraits by the British artist John Wootton (1682-1764) will be on display at The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket following an allocation from Arts Council’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme.

A huge wool and silk tapestry titled The Meeting of Dante and Virgil and dated to 1546-49 will be restored with funding from The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) Museum Restoration Fund.

Volumes from the personal library of a pioneering British scholar of Armenian and Iranian studies form part of Sworders’ latest Books and Maps auction.

One of the dealers stalling out at the two-day Ardingly International Antiques & Collectors Fair last week was shocked to discover a Second World War shell among his possessions.

Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland offered what was billed as “the most comprehensive private holding of works by John Tunnard (1900-71) ever to come to the market” this week.

German auction market in shock after news that Neumeister will close.

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of a large Flambé Landscape vase setting a new high for any piece of Moorcroft

A group of rare books and a bound collection of 37 love letters written by the Romantic poet John Keats to his fiancée Fanny Brawne have been recovered and returned to the family.

A round up of gallery shows launched this month.

A small group of previously unseen preliminary drawings by Winnie-the-Pooh illustrator EH Shepard were offered by book dealer Peter Harrington.

An original Manchester United sign that stood proudly aloft at Old Trafford is among the lots at Budds’ upcoming Made In Manchester sale.

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

A rediscovered naïve painting showing Marlborough College in the years before the school was founded has been sold by a dealer to the college itself.

A selection of updates from across the auctioneering world

The quarter-century old auction record for Moorcroft pottery has been broken with the sale of a massive Flambé Landscape pattern vase for £32,000.

The memento mori pendant depicted in a celebrated 17th century family portrait on the theme of grief, mortality, and religious faith, has been discovered.

The buyer of an Olympic winner’s medal from the first Olympic Games has been revealed by auction house Bruun Rasmussen.