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Asian art hammer highlights at regional sales
05 June 2017A selection of stand-out results from auctions around the UK.
Music sale performs with style
05 June 2017Regarded by many as Gustav Mahler’s greatest song for voice and orchestra, ‘Ich bin der Weit abhanden gekommen’ was just one of many first-class performances featured in a 53-lot music sale conducted by Sotheby’s (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on May 23.
Bountiful Burmantofts collection emerges at Salisbury auction
05 June 2017Earlier this year Woolley & Wallis decorative arts specialist Michael Jeffery received a call out of the blue from the family of a recently deceased collector in the south of England.
Anne Frank’s diary in Dutch and English form
05 June 2017In recent times a few examples of the 1947, Dutch text, first printing of Anne Frank’s famous diary (part of a print run of just 1500 copies) have come to auction.
Christie's South Kensington to hold final sale on July 19
05 June 2017Christie’s UK chairman says the closure of Christie’s South Kensington, the largest upheaval in the firm’s recent history, “has been a very painful decision for all but for the long-term health of the business it is right”.
Pure escapism: gambling and Houdini in Chicago auction
05 June 2017A ‘gambling’ sale held on May 5-6 by Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) produced what may be a record bid of $8500 (£6590) on a 1902 first of SW Erdnase’s The Expert at the Card Table.
Pop goes the easel for Eduardo Paolozzi lots
05 June 2017A selection of vibrant prints, artist’s proofs and portrait studies by the 20th century artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is up for sale in County Durham.
Cruikshank cartoons count at auction
05 June 2017A rare and complete set of The Scourge…, a monthly publication of the early 19th century that also described itself as the …Expositor of Imposture and Folly, brought a record bid of $9000 (£6075) in a Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of May 16.
Photo sales develop in Paris
05 June 2017A clutch of photograph sales is coming up this month in Paris. Among them is Millon and Baron Ribeyre’s two-day auction on June 13 and 16.
Mayfair gallery exhibition shows that Rodin sculpture is readily available to start a collection
05 June 2017On the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s (1840-1917) death the French sculptor is still much in evidence.
General Election 2017: What the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems pledge on key issues affecting art and antiques
05 June 2017Brexit, tax, business rates, employment rights and ivory top the list of issues for the art and antiques sector, readers have told Antiques Trade Gazette, as the general election looms this week.
Bidders on hunt for field sports pictures
05 June 2017“In the 19th century, before football came along, it was all about field sports,” says Iain Byatt-Smith of Bonhams’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) Scottish picture department.
Sussex buyer follows the plough
05 June 2017A painting by equine artist Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) sold for four times its top guide at Bellmans (20% buyer’s premium).
Crumb's Fritz cosies up to Charlene for Chicago sale
05 June 2017“Artworks from Underground Comix – especially from masters such as Robert Crumb – are becoming recognised in the fine art world as cultural cornerstones.”
Saint's son portrait bust heads Basel sale
05 June 2017Bailly et Beuret’s next auction series takes place in the Swiss city on June 21. On offer are over 460 lots divided between four catalogues and covering works from the 14th to 19th centuries, Swiss and contemporary art.
Austrian dealer moves into former Mallett premises
05 June 2017White walls, harsh lighting, edgy urban location: this is the usual checklist for global contemporary art galleries, writes Laura Chesters.
Daubigny goes with the flow
05 June 2017A Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-78) painting that had been in the same private collection since 1963 topped Nesbits’ (19% buyer’s premium) sale in Portsmouth on May 17.
The £13m Asian art boon for London as Silk Road begins to run dry
05 June 2017“It was one of those eureka moments,” said Rosemary Scott, Chinese ceramics specialist at Christie’s. “My colleague Jeremy Morgan was on a perfectly normal valuation visit when he walked into the drawing room and there, on the mantelpiece, he saw these vases. He couldn’t believe his eyes.”
Sir Peter Lely drawing surfaces in Nantes
05 June 2017This drawing of a young girl by the Dutch-born artist Sir Peter Lely (1618-80), who was official portrait painter to the English court, features in a sale at Ivoire Nantes on June 13.
My lord: £200,000 for Siena scene
05 June 2017This depiction of a 16th century bullfight in Siena’s Piazza del Campo starred in Christie’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of the collection of the late Lord Weidenfeld.
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