News topics

Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) remains the most established name on the secondary market when it comes to modern Indian pictures.

North Yorkshire Police has issued a plea for information following the theft of antique and vintage jewellery from an antiques centre in York.

A rebrand at Bonhams and promotions at Woolley & Wallis are among this week’s Movers & Shakers

A model of Nelson’s flagship Victory made by French prisoners-of-war a few years before the Battle of Trafalgar which was later given to Margaret Thatcher has sold for a £92,000 hammer price.

With estimates from £400, 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 Quentin Blake illustrations appearing at an auction in West Sussex including the original artwork for the cover of ‘Tales of Arabel’s Raven’

A portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) will be offered at Christie’s this summer.

French billionaire François Henri ‌Pinault has been ​named as ‌the new chairman of Christie's, which is owned ‌by his family investment ‌holding Artemis.

A fraudster who tried to sell stone sculptures with false provenance through Sotheby’s has been sentenced after a three-and-a-half year investigation by the Met Police’s Art and Antiques Unit.

English Heritage has launched an appeal to help find three portraits by artist Frederic Leighton (1839-96) once on display at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire.

On June 2, Dreweatts is selling the contents of the London home furnished by a renowned Christie’s auctioneer and a distinguished interior decorator.