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A ‘long lost’ painting by Modern British artist Joan Eardley (1921-63) has been sold for £29,500 by The Scottish Gallery after it was rediscovered in an East Midlands charity shop.

A new museum currently under construction just outside Paris has made two purchases at Hôtel Drouot this month.

The one-time home of the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire will open to the public for one day this summer as part of an East Anglian literary festival.

Condolences and memories of the well-respected Asian art dealer Michael Goedhuis were shared by the trade this week following his death aged 84.

A Devon museum is in discussion with a jewellery dealer for the loan of a Tudor ring discovered by a metal-detectorist.

With estimates from £30 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 fundraising appeal for a Walpole-commissioned painting by Strawberry Hill House.