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The government’s updated list of businesses whose premises must close as UK enters three-week lockdown to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus includes all dealers, centres, fairs and auctions.

The owner of a painting by Mod Brit artist Terry Frost (1915-2003) is appealing for help after he left it on a train from London to Milton Keynes on January 23.

An historic archive belonging to the engineer who oversaw the design of the Mulberry Harbours in the Second World War has been bought by a museum after being offered at Mitchells’ auction last week.

Philip Mould is putting his own spin on ‘working from home’ as he welcomes the public to his Oxfordshire estate.

With estimates from £1000-10,000 here are four previews of upcoming items this week that you can view and bid for remotely.

A painting by the pioneering Indian abstract artist Vasudeo S Gaitonde (1924-2001) led Sotheby’s anniversary sale of Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art in New York when it sold for a hammer price of $1.5m (£1.25m) against a $1m-1.5m estimate.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of major changes to the auctions and fairs calendar, as well the theft of three valuable Old Master paintings stolen in raid on an Oxford college.