Print issue 2275 (21 January 2017)

News

• Woolleys stays top of regional league table with seven-figure Benin sale
• Getting ahead in Salisbury
• Windfall lots make the difference for regional rooms
• 2016: The rich pickings from China
• SJ Phillips moves upstairs in Mayfair
• 2016: the auctioneers’ view
• Harrogate fair assumes new name and directorship
• Partridge vendor returns Turkish burial vessel

News Digest

• Top Story: Outcry as Kempton Park is threatened with closure
• Pick of the Week: A profiteer of the South Sea Bubble
• Bid Barometer - issue 2275
• Waugh’s ‘disgusting object’ revisited
• News In Brief
• THEN & NOW

Newsmaker

• Skilled in the art of diplomacy

Auction Reports

• Irish porringer heads for home
• Vendor provides nude women and a mouse
• Deco figures down in value
• Lighters fuel demand
• Samplers point the way to the quality bringing over £1000
• Fans create waves at auction
• International brigade advances
• Wizard of Oz
• Barry and Henry on a high
• Newton’s giant leap for mankind
• Previews become results – a look at how featured lots fared
• Children’s books at auction
• Rackham turns to second sale appearance
• Dark days for illuminated manscripts at auction
• BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS
• Buyer’s Premiums

Previews

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Dealer’s Diary

• Battersea powers double event
• Feel grape at the Pavilions
• Get your claws into print show
• 5 Questions
• The Bacon and Freud approach to prints

International Events

• Take a trip to the Tour & Taxis
• Gallery Desmet
• Didier Claes Gallery
• Xavier Eeckhout
• Whitford Fine Art
• La Patinoire Royale
• Beyond BRAFA: the Winter Bruneaf
• A state of flux – situation normal
• Jewellery highlights from the new Palm Beach Show Group event at Miami Beach

Auction Calendar

• Local art hero

Fairs & Markets

• Style 1900 plants roots in Sussex
• Factfile: Compton Pottery
• Welsh artist back home from France
• Salvo marks rebrand with smart new look
• Piece together the jigsaw collecting scene

Letters to the editor

• You should cover ‘real cost’
• I referred to collectors, not trade
• Ladle or coffee bean roaster?

The Back Page

• Soapbox
• Obituary
• People

Around the auction houses

• Size matters to evolving sale formats
• Pennsylvanian news…
• Prints follow Mod Brits as Sworders stamps its approval
• Auctioneer recalls early bone of contention

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