Print issue 2426 (25 January 2020)
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News
- ‘Time to concentrate on us’ says Lennox Cato as Edenbridge Galleries winds down
- Guilty pleas heard in Pittsburgh library theft
- London Impressionist sale to include oils restituted from Musée d’Orsay and Gurlitt
- Artist Kit Williams' early clues on how to decipher the Masquerade
- Eight Victorian animal troughs stolen since September
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Medieval gaming piece depicting Aesop’s Fable sells for £40,000
- Bid Barometer: issue 2426
- Collection of British Library designers to be offered at Sworders' auction
- Precious metals prices: issue 2426
- News In Brief – including a copy of Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ emerging at auction
Feature
- ARMS AND ARMOUR: Acting class – Impressive collection sold at Bonhams
- Stone Age weapons at the cutting edge of early technology
- Go for a Gatling to get bling for your bucks
- Holts heads home to the rural charm of Norfolk
- Rock Island auction goes supersize
- Sabres suggest the swashbuckling world of Hornblower
- Five examples showing how exotic Eastern blades remain a key fixture at auction
- Armour through the ages: three lots commanding bids in winter sales
Auction Reports
- New year temptations: a feast of Poole, Minton, Troika and Border ceramics on the menu
- Woodward walking canes on a stroll
- Artist's Irish glass collection features in Dublin auction
- Black Forest clock hunted down
- A truly eye-catching lot in Bristol
- ART MARKET: Bidders show a homing instinct
- Sensitive portrait of ‘quiet Ulsterman’ grabs the attention
- Pick up a penguin picture
- Victorian artist William Mitchell impresses at Mitchells’ auction
- Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including a Henry Moore etching
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Lewd awakenings in salerooms
- Poe-faced search for inspiration
- The Man on the Moon lives in a pumpkin
- Bible that sets out its time, place, date – and printer
- The real Carroll looking glass
- British and Irish book auctions: January 21-February 8, 2020
Previews
Collector Interview
Dealers’ Diary
- London Calling: Mall Galleries hosts second staging of the Connect fair
- Bernadette bounds into London Art Fair
- 5 Questions: Richard Turkington of Fifties Art and Design
- The web shop window: George Jones majolica 'kingfisher' dish
- Striking Russian Empire chairs offered at Petersfield Antiques Fair
- New decade, new premises: six dealers opening new shops
International
- US auctions: New York series of Old Master drawings includes 'triumphant' equestrian studies
- Mark Twain in the frame as carte de visite emerges in Philadelphia
- Gifford takes the Grand Tour
- Chelsea porcelain dishes appear in New Jersey sale
- Napoleonic family value at Doyle auction
- Picasso ceramic design comes to Florida
- Liverpool creamware jugs reflect taste of the American market
- Royal Worcester ewer offered in Dania Beach auction
- Sèvres flower vase offered at Bonhams Los Angeles
- Dummy paratrooper 'Rupert' drops in for D-Day
- Canes on parade in Chicago sale
- French cat painter's felines head to Heritage sale
Fairs & Markets
- Jaguar’s day at the races: Organising duo launch fresh format to be held fives times a year
- Grandma’s Attic now runs Emmott events
- Marsh takes a full floor at Cumbrian centre
- York book fair attracts record crowd
Letters & Opinion
- A lawyer writes: Hals or not, ‘reasonable and rational’ wins out
- By a Smyth… but not that one
- How charging a lot for packing could cost you much more in the long term
The Back Page
- Art Detective: help identify a mystery portrait of Anne Clive
- Art Detective: About a boy
- Giant crossword answers from the Christmas edition of ATG - Issue 2422
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