Print issue 2534 (19 March 2022)
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News
- Barcelona bidders on the trail of a ‘Bouts’ portrait
- US dealers challenge New York antique ivory regulations
- Anglo-Saxon coin emerged from stubble
- Dixon takes LAPADA vice chairman role
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Henry VIII spoons emerge from storage
- Bid Barometer: issue 2534
- Portrait ‘by 16-year-old Thomas Gainsborough’ consigned to Cambridge sale
- Precious metals prices: issue 2534
- News in brief – including a recipient of the TEFAF Restoration Fund conserving a rare Hebrew illuminated manuscript
Feature
- MEDALS AND MILITARIA: Demand for medal groups backed by stirring accounts of bravery shows no sign of easing up
- If you can’t afford a full-size VC try a miniature version
- Two quality collections stand to attention at Thomas Del Mar auction
- Story of a redoubtable Irish nationalist and social reformer
- Caterpillar and dolphin dangers
- Photo record of a First World War nurse’s work
- Tank Museum buys blueprint for the monstrous Mark 1
- Walter Sickert’s way to Tipperary
Auction Reports
- Contents from Tudor manor owner shows eye for excellence
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: First burst of feminist thinking
- Golden oldies at Cumbria auction
- British and Irish book auctions: March 15-26, 2022
Previews
Special Report
- OLD MASTERS: Young auctioneers touched by a 16th century angel
- Ulmann collection: Drawings amassed by doctor duo go under the hammer
- Unfinished ‘van Dyck’ stars in Sloane St debut
- Angelica Kauffman portrait reassessed as a George Romney attracts bidding at West Sussex sale
- Lewis couple consignments guided in the millions at Christie’s
- Flemish flourish as lively Old Master emerges at Bellmans
- Grand design from a Venetian artist abroad
- Young at art: Meet the dealers under 30 who specialise in Old Masters
- International fairs on the rise again as the shadow of the pandemic fades
- Rediscovered Galizia still-life bears fruit for Colnaghi
Dealers’ Diary
- Bath Decorative Fair celebrates spring with return to former spot in the calendar
- Between Poland and London: The immigrant artist who made his name in Wales
- Dealer news in brief including Ukrainian aid efforts and a portrait miniature reattribution
- Single owner collection of Weatherill watercolours stars in Harrogate
- 5 Questions with Rosey Ford of Serendipity Antiques
International
- Sale season off to a roaring start in Germany
- French inventor Colmar's Arithmomètre sells in German saleroom
- Wiener Werkstatte design catches the eye at Metz
- Brockhusen depicts Berlin with a van Gogh influence
- Kubin’s disturbing demonic creations to be offered in Basel
- Painting inspired by icy adventures sails into Stuttgart auction
- Commode linked to Parisian ebeniste Nicolas Sageot offered in Swiss sale
- Collection from German castle hidden in wooden crates for 90 years emerges in Munich
- Restituted Lovis Corinth comes to auction in Cologne
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Enys House Antiques & Decorative Fair becomes biannual event
- Wyke showcases a wider range of room settings
- Make a date for Midhurst's Phoenix fair
- News in brief – a round up of Fairs and Markets news