Print issue 2624 (06 January 2024)
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News
- Having a blast: 18th century mortar fires up Essex auction
- Auction sales totals for top auction houses sum up a year of fluctuation
- William Nicholson still-life doubles top estimate at west London auction
- Howzat for a marble sculpture thought to be one of the first depictions of a cricketer
- New Midlands art fair details announced
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Mexican nun’s badge found in Norfolk
- Marie-Antoinette’s chair sets an auction record
- News in brief including a lifetime portrait of George Washington coming to auction
- Bid Barometer: issue 2624
- Precious metals prices: issue 2624
Auction Reports
- Condiments of the season: mustard pots bonanza in the saleroom
- Just ¾in but with 48 blades — a remarkable exhibition knife
- ART MARKET: Renaldi captures the imagination at London Old Master sales
- London calling for two artists a century apart
- Remarkable Rembrandt print prices as Christie's disperses Sam Josefowitz collection
- Rachel Ruysch attribution bears fruit
- Romney screen stands out as an unusual offering
Books & Works On Paper
- Tale of an 18th century US journey returns Stateside
- Forster’s letters and books to the policeman he loved
- Life of a debutante — and views of destroyed ships
- Fascinating Fleetwood Mac material reveals the road to stardom
- Bowie lyrics make a stellar result in Merseyside sale
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, January 3-21, 2024
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Circus lit up London fair venue nearly a century before artworks
- The web shop window: temperance movement Staffordshire figures
- Mapplethorpe without the whips
- 5 Questions with sculpture specialist Willoughby Gerrish
International
- Items collected by renowned dealer Ernest Brummer take high prices
- Ambrose Gardner signs in at auction
- Komai casket demonstrates Meiji metalwork at its very best
- Micromosaic plaque with maximum decorative effect
- Boilly link? That'll do the trick
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Spa town’s book fairs boom again
- French and Scottish-based dealers support Malvern flea fair
- Love Fairs delighted with ‘excellent’ Detling growth
Letters
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