Print issue 2650 (06 July 2024)
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News
- ‘California’ era Hockney viewed as a £320,000 discovery
- First Folio finds new home in a ‘subversive adult Disneyland’
- Eye of the Collector combines the old and the new in lavish style
- Italian Renaissance armour emerges for public auction
- Bidders fired up for exceptional flintlock
- The Treasure House Fair brings out the sunshine
- Cracked in the attic: broken crockery was worth £162,000
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2650
- UK sale offers Peale’s presidential depiction
- Lot reveals story of the Lumberjills
- Precious metals prices: issue 2650
- News in brief including an export bar on Louis XIV's table top
Feature
- Royal approval for the work of George Michael Moser once dubbed ‘England’s favourite goldsmith’
- Two Bulgari Serpenti jewels slither into salerooms
- Cartier brooches come with Courtauld appeal
- Fabergé’s cool creations ‘inspired by ice crystals’
- Marcus & Co captured the Art Nouveau colour and confidence
- Picq your interest in the Parisian designer
- Buyers connect with an assortment of Arts & Crafts belt buckles sold recently at auction
- Georgian ring flagged up and locket with mourning glory
- Henry VIII's six wives: exploring the jewels they wore
Auction Reports
- ART MARKET: Harvey’s herd but just one human
- Paul Nash’s rare interior view starts among Bussock Wood selection
- Trevelyan inspired by the stony landscapes of Malta
- A family provenance to chew on: collection bought with proceeds of a biscuit empire
Books & Works On Paper
- Mystery writer's musings on meteorites prove a big hit at auction
- Marx makes a dedication in Das Kapital
- Innovative Earth design ready for assembly
- Camus classic written in poverty takes six-figure sum
- Personal signed Churchill letter to his old teacher adds up to £14,000
- Photographer Deakin captured the Soho social whirl
- Books and works on paper auction calendar, July 3-31, 2024
Previews
Dealers’ diary
- Staying put at the starting gun
- Five questions with Streett Marburg
- Enduring Legacy of antiquities from the Egyptians to the Romans at Forgelynch
- Art as a force in nature
Fair Report
International
- Harry Davis Royal Worcester polar bears on the prowl in the US
- Scarpa’s brush with success when it came to glass making
- Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze seals a sensational price
- Artist who was blown away by hot air balloons
- Automatic peeler with lots of appeal
- ‘G’ marks jug as a Gorham production
- Crouching Venus copy makes a stand-out sum
- Toxicologist with style and substances when it came to life and collecting
- Wheellock from French king’s famed collection comes to US saleroom