Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
Pewter pleases for a second time
13 November 2023Suffolk sale includes further selection from Chapman collection – but sculpture brings big surprise
Fab Paris boasts a big increase in exhibitors
13 November 2023The second instalment of FAB Paris, the fair resulting from the merger of Fine Arts Paris and La Biennale, will be staged this November but for the first time it moves from its previous home at the Carrousel du Louvre.
In step with Guerrand-Hermès
06 November 2023Between December 13 and 19 Sotheby’s Paris rooms will offer a series of live and online auctions of works from the collection of Hubert Guerrand-Hermès (1940-2016), a descendant of the founder of the famous firm Hermès.
Magritte painting makes its first appearance at auction
06 November 2023Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9% buyer’s premium plus 1% overhead premium) staged three Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary auctions in Paris during the second half of October.
The sound of eighties classics
06 November 2023On September 21 Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr (28/27/21/14.5% buyer’s premium) held a sale in Paris celebrating the decade of the 1980s.
Howard Hodgkin opens a Moroccan door
06 November 2023The British artist Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) is well known as both a painter and printmaker.
Paris puts on an auction show at fair time
06 November 2023A raft of Modern and Contemporary art auctions were held in Paris in the second half of October coinciding with the Paris + par Art Basel fair held at the Grand Palais Ephemère.
Pen and wash works marked for Hans Bols make waves
23 October 2023Old Master drawings inscribed for Flemish artist Hans Bols blow away the estimates in Chartres
Bidder contemplation of Mai-Thu brings five figures
23 October 2023An example of 20th century French-influenced painting by the Vietnamese artist Mai-Thu (1906-80) proved to be atop-selling lot.
Southern barbarians march into a Nanban work
23 October 2023Nanban, meaning ‘southern barbarians’, was the Japanese term for Europeans.
Chinese art from a German family
16 October 2023A collection of Chinese art from a German family collection formed over many decades is to be offered in Paris by Bonhams Cornette Saint Cyr on October 26.
Eighteenth century plates from Steel collection
16 October 2023Around 20 lots of delftware, mostly plates, tiles and chargers with modest estimates, featured in the sale of the Diana Steel collection.
Jonathan Horne sale: Importance of name recognition to auction success
16 October 2023Consignment from the late dealer Jonathan Horne helps a buoyant ceramics section in the saleroom
Work of Wiese father and son team
16 October 2023On December 5 in Paris Tajan will be selling items from a private collection of jewellery assembled over the past 40 years.
Mansion once owned by marquis furnishes desirable lots
16 October 2023On November 8 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Aguttes will auction contents from La Maison Sémonville.
Bullish price for Capron creation
16 October 2023The Roger Capron Navettes table from Tajan’s (26/21/14% buyer’s premium) September 19 sale of modern and contemporary ceramics, which was previewed in ATG No 2609, sold for €1000 (£870) including premium.
French marshal’s baton handed on to new owner after auction
16 October 2023Relic belonging to French military hero sells in Versailles, with one of Napoleon’s bicorn hats still to come
Jacobite drinking glasses toast Old and Young Pretenders to the throne
09 October 2023Hot on the heels of just over 20 lots of 18th century Jacobite drinking glasses offered at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on August 16 (see ATG No 2607), more of these desirable items appeared at two other salerooms.
Get into the ceramics groove: second slice of the Seymour Stein collection
02 October 2023Collector who helped Madonna on road to stardom becomes the centre of attention in West Sussex saleroom
It’s a small world: Cary pocket globes emerge in two sales
02 October 2023Three-inch globes were mostly sold as pocket globes, typically as a terrestrial globe contained within a ray-skin case with the celestial gores for the heavens pasted inside.