Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Hockney leads Sotheby’s Contemporary art evening sale at £21m
12 February 2020Sotheby’s set the third-highest price for a work by David Hockney (b.1937) in London last night.
Impressionist and Modern auctions post lowest totals for a February series in a decade
10 February 2020The latest Impressionist & Modern auctions in London posted the lowest total for a February series in this category for a decade.
René Magritte surrealist scene lifts Christie’s modern art auction in London
07 February 2020Auction records for Tamara de Lempicka and George Grosz boosted Christie’s latest Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art evening sales in London but it was a surrealist scene by René Magritte that made the largest contribution to the night’s total.
Recovered works top Sotheby’s modern art auction
06 February 2020Pictures restored to the family of an important Jewish collector whose property had been seized by the Nazis led Sotheby’s latest evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art in London.
Mantegna and Tiepolo make the difference in ‘highest NY Old Master total in five years’
03 February 2020Two key consignments, one painting and one drawing, lifted the latest Old Master series in New York to the highest total for five years.
Medical researcher’s mill scene by LS Lowry sells for £2.2m at Christie’s
24 January 2020A painting by LS Lowry (1887-1976) that had never before been seen in public led Christie’s Modern British art evening sale in London on January 21.
Nazi-looted paintings by Pissarro and Signac that entered the Musée d’Orsay to be offered at Sotheby’s
16 January 2020Three Impressionist paintings believed to be worth over £14m that were taken by the Nazis during the Second World War but recently restituted to the heirs of a French-Jewish art collector will be offered at Sotheby’s in London next month.
Lawyer’s new book published covering the ‘nuts and bolts’ of art market law
14 January 2020A recent addition to Elgar Practical Guides – a series of handy, concise and practical guides to a range of legal practice areas – has been penned by Martin Wilson, the chief general counsel at Phillips Auctioneers.
US tariffs on Chinese art “diverts market elsewhere”, says Sotheby’s
08 January 2020Sotheby’s has added its weight to the art market’s response against President Donald Trump’s imposition of import tariffs on Chinese works of art in the US.
Top stories this week – including our pick of 10 outstanding dealer sales in the last year
05 January 2020The most popular stories on this website over the last week included our selection of the most unusual and wonderful objects that dealers sold in the last 12 months.
France blocks export of €19.5m Cimabue panel following sale to overseas buyer
03 January 2020The French government has blocked the export of ‘The mocking of Christ’, a medieval panel by Cenni di Pepo (known as Cimabue) that sold in October for €19.5m plus premium at auction house Actéon.
Six top Old Masters sold at auction in 2019
30 December 2019This year has seen some notable action in the Old Master market including some major rediscoveries which led to some extraordinary bidding at auction. Here ATG picks out six highlights sold across 2019.
Jeremy Lamond conducts last sale at Halls
12 December 2019Jeremy Lamond’s final auction as Halls’ fine art director took place this week with the annual Christmas sale in Shrewsbury.
Old Master’s new look: Met Museum pays €5m after X-ray reveals the original work
09 December 2019In the third multi-million-pound sale this year of a rediscovered Old Master at a provincial French auction house, a late Gothic panel offered at Cortot & Associés of Dijon brought a dramatic competition late last month.
Miracles of Saint Clare lift Old Masters series
09 December 2019Two recently restituted panels by Sienese artist Giovanni di Paolo (c.1399-1482) lifted the latest series of Old Master auctions in London.
Top stories this week – including news of another antiques show being launched by the BBC
08 December 2019The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of the launch of a day-time TV show called 'The Bidding Room' hosted by Nigel Havers and featuring art and antiques dealers.
Jack Butler Yeats dominates auction of Ernie O'Malley collection in Dublin
02 December 2019One of the highest-ever totals for an art auction in Ireland was set last week when the sale of the Ernie O'Malley collection held by Dublin saleroom Whyte's in association with Christie's raised a premium-inclusive total of €5.42m (£4.65m).
Suprematism tops solid ‘Londongrad’ sales
02 December 2019London’s Russian week of auctions put in a consistent performance last week with the sales at four salerooms generating a combined £37.5m with fees. This compared to £39.2m for the equivalent series last year and the £35.8m raised at the June series.
Vilhelm Hammershøi interior scene sets record for a painting sold in Denmark
28 November 2019Copenhagen auction house Bruun Rasmussen has set an auction record for any painting sold in Denmark.
Charlton Heston’s 1673 copy of Macbeth returns to the market at Bonhams’ New York sale
27 November 2019A 17th century copy of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ formerly owned by Charlton Heston (1923-2008) is reappearing at auction only three years after it sold from the actor’s collection.