Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
Unoccupied house found to be full of French art glass joys
27 February 2023A cache of art glass rediscovered during the contents removal of a house that had been unoccupied for several years came up for auction.
From darkness came light: the Bud Lear collection of historical candlesticks
27 February 2023US collector Bud Lear teamed up with UK metalwork dealer Christopher Bangs to investigate early types of metal candlesticks
Make a bone call when bidding for Chinese jiaguwen
27 February 2023The Shang period (c.1600-1045BC) is the first of China’s many epochs from which written documents survive.
BRAFA: Brussels fair settles successfully into its new home
20 February 2023The 68th edition of the BRAFA Art Fair closed its doors to the public on February 5 with 65,000 visitors having passed through its doors, writes Anne Crane.
Courtesy of Cohen & Cohen: items from renowned UK specialist come to New York auction
20 February 2023Auctions of Chinese export porcelain have regularly featured in the New York schedule in January for many years, running alongside the traditional string of Americana sales and the long-running Winter Show.
Mantel clock is pick of a d’Estaing presidential selection
06 February 2023Clock formed as memorial to Napoleonic general stars among contents of d’Estaing family home
First edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest emerges in Chicago
06 February 2023Included in Potter & Potter’s latest sale of Books and Manuscripts is a rare first edition limited issue of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest.
Bouguereaus double up at US auction
06 February 2023Works by the married artists both feature in Philadelphia saleroom Freeman's
Louvre acquisitions announced for Abu Dhabi and Paris
06 February 2023Main and Middle East branch of the French museum revealed as the buyers of works offered in French auctions
Third slice of Soulages ready to taste at Paris auction
06 February 2023Millon’s March 6 sale in Paris is its third to be given over entirely to the graphic (engraved) work of Pierre Soulages (1919-2022).
Strong early sales at BRAFA as it returns to traditional time slot
02 February 2023Dealers hailed the latest edition of the BRAFA Art Fair as a success with early sales.
Lichtenstein and Warhol with a touch of Hockney
23 January 2023Key artists in the American pop art movement such as Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1929- 87) make big ticket prices.
Shipshape and soup shape prints make Maine attraction
23 January 2023Among the graphic works on offer in Thomaston Place’s Winter Enchantment sale in Maine on February 24-26 are these two prints by Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.
BRAFA preview: Celebrate Art Nouveau in Brussels
16 January 2023The BRAFA fair this year – and several of its exhibitors – has adopted the city’s theme for 2023
US spotlight: Bumper line-up of Old Masters
09 January 2023News of a busy month in New York including major fairs and a bigger auctions schedule
Flower power as Martinware, Amphora and Daum lead auction of single owner collection
09 January 2023Edward and Marilyn Flower embraced a huge variety of collecting enthusiasms.
Bonhams to sell Chinese export porcelain from dealer Cohen & Cohen
09 January 2023On January 24 Bonhams in New York will offer a single owner-sale of more than 150 lots of Chinese export porcelain from the renowned specialist dealer in the field, Cohen & Cohen.
Baroque Old Masters lead group of works from the Fisch Davidson collection
09 January 2023Assembled over three decades, the Fisch Davidson collection on sale at Sotheby’s on January 26 focuses on paintings by Baroque Old Masters.
Old Master and commander offered at Doyle's auction
09 January 2023This portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) will be included in the sale of English and Continental Furniture, Decorative Arts and Old Master Paintings at Doyle in New York on January 25.
Restituted work at Sotheby's revealed as an early Bronzino
09 January 2023The highlight of Sotheby’s January 26 part one Old Masters auction will be this newly discovered and recently restituted portrait of a man with a quill pen and a sheet of paper by Bronzino (1503-72).