Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
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).
Strong London presence at NY event
09 January 2023An event that started back in 2006 as a casual gallery tour held during the New York Old Masters auctions has grown this year to 25 exhibitors.
Two Turners offered at Christie's Old Master series
09 January 2023Two works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), an early oil on canvas of the Thames and a watercolour of Switzerland, feature in Christie’s Old Masters series in New York.
European items abound in big collection
09 January 2023On January 15-16 Andrew Jones in Los Angeles will offer over 550 lots of paintings, furniture and works of art comprising the collection of Jack and Ellen Phillips of California.
Early delftware serves up wine bottles
09 January 2023More than 80 lots of early English and Dutch delftware are included in the collection of scholar, collector and author Margaret Berwind Schiffer to be offered on January 18 by Pook & Pook in Pennsylvania.
Socialite’s bedroom opened up
19 December 2022Pieces that had decorated Paris home of a famous patron of the arts come to Fontainebleau auction
Single-owner collection offers sizeable showcase of Lérat couple’s ceramics
12 December 2022Jean (1913-92) and Jacqueline (1920- 2009) Lérat were artist ceramicists based in central France.
Rare Colombe goes to the Louvre
12 December 2022Terracotta Virgin and Child joined a handful of other known works after 2010 attribution
Moses sketch marks early Manet work
12 December 2022This youthful work by Edouard Manet (1832-83) was the top-seller in the Modern and Contemporary auction at Tajan (26/21/14% buyer’s premium) in Paris.
Merged Paris fair brings back the crowds
12 December 2022Over 17,000 visitors including representatives from French and foreign museums, major collectors and decorators attended the first staging of the newly merged fair Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale.
Royal Worcester: Two collections offered in Australia in the same month
05 December 2022In collecting terms it is not surprising that a country such as Australia should have a tradition of interest in English ceramics – factories such as Royal Doulton and Moorcroft have a noticeable following.
Auction benefits from constructive thinking
28 November 2022Paris auction Ader (28% buyer’s premium) was busy on the photographic front during Paris Photo.
Timing was picture perfect for Paris photograph auction
28 November 2022Staging a photo collection sale just as a specialist fair opened proved a great choice.
Madonna makes second-highest Bellini sum
21 November 2022A Madonna and Child by the Venetian Renaissance Master Giovanni Bellini (c.1430-1516) and assistant sold in Vienna for a hammer price of €1.13m (£982,610).