Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
Baldus album shows the way
01 November 2021Ivoire Chartres is holding a sale dedicated to photographs in the French city on November 5.
Marx and Lehmann motor to saleroom
01 November 2021The Milestone (20% buyer’s premium) auction held in Cleveland, Ohio, featured just over 700 lots of toys – the majority from one collection.
English oak took root in the US
01 November 2021The opening 320-plus lots of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ next sale, Autumn Majestic, from November 12-14 in Maine, comprise the works from the estate of New York advertising photographer Frank Cowan (1934-2003).
Lalique jewellery takes flight
01 November 2021Naturally inspired creations underline the renowned designer’s range of talents
Join the tribe
27 October 2021Non-European ethnographic art is a one of the new categories at Fine Arts Paris, represented by Patrick and Ondine Mesdagh from Brussels who will be showing a selection of pieces from four continents.
Debussy the composer by artist friend Blanche
27 October 2021A portrait of the composer Claude Debussy painted by the French artist Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942) met with a flurry of phone bids when it came up for sale on October 12 in Paris.
Thirst for knowledge
27 October 2021This Old Master painting by the 18th century Italian landscape artist Andrea Locatelli (1695-1741) will be shown at Fine Arts Paris by L’Horizon Chimérique from Bordeaux.
Follies add serious date weight
27 October 2021This 19th century China Trade painting was a highlight of the sale held by Ivoire Besançon (22% buyer’s premium) in France on October 17.
Panel from a monumental Parisian wallpaper work
27 October 2021Early wallpapers and wall coverings are specialities of Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz.
Fine Arts Paris adds more galleries and specialities
27 October 2021Fine Arts Paris, which last year was held as an online event, is back at the Carrousel du Louvre, its home in 2019.
Munnings leads the Los Angeles field
27 October 2021Equestrian works by the British artist shine as ‘English country house meets Californian chic’
Dollar fits the bill
27 October 2021Among the works that the Old Master picture dealership Galerie de Bayser, a Fine Arts Paris regular, will be showing at the fair is this equestrian portrait by Jean-Léon Gerome (1824-1904) of the famous thoroughbred Dollar.
Godchaux’s animal attraction
27 October 2021Xavier Eeckhout specialises in animalier sculpture and for Fine Arts Paris the Parisian dealer will be focusing the spotlight on the works of Roger Godchaux (1878-1958) an artist whose catalogue raisonné he has just completed.
Stonemasons struck gold in house discovery
18 October 2021Coin hoard dispersed in white-glove auction.
Mirror is Printz charming
18 October 2021An ensemble of furnishings by the French designer/decorator Eugène Printz (1879- 1948) that were created in the 1930s for a villa in Casablanca, Morocco, will feature at Briscadieu Bordeaux in the French city on November 6.
Schwitters in the mix
18 October 2021A number of French auction houses will be holding sales of Modern and Contemporary art to coincide with FIAC, the annual Paris fair devoted to Contemporary art, which takes place this year from October 21-24.
Cuffs that could not hold Houdini
18 October 2021On October 30 in Chicago Potter & Potter is holding the first part of the Ken Klosterman collection of magic-related artefacts.
Breguet astronomical quarter repeating watch
18 October 2021On October 22 Skinner in Massachusetts is holding a sale of watches and timepieces from the estate of David G Newsom.
Sherlock Holmes on the comeback trail
18 October 2021This handwritten page from the manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles will feature at Heritage Auctions.
Super English delftware selection sells stateside
11 October 2021Adam and Eve charger takes top price in collection amassed by American couple