Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
On your bike for fascinating collection
12 October 2020A collection of bicycles spanning a century from 1892-1982, Tour de France jerseys and other sporting memorabilia will be offered for sale by Ivoire Chartres in the French city on October 17.
Lalique perfume bottle offered at Dallas auction
12 October 2020This green patinated Cyclamen perfume bottle made c.1912 by René Lalique for Coty is part of a private Chicago collection of Lalique scent bottles that feature in Heritage Auctions’ Tiffany, Lalique and Art Glass sale in Dallas, Texas, on October 22.
Emperor Franz Joseph’s bowler hat emerges at Vienna sale
12 October 2020A bowler hat that once belonged to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria will go under the hammer at Dorotheum on October 19 in the sale of imperial court memorabilia and historical objects in Vienna.
Take the Underground to the Thames via a poster auction
12 October 2020This pastoral scene titled 'Where is this bower beside the silver Thames?' features on a poster to promote the London Underground by the well-known French Art Deco artist Jean Dupas.
Arader’s perfect score
05 October 2020The October 10 auction at New York’s Arader Galleries includes the collection of the surgeon Dr Seymour Schwartz (2020) – a map collector Graham Arader considered something of a mentor.
A passion for glass
05 October 2020Over the years, Wolf Horst Röhl, who died in 2005, amassed an impressive collection of 17th and 18th century Dutch and German cut glass.
Flattery for Klabena
05 October 2020On October 31, Quentin in Berlin is holding its 40th auction. One of the most unusual pieces is this 8in (22cm) high satirical porcelain figure, titled Schmeichelei (Flattery). It was modelled in 1909 by the Slovakian artist Eduard Klabena for KPM in Berlin.
Roentgen marks an anniversary
05 October 2020Cologne auction house Lempertz has been trading for 175 years and on November 13 has a special celebratory treat in store for connoisseurs of 18th century furniture.
Variations on a theme
05 October 2020On October 21, Freeman’s in Philadelphia will mark Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday by offering a collection of 12 portrait bronzes of the composer by French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929).
Seeing the doctor
05 October 2020This portrait of doctor Heinrich Wolff, the stadtphysikus (city physician) in 16th century Nuremberg, is one of the highlights in the sale at Wendl in Rudolstadt on October 22-24.
Twelve pieces of Post-War and Contemporary art coming up in autumn 2020
21 September 2020Twelve pieces of Post-War & Contemporary art from upcoming auctions taking place in the UK and overseas.
A taste of the new French season
21 September 2020Launched in 1956, La Biennale des Antiquaires, now an annual event known as La Biennale Paris, is one of the world’s longest-established and best-known art and antiques fairs.
A birthday gift from Chongli goes under the hammer
21 September 2020The highlight of an Asian art auction held at Drouot by Auction Art on September 25 is this 21½in (55cm) high Qianlong lantern-shaped vase famille rose vase and stand.
New York's Asian art auction series aims to keep the show on the road in wake of Covid and tariffs
07 September 2020Although hampered by Covid-19 and the ongoing issues surrounding imports of Chinese works of art, the September series of Asian art auctions in New York appears – like most sales in the US – to be remarkably unscathed by recent geopolitical events.
War club to be brandished in North Yorks
31 August 2020This 4ft (1.2m) long Tongan Aku-Tau ironwood war club will feature in a sale of Militaria and Ethnographica to be held by Tennants in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, on September 4.
Oceanic objects surface in trio of British salerooms
31 August 2020Pictured below are three lots of Oceanic art that proved to be in much demand during UK sales held in August.
World orders: Parcours des Mondes goes ahead
31 August 2020Organisers of the Parcours des Mondes decided to go ahead with this edition instead of heading online – but only after careful deliberation
Lega mask makes appearance in Edinburgh
31 August 2020Included in the African section of the African and Oceanic Art and Antiquities auction to be held by Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on September 16, this 10in (25cm) high Lega mask is from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Tobacco bag at Cowan’s auction conveys special powers of the elk
31 August 2020This beaded hide Sioux Elk Dreamers’ Society tobacco bag is one of the pieces of beadwork from the Robert Jerich collection that is included in Cowan’s September 18 American Indian Art auction in Cincinnati.
Collection offered at auction highlights an engineer’s fascination in native history
31 August 2020A number of single-owner collections feature in Woolley & Wallis of Salisbury’s September 22 Tribal Art and Antiquities auction. These include the Michael G Johnson collection which makes up over 100 lots in the North American section.