Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
Range of Wedgwood creamware sold at Stair auction
25 November 2019Plenty of affordable Wedgwood from all eras was available in the Stair sale.
Bow blue and white pot from c.1750 exceeds estimate at Starr sale
25 November 2019After their intitial interest in Wedgwood, the Starrs went on to collect other examples of early English porcelain, some of which was keenly pursued in Sotheby’s sale.
Starrs collection boosted by George Owen pieces for Royal Worcester
25 November 2019The Starrs collection at Sotheby’s featured 25 reticulated vases or decorative objects produced by George Owen for Royal Worcester, most them purchased at auction in the early 1980s.
Bow figures from a New York collector
25 November 2019The large collection of predominantly English ceramics offered by Stair Galleries from a New York collector included examples of 18th century porcelain from many of the major English factories.
Bust of leading French statesman by the king’s sculptor fetches £2m in Paris auction
22 November 2019A rare early 17th century bronze bust of a French statesman discovered in a French country house was knocked down at €2.4m (£2.07m) hammer at the Drouot auction centre in Paris this week.
Fine Arts Paris to expand in 2020
15 November 2019The Fine Arts Paris fair opened to the public this week at the Carrousel du Louvre with the announcement of major expansion plans for its 2020 edition.
Asian Art in London prize winners revealed
11 November 2019Last week’s gala party for Asian Art in London, held at Bonhams on November 5, was also the occasion to announce the winners of the event’s two art awards.
From a San Fran apartment
11 November 2019This small-scale wall mirror by Line Vautrin from c.1950 measures approximately 15in (38cm) in diameter.
Parisian panorama
11 November 2019Among several auctions devoted to Old Master and 19th century paintings taking place in Paris this month will be the 66-lot sale held at Sotheby’s on November 19.
Folk art field trip in southern Moravia
11 November 2019Going to the Fields by the Cezch artist Joža Uprka (1861-1940) is one of the potential best-sellers of Bonhams’ sale of 19th century European paintings in New York on November 20.
Ape appeal
11 November 2019This sheet of studies of a monkey in red chalk on paper by the St Petersburg-born artist Alexander Jacovleff (1887-1938) will be offered in Il Ponte’s sale of 19th century paintings and sculpture in Milan on November 21.
Russian icons on offer
11 November 2019A number of Russian icons are included in Crescent City Auction Gallery’s sale on November 16-17 in New Orleans, among them this 19th century Virgin of Kazan.
Collector with an eye for the birds
04 November 2019A sale at Rago Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in its New Jersey rooms offered potential buyers the Andrew Furer and Elle Douglas collection: 27 lots of Martinware (mostly composed of the potters’ iconic Wally Bird creations).
Martinware: Return of Avery’s ʻlost’ menagerie
04 November 2019‘Dream’ Martinware cache from family of factory patron surfaces for sale in Berkshire
Paris fair aims at fine arts revival
04 November 2019The Carrousel du Louvre will be the setting for the 'Fine Arts Paris' fair which opens to the public next week with a five-day run from November 13-17.
Vroom shows a sense of perspective
28 October 2019It was a visit to the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino with his parents that first whetted the 15-year-old Thomas Vroom’s appetite for perspective.
Pistol sets a new standard for French army and navy use
28 October 2019Among the antique European rarities that are included in Milestone’s November 2 autumn firearms sale in Willoughby, Ohio, will be this 1733 French dragoon flintlock pistol of large size with a 12-inch barrel in .70 bore.
Major-name attractions in Paris as works by Artemesia Gentileschi and Jean-Baptiste Corot emerge at auction
28 October 2019Gentileschi and Corot works headline Old Master and 19th century auction at Artcurial.
Pissarro rediscovered and up at Paris auction
28 October 2019On November 22 in Paris auction house Ader will offer a newly rediscovered work by the Impressionist master Camille Pissarro.
Irish silver is the Maine attraction
28 October 2019This Irish silver two-handled footed cup will be included in the three-day, multi-discipline sale taking place at Thomaston Place Auction galleries from November 8-10 at Thomaston, Maine.