Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
They said what!? The new owner of Sotheby’s weighs in and more quotes from the art and antiques market
23 June 2019How to put into words the experience of buying Sotheby’s, selling Leonard Cohen’s love letters or blocking a huge, grotesque crab from export? A few art and antiques world experts had a go – find out what they said with our quotes of the week.
Six places to see and buy art in London this weekend including Summer Olympia and Sorolla at the National Gallery
21 June 2019In the closing weeks of June, London is packed with commercial shows, museum exhibitions and art fairs.
Historic US flags including a Civil War black regimental banner star at auction
19 June 2019Two historic US flags, one a black regimental banner from the Civil War and the other from the D-Day invasions, were knocked down for six-figure sums last week.
Organiser IACF expands with Peterborough antiques fair purchase
17 June 2019The International Antiques & Collectors Fair (IACF) has added the Peterborough Festival of Antiques to its extensive portfolio.
Footfall rises and sales top £3m for ABA’s Rare Book Fair in Battersea
17 June 2019Visitors to the ABA’s 'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair' spent more than £3m over the events three days.
Chippendale sits comfortably at Masterpiece London
17 June 2019When Sir Robert Burdett (1716-97), 4th Baron Bramcote, undertook the remodelling of his early 18th century home Foremarke Hall from 1759-62, he contracted Thomas Chippendale to refurnish the house. The cabinet maker – one of several employed in the project – was paid around £1000 for the giltwood seating furniture which is thought to have included at least 10 elbow chairs, two window seats and a sofa.
Eroticism explored in Marseille exhibition
17 June 2019Giorgio de Chirico’s 'Nudo dormiente', c.1930, is among the works included in Galerie Alexis Pentcheff’s erotic art exhibition 'Qriosa: Secret Room of Indecent Objects', where it is offered for €200,000.
Bone on Boney at miniature show
17 June 2019An 1817 miniature of Napoleon by British painter Henry Bone (1755-1834) is among the highlights at Ellison Fine Art’s exhibition of portrait miniatures this month.
Rediscovering ‘Good Design’ at Kensington Church Street show
17 June 2019'What Happened to Good Design', a summer selling exhibition at Hill House in Kensington Church Street, was inspired by a show at design shop Heal’s in 1982 of the same name. It offers works from the Arts & Crafts period and beyond.
5 Questions: James Butterwick
17 June 2019James Butterwick is a dealer in Russian art of the early 20th century in London.
Early Worcester plate among ceramics offered at 'A Collectors’ Paradise' in London
17 June 2019A rare early Worcester plate, c.1752, painted in Chinese famille verte style is offered by dealer Robyn Robb at 'A Collectors’ Paradise', the annual group selling show of pottery and porcelain in St James’s. Offered for £9500, it features a bird perched on a flowering prunus tree.
Adrian Heath works on paper go on show at London gallery
17 June 2019This abstract oil on paper is among the works on paper by the modern British painter Adrian Heath (1920-92) currently on show at St James’s gallery Alan Wheatley Art.
They said what!? The week in quotes from he art and antiques market including the call for more catalogue raisonnés
16 June 2019Just how important is BADA? And what is the most famous weapon in art history? Find out what the art and antiques trade had to say on these questions with our weekly quotes roundup.
Six places to see and buy art in London this weekend and beyond including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
14 June 2019Chelsea and Mayfair are two major centres for the art trade, particularly in the summer when events like Masterpiece and London Art Week (respectively) arrive.
Getty museum buys Stoss crucifix and Joseph Wright of Derby painting
11 June 2019The J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has emerged as the buyer of two major works: Corpus Christi, a small, 15th century wooden sculpture by Veit Stoss, and Two Boys with a Bladder (1769-70), a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Windsor House Antiques sells stock in Cambridge Auction
11 June 2019Kevin Smith, owner of Windsor House Antiques, has consigned items of excess stock from the business to Cheffins Fine Art for its sale later this month.
Connect art fair to join the summer season in 2020
10 June 2019Connect – The Independent Art Fair, which debuted at London’s Mall Galleries in January, has added a June event to the 2020 calendar.
Olympia summer fair caters for decorative buyers and collectors
10 June 2019French commode forms good example of selling strategy at long-standing London event
Welsh furniture dealer offers cupboard at festival
10 June 2019Tim Bowen Antiques brings this Welsh oak cwpwrdd bara caws (bread and cheese cupboard) to the midsummer Carmarthenshire event Midsummer Cahoots at the Hall (June 22-30).
Artists as celebs: debut sculpture show plays a fame game
10 June 2019When Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), leading artist of the French Romantic school, died in 1863, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts commissioned a bust to commemorate the painter and embody his genius.