Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
‘Informal and youthful’: candlelit painting by Joseph Wright placed under temporary export bar
05 May 2018An early painting by British artist Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match its £7.46m asking price.
Selling like hotcakes: Bidders at Las Vegas auction will have a shot at slices from five different royal wedding cakes this summer
04 May 2018Five pieces of royal wedding cake are set to go under the hammer in Las Vegas this summer.
Thousands of artefacts smuggled into the US returned to Iraq
04 May 2018Nearly 4000 artefacts smuggled into the US for shipment to the arts-and-crafts retailer Hobby Lobby were returned to Iraq this week.
Hospital art collection wins £8000 to transform ward with works from the London Original Print Fair
03 May 2018Imperial Health Charity was awarded £8000 to add to its collection at the London Original Print Fair last night.
US book fairs from New York to California
03 May 2018The 'California International Antiquarian Book Fair' and the 'New York International Antiquarian Book Fair' give dealers the chance to access the US east coast and west coast markets within the first few months of the year.
Work of celebrated local sculptor Lynn Chadwick to star in Gloucestershire auction
02 May 2018A Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) bronze from a local collection is among the lots expected to lead Gloucestershire auction.
Marina Abramović comes to Masterpiece London in alabaster portraits
01 May 2018Serbian artist Marina Abramović (b.1946) is famed for her unpredictable, avant-garde performance art but this summer she comes to Masterpiece London set in stone.
Cambridge auctioneer negotiates return of artefact to Bolivian government
30 April 2018A Cambridge auctioneer has negotiated the return of a pre-Columbian artefact to the Bolivian government.
Online Parisian vintage furniture platform launches in UK
30 April 2018A French online marketplace for vintage furniture and home decorating items has launched a UK website.
Robert Young holds exhibition as primitive influence on modern boosts folk art
30 April 2018Recent exhibitions at London institutions such as the Modigliani show at Tate Modern may well have contributed to rising interest in folk art.
Question time with Jeremy Green
30 April 2018Jeremy Green of The Canon Gallery next stands at The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair. He also exhibits at the BADA and LAPADA fairs.
Petworth fair bigger than ever
30 April 2018Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair is bigger than ever this year as it returns for its fourth staging.
Traders believe antiques centre thefts may be linked
30 April 2018The theft of a piece of pottery from an antiques centre in Hampshire has been met with responses from other shop and centre owners reporting similar occurrences.
Austin/Desmond shows works of Chilean artists Mario Fonseca and Mauricio Valenzuela
30 April 2018An exhibition on two artists active during the Chilean dictatorship of General Pinochet opens at Austin/Desmond this month.
Kyffin centenary shows are coming thick and fast
30 April 2018The paintings of Welsh landscape artist Kyffin Williams (1918-2006) are much in evidence in this, the year of his centenary, and nowhere so much as in his native land.
UK first for Hayter artworks
30 April 2018Crane Kalman’s exhibition of paintings by the Modern British artist Stanley William Hayter (1901-88) unites a number of paintings never seen in the UK before.
They said what?! The week (23-29 April 2018) in quotes from the art and antiques world
29 April 2018This week the trade talked about a couple of exceptionally high asking prices. Also, new money laundering regulation was regarded as a "disproportionate burden" and the collecting tastes of an American football star were revealed following a theft.
‘The map that changed the world’ offered at London gallery for £100,000
28 April 2018William Smith’s 1815 map of England and Wales represents a milestone in geological history and a pivotal moment in its creator’s colourful life.
First edition of Karl Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’ available to the masses – for £100,000
26 April 2018What would Karl Marx (1818-83) have made of the fact that Das Kapital, his foundational text on capitalism, is on the market for a six-figure price?
Potted history: Early Lucie Rie tea set offered in London ceramics exhibition
25 April 2018An early tea set by Lucie Rie is among the works on offer at Erskine, Hall & Coe’s exhibition British Ceramics, which opens tomorrow.