Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
London dealer showcases powerful works by Frank Avray Wilson
20 August 2018London dealer showcases powerful works of an artist fascinated by the human condition
5 Questions: William Martindale
20 August 2018William Martindale holds an exhibition with textile specialist Jacqueline Simcox at Stoppenbach and Delestre during Asian Art in London (November 1-10).
Welsh artist Wilf Roberts drives demand
20 August 2018In his later years, Welsh painter Wilf Roberts spent time going on drives, his wife Sue at the wheel, out to the Anglesey countryside. He would set off with pencils or watercolours to sketch landscapes while she waited for him in the car, reading.
Note shows light-hearted Laura Knight
20 August 2018A cartoon by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) offers a rare and light-hearted look at her married life.
They said what!? The week (August 13-19) in quotes from the art and antiques market
19 August 2018“At that moment, the urge to buy some of his work was born…” In this edition of our weekly roundup of art and antiques quotes, a collector recalls his beginnings as he prepares to sell. Also, experts give their opinions on modern British paintings and an important Chinese vase comes to auction.
Large single-owner collection of modern Moorcroft pottery goes under the hammer in Suffolk
18 August 2018More than 200 lots of Moorcroft pottery, many of them sourced from a single-owner collection, are up for sale at the Suffolk auction house Lacy Scott & Knight next month.
John Spencer-Churchill’s eyewitness painting of Dunkirk evacuation comes to British Art Fair – VIDEO
16 August 2018John Spencer-Churchill’s (1909-92) depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk is one of the highlights at the British Art Fair.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh cabinet made for Glasgow tea room entrepreneur makes £11,000
16 August 2018A cabinet made by Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) for a Victorian tea room businesswoman has sold for £11,000 at Willingham Auctions in Cambridge.
London as the Duke of Wellington knew it: Museum of London acquires huge panorama from Sotheby’s
14 August 2018A large 19th century panorama of London, completed towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, has entered the Museum of London’s permanent collection after the institution acquired it at a recent Sotheby’s auction.
A babe, a beast and Edgar Rice Burroughs bring six-figure result for Frazetta painting at US auction
14 August 2018Frank Frazetta’s painting Escape on Venus does not feature any of the pirates, zombies or ugly communists that appear in the story it accompanies. Still, the picture easily attracted enough attention to make it the top lot at a recent Heritage Auctions sale.
Hosts of BBC’s Fake or Fortune? left ‘genuinely shocked’ as supposed William Nicholson painting is dismissed by expert
13 August 2018Art dealer Philip Mould and journalist Fiona Bruce of BBC’s ‘Fake or Fortune?’ returned to screens last night, arguing that a still-life painting was the work of Modern British artist William Nicholson (1872-1949).
Who was Mondo? Japanese art dealer discovers unusual dragon sea king netsuke
13 August 2018Dealer Rosemary Bandini, who specialises in Japanese netsuke, calls a figure that she sold recently one of her most frustrating yet intriguing discoveries to date.
A travelling passport for Martinware birds
13 August 2018Gloucestershire-based British art pottery dealer Alison Davey of AD Antiques has created a series of ‘passports’ for Martin Brothers’ birds.
BADA boutique event dropped for October
13 August 2018BADA Collection, the boutique fair which was launched by the British Antiques Dealers’ Association last year at the Lanesborough hotel, has been put ‘on hold’ for this autumn.
Mug shows trouble at the mill in 1878
13 August 2018Riots broke out in Bury and Blackburn in May 1878 as cotton mill workers protested their low wages. The initially peaceful action escalated as employees attacked the factory and local constabulary, eventually looting and destroying the mill owner’s house.
5 Questions: Francesca Fiumano of Fiumano Clase
13 August 2018London gallery Fiumano Clase formed in 2017 when dealers Francesca Fiumano and Andrés Clase merged their respective contemporary art dealerships. Its next exhibition, BOOM, is a solo show of works by Roger Holtom. Here, we talk to Fiumano.
Fair lays down tribal landmarks
13 August 2018Anniversary of Cook voyage and a book 15 years in the making underpin London event...
Mayfair gallery keeps it simple with Deco desks
13 August 2018Simplicity and geometry are key to the works of Eugène Printz, one of the Parisian practitioners of Art Deco design.
Modern business model for 1793 Gallery
13 August 2018Kate Moss – or at least an arresting image of her by Los Angeles street artist Mr Brainwash – is coming to a Cotswolds exhibition to launch 1793 Gallery.
They said what?! The week (August 6-12) in quotes from the art and antiques market
12 August 2018Eclectic collections, sinister stories and high-value lots all star in this edition of our art and antiques market quotes roundup.