Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
Art Basel Report: Reports agree market declined in 2016 – but whose statistics do we trust?
01 April 2017Hit by a lack of top-end auction consignments, the global art market declined markedly in 2016, according to the latest art market report.
Regional rooms circle in advance of expected CSK exodus
01 April 2017Auctioneers are gearing up to win business and take on staff in the wake of the closure of Christie’s South Kensington later this year.
Chinese authorities begin ivory trade shut down
31 March 2017China is shutting a third of its ivory factories and shops, as it begins to meet the requirements of a formal ban by the end of the year.
Cox London joins Pimlico Road area line-up
30 March 2017Furniture and lighting designer Cox London has joined the line-up of interior designers around Pimlico Road.
Painting by Russian artist Pokhitonov among auction lots from private London club
29 March 2017A private members’ club in London is selling a collection of paintings that once hung on the walls of its grand dining room, drawing room and corridors.
Copy of Churchill and Roosevelt ‘Allies' bench sculpture sold to Lake District hotel
28 March 2017A copy of London tourist favourite, the bronze bench sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt between Old and New Bond Streets, has been sold to a Lake District hotel.
Goya’s bullfighting etchings found in a French chateau come to auction
27 March 2017The collection of 33 'La Tauromaquia' prints, to be offered at Sotheby’s Prints & Multiples sale in London on April 4, carries an estimate of £300,000-500,000.
Warning of cyber fraudsters targeting dealers and auctioneers
27 March 2017An insurance firm has sounded a warning about cyber fraudsters who appear to be targeting dealers and auctioneers with an invoice scam.
Postcards of Cirencester Market Place through the ages come to auction in the Gloucestershire town
25 March 2017Cirencester has welcomed a new marketplace after a £1.3m redevelopment and months of roadworks. But for those feeling nostalgic for what the town centre used to look like, a collection of postcards offered at auction will help the sentimental come to terms with the changes.
Professor Rachel Pownall: TEFAF report’s new author
25 March 2017Since its launch in 2002 the TEFAF Art Market Report has established itself as the art and antiques trade’s key annual barometer of size and trends.
Dr Clare McAndrew: ‘It is very challenging to measure the art market’
25 March 2017It is not often that market economists agree, and so it goes with the TEFAF Art Market Report’s current and previous authors. Economics is, after all, not an exact science and analysing a market as opaque as art and antiques is certainly problematic.
New watchdog sparks red tape fear
25 March 2017Concerns are mounting that a new government money laundering watchdog will lead to further red tape for dealers and auctioneers in the UK.
Details of the shoe buying habits of literary giants Waugh and Tolkien bought at auction by Oxford’s Bodleian Library
24 March 2017The Bodleian Library in Oxford has bought the historic customer ledgers of venerable Oxford shoemaker Ducker & Son.
Bomber Command Memorial maquette swoops in to north London gallery show
22 March 2017A maquette of the Bomber Command Memorial in London will be on sale as part of an exhibition of works by sculptor Philip Jackson.
Art Basel Art Market Report 2017: Auction market weakness boosted dealer sales
22 March 2017The auction market weakened in 2016, as sales of art and antiques via dealers grew, according to the latest art market report.
Rise in red-tape feared ahead of government launch of anti-money laundering watchdog
21 March 2017The art and antiques trade has raised fears that the launch of a new government money laundering watchdog will lead to further red tape for dealers and auctioneers in the UK.
Fabergé treasures donated to V&A from collection of former Wartski chairman
20 March 2017The V&A has been awarded a clutch of Fabergé treasures from the estate of Kenneth Snowman, the well-known collector of works by the Russian jeweller and former chairman of jewellery dealer Wartski.
They said what?! The week (13-19 Mar) in quotes from the art and antiques world
19 March 2017In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week we cover burnt books and re-discovered works.
On a mission to sell this bomber memorial model
18 March 2017HAMPSTEAD’S Catto Gallery includes this maquette of the Bomber Command Memorial (above) in its upcoming exhibition of works by sculptor Philip Jackson.
New faces join rebranded Chiswick firm
18 March 2017London Auctions in Chiswick has hired a handful of new staff and is launching its first specialist sale this month.