Modern British artist Joan Warburton (1920-1996) is having a moment in the art market.

The height of the summer art season has drawn to a close but there are still plenty of art and antiques exhibitions to view right into August.

Among the museum purchases at TEFAF Maastricht earlier this year was a table sold by a Brighton dealer to Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in a deal that has just been announced.

Two people are appealing for help from the antiques trade and auctioneers after a lost brooch and a theft of rings occurred this month.

A clutch of high-end dealers have signed up to exhibit at the LAPADA Fair in Berkeley Square this autumn, building on momentum started last year.

One of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered was hammered down at $43m (£32m) at Sotheby’s after a 10 minute bidding battle between seven bidders.

Christie’s has reported its best first-half results in five years while Sotheby’s posted its highest ever figures for the same period.

Gregory Ebbs has a reminder for fellow dealers and auction houses: “Always check underneath the seat – you never know what history might be waiting to be found”.

Last month The Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2026 came into force, updating the 2017 rules.

The well-known London antiques centre celebrated its birthday in style.

Thieves broke into The Lalique Museum in the early hours of July 5 and stole 27 items of jewellery valued in the region of €4.5m.

Two 500,000-year-old flint handaxes discovered in Norfolk have been blocked from export in the hope a UK institution can raise the funds to keep them in the country.

New appointments at auction houses Phillips and Catherine Southon

The BBC show presented by art dealer Philip Mould and broadcaster Fiona Bruce will launch the first episode in a new series on Thursday, July 16.

One of a group of seven 16th century tapestries that hung in Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk until they were sold at auction in 1924 has returned home after the National Trust was able to purchase it from an antiques dealer following TEFAF Maastricht last year.