Latest News Articles by Laura Chesters
A reshuffle at the top of Christie’s Europe plus other jobs news across the art and antiques sector
31 March 2022The latest Movers & Shakers across auction houses.
Swedish firm Auctionet buys Lawrences of Crewkerne
30 March 2022Auctionet, the online auction platform, has bought Lawrences Auctioneers in Somerset but the team at the Crewkerne firm will remain in place.
Emissions in the spotlight at Art Business Conference
29 March 2022How can the art and antiques sector be more sustainable? Reducing the carbon emissions of the trade is tough in light of the return of art fairs around the world.
Chardin strawberries refresh auction record
28 March 2022An auction record has been set for the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) with the sale of 'Le panier de fraises des bois' (The Basket of Wild Strawberries).
Bainbridge to hang up his gavel after four decades
28 March 2022After 43 years running his saleroom in west London, Peter Bainbridge is retiring this summer.
5 Questions: mid-century furniture dealer Stuart Murray
28 March 2022Stuart Murray is from Retrovintage, specialist in British and Scandinavian design-led furniture of the mid 20th-century, from the 1950s-70s, with a “particular love for pieces by the preeminent Danish designers of this period”.
Cotswolds Curated makes debut
28 March 2022Exhibitions event features nine dealers from Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire
International buyers ready for Birmingham
28 March 2022Now UK restrictions on international travellers have eased, the organisers of The Art & Antiques for Everyone (AAfE) fair at the NEC Birmingham are hoping for a return of buyers from further afield.
Public appeal for £25,000 to buy Hogarth’s Horace Walpole portrait for Strawberry Hill museum
24 March 2022The Strawberry Hill Trust is appealing for public donations to buy a painting by William Hogarth (1697-1784) of Horace Walpole.
Art dealer Ivor Braka hits back at artist resale rights groups' legal action against him
22 March 2022Art dealer Ivor Braka has spoken out over legal action being taken against him jointly by The Artists’ Collecting Society (ACS) and the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS).
CINOA: ‘The wave after wave of damaging legislation has to stop’
21 March 2022The art market is being unfairly targeted with restrictions and regulations over stolen cultural property according to its most senior trade federation.
Museum buys PAN magazine prints
21 March 2022California dealership Denenberg Fine Arts has sold a full set of 80 prints from the Jugendstil magazine PAN to Chicago’s Driehaus Museum.
Rediscovered £5m Canova was garden statuary sale bargain
21 March 2022A long lost Antonio Canova (1757-1822) sculpture that previously sold for around £4400 in a garden statuary auction in 2002 is to be offered at Christie’s on July 7 with an estimate of £5m-8m.
£50m price tag as Omai receives export bar
21 March 2022Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (1723-92) portrait of Pacific Islander Omai has been given a £50m price tag and barred from export for a third time.
Police plea for return of stolen medals from Colchester museum
19 March 2022Essex Police and Hollytrees Museum in Colchester are hoping to recover five 19th century medals stolen in a burglary earlier this month.
Long lost Canova sculpture bought at a garden auction for less than £5000 to be offered for £5m-8m at Christie's
18 March 2022A long lost Antonio Canova (1757-1822) sculpture that previously sold for around £4400 in a garden statuary auction in 2002 is to be offered at Christie’s on July 7 with an estimate of £5m-8m.
The Art Business Conference programme announced
17 March 2022The Art Business Conference, returning to London on March 25, has released its event programme.
Early June date set for Ivory Act to be enforced
17 March 2022The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced the Ivory Act 2018 will be enforced on June 6.
New hires and promotions across auction houses and dealerships in the UK and overseas
16 March 2022The latest jobs news in the art and antiques sector.
Reynolds' portrait of Omai given £50m price tag and barred from export for a third time
15 March 2022A buyer in the UK is sought to pay £50m for Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (1723-92) portrait of Pacific Islander Omai.