Latest News Articles by Roland Arkell
Bone models story fleshed out: by prisoners of war or craftsmen?
26 May 2025Some ‘prisoner of war’ productions are now thought to have been made by skilled craftsmen
Numbers add up to good result for revolutionary mathematical book
26 May 2025Important mathematical work by young German genius Gauss makes a rare appearance at auction
Teaset design by Vanessa Bell fits the bill in Cornwall
26 May 2025Vanessa Bell submitted two designs for the 1934 Modern Art for the Table exhibition at Harrods.
Japanese art auctions moving out of London leaves a gap for others
19 May 2025While few will welcome the news that Bonhams – the last of the major auction houses to hold regular sales Japanese works of art in London – is moving its department to Paris (ATG No 2690), there will be opportunities for UK salerooms that continue to plough this selective but occasionally fruitful furrow.
Roman statuary sought after in Dublin
19 May 2025Although cautiously catalogued, the Library Collection sale at Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dublin on April 29 included three pieces of Roman statuary that had been in an Irish private collection since around 1940.
Boulton’s belting vases bust estimates in two salerooms
19 May 2025Leading a recent sale at Sheffield Auction Gallery (24% buyer’s premium) was a pair of George III ormolu mounted Derbyshire fluorspar candle vases.
Rediscovered Kangxi bird paintings raise £600,000 total at Roseberys
13 May 2025A group of Kangxi bird paintings from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ sold for a combined £600,000 at Roseberys in south London.
Kentian table takes remarkable six-figure result
12 May 2025A sleepy Kentian table from a home in Connecticut was awoken by a sensational sum in late April.
Pick of the Week: Indian-English bureau flies at auction
12 May 2025Standing 3ft (91cm) high, this miniature rosewood and ivory bureau cabinet illustrates the successful fusion of Indian decoration to English form achieved by artisans working in the port of Vizagapatam in the 18th century.
De Ribera work emerges from rural Swedish shed
12 May 2025Stockholms Auktionsverk believes it has discovered a previously unknown oil by Spanish Baroque artist Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652).
When France gave up Guadeloupe
12 May 2025The British invasions of the island of Guadeloupe during the Seven Years’ War was part of William Pitt’s plan to attack the French wherever they could.
Cuneo covers Second World War German surrender - from a photo
12 May 2025A painting by Terence Cuneo (1907-96) depicting the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath in the Second World War has sold for £60,000 at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).
Toulouse-Lautrec doodles show talent
12 May 2025A Latin to French dictionary that belonged to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was among the highlights a recent sale of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps at Doyle New York (28/27% buyer’s premium).
Spirited performances for books at German auction
12 May 2025ATG takes a look at some stand-out lots sold recently at an auction in Berlin
Rediscovered Nazarene work revealed to be Overbeck
12 May 2025A previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789- 1869) sold for €104,000 (£87,000) as part of the latest Tajan (26% buyer’s premium) Old Master Paintings and Drawings sale.
Key text by Locke takes $120,000
12 May 2025A recent Freeman’s Hindman (28/27% buyer’s premium) sale in Chicago included a first edition of John Locke’s foundational text on civil society and the nature of government 'Two Treatises of Government….'
Our selection of upcoming books and works on paper auction previews
12 May 2025Stand-out lots from Shakespeare to Sendak, Marie-Antoinette to Mary Queen of Scots, Gill to Waugh and Turing to Buffalo Bill