Fine Art

FIAC, the Foire Internationale D’Art Contemporain, is Paris’ long-running annual fair devoted to Contemporary Art, staged every autumn.

Over six days, collectors and institutions gathered virtually for TEFAF Online 2021 to peruse the high-end offerings of more than 250 international galleries.

John Rolfe from Wotton Auction Rooms had been asked to undertake a valuation for probate in a bungalow near Salisbury when he made an intriguing discovery.

Post-war and Contemporary art is increasingly boosting revenue at regional salerooms

An auction record for John Aldridge (1905-83) was set at Lacy Scott & Knight (22.5% buyer’s premium) when a crisply painted still-life drew the attention of six phone bidders.

The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) presents some notable legal issues

A drawing from Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s (1696-1770) Punchinello series is among the highlights of the contents of Weston Hall in Northamptonshire.

Edinburgh-made clocks that predate 1700 are rare.

Following two years of enforced online activity only, art fair makes its long-awaited return

Dynamic and gestural, this vast 5ft 6in x 11ft 3in (1.67 x 3.45m) oil on canvas, below, was painted by Gillian Ayres (1930-2018) during the 1980s.

Post-lockdown fairs in New York, London and Hong Kong show increase in sales

Numerous international bidders set their sights on a tondo by Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638).

Born in 1926 as Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, the French artist Jacques Villeglé has had a long and varied career.

Modern British artist Laura Knight’s lesser-known landscape works still form a significant body of work

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

A small flurry of recent good prices for Australian artist Herbert Ivan Babbage (1875-1916) continued at David Lay (18% buyer’s premium) in Penzance, Cornwall.

King’s Cross on an ordinary, busy afternoon in March is the subject of this 1998 work by the late Leon Kossoff (1926-2019).

An eclectic mixture of works from the vast collection of the multi-talented German artist Charles Crodel formed a substantial part of a Hamburg auction.

Ian Grutchfield is venue director of Hadleigh Old School, a new art space in Suffolk.