Fine Art

A gold and enamel Dent pocket watch given by Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, to the Italian opera singer Giuseppina Grassini surfaced for sale at an auction in Austria

Gladys Hynes (1888-1958), an overlooked Irish-British artist, pacifist, feminist and Irish Republican, will be the subject of a forthcoming book by Jennifer FitzGerald and Sean Mark and I to be published by Yale University Press in 2026.

Focus on two flower paintings created in Kent by different artists but offered at the same local saleroom

Born in London, artist Tom Roberts (1856-1931) became famous on the other side of the world painting the people and landscape of Australia.

Georges Van Cauwenbergh is the director of Artimo Fine Arts Gallery, in the renowned Sablon antiques district of Brussels.

Works painted by the man behind famous comic characters are sold at auction alongside those he acquired

Elaborate cruet frames from the pre-revolutionary period stand out in a traditional sale selection

Lost from view for a century, a three-figure bronze group by the sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) made an auction appearance in Orléans on February 16.

As well as eight books and manuscripts by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) at Christie’s sale of the Barry Humphries collection – plus one photo of the illustrator and author too – the auction included a rare self-portrait.

Famed for his range of characters, Barry Humphries was also a bibliophile of great taste

Scripts, photographs, posters and printed sheet music reflect what has become a popular collecting market