Fine Art
Fine art is a staple of the dealing and auctioneering industry, featuring works ranging from Medieval art to traditional Old Masters, and right through to cutting-edge Contemporary art.
While oil paintings represent a large part of the sector, other mediums adopted by artists across the ages include drawings, watercolours, prints and photographs.
ART MARKET: Political historian Peter Mangold's home became a Mod Brit treasure trove
02 January 2018Art assembled by Peter Mangold, the late political historian, led a strong line-up of Modern British pictures at Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury.
Richard Green shows an affordable fifty
02 January 2018Multi-million buys may be out of reach but five-figure quality is on offer at top London gallery Richard Green.
Dealers sell rare portrait of bearded woman to Wellcome Collection
31 December 2017London dealers Agnews and Rafael Valls have jointly sold a 17th century portrait of a woman who suffered from a rare congenital condition to the Wellcome Collection.
Auction record set for Artemesia Gentileschi as painting of St Catherine of Alexandria sells in Paris auction
22 December 2017A 17th century Old Master by Artemesia Gentileschi (1593-1652) depicting St Catherine of Alexandria has set a new auction record for the artist in Paris.
Grosvenor School linocuts add Power to dedicated print sale
22 December 2017A group of Grosvenor School linocuts by Cyril Power (1872-1951) gave a lift to Bonhams’ latest Prints and Multiples sale.
Pick of the Week: Eyewitness view of Dunkirk evacuation
18 December 2017It may be strange and surreal, but John Spencer-Churchill’s (1909-92) landscape panorama of the evacuation of Dunkirk is the only depiction of the event known to have been painted by an eyewitness.
Bronze casts of Auguste Rodin’s ‘The Kiss’ win admirers at auctions in Germany and the US
18 December 2017The highlight of the latest modern art sale held at Nagel in Stuttgart was a small bronze figure of Auguste Rodin’s 'Le Baiser' (The Kiss).
Delacroix sketch sells at £2.6m
18 December 2017Strong competition emerged for an oil sketch for Eugène Delacroix’s 'Liberty Leading the People' at Christie’s in London on December 14.
‘Discoveries’ of the year – Leonardo, Charles V lions
18 December 2017Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi set the highest price ever for an artwork sold at auction when it took $400m ($450m with premium) at Christie’s New York on November 15.
Paris auction reveals another side to the talented Emile Zola
18 December 2017The photographic archive of Emile Zola (1840-1902) was offered by Artcurial (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) on December 4 with over 90% of the 75 lots changing hands.
5 Questions: Helen Sutcliffe of Sutcliffe Galleries
18 December 2017Helen Sutcliffe runs the premises of Sutcliffe Galleries in Harrogate. The family-run business has been trading for more than six decades and specialises in paintings from the 18th century to the present day.
Single-owner Cartier-Bresson collection in the New York picture
18 December 2017The famous photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson are no strangers to salerooms but it is not every day that you find 120 lots being offered from a single-owner collection.
Saucy stonework shows sex sells
18 December 2017Haute Epoque, the French term given to early, largely pre-Renaissance, works of art, especially sculpture, featured in several Parisian sales in the winter high season.
The value of Liberty – sketch for Eugène Delacroix’s famous painting bid to record sum at Christie’s
16 December 2017An oil sketch by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) for his renowned painting ‘Liberty Leading the People’ was knocked down at £2.6m at auction in London this week.
Works from ex-TEFAF President’s collection head to the National Gallery
15 December 2017Four Old Master paintings from the collection of the late president of TEFAF, Willem Baron van Dedem, have been donated to the National Gallery.
Ex-Sotheby’s auctioneer explains why he decided to become a dealer – video
14 December 2017“There are many opportunities outside auction,” says Adrian Biddell, the former Sotheby’s head of 19th century European paintings who has recently launched his own dealership.
Banksy print record set at Forum Auctions in New York
13 December 2017Forum Auctions’ Banksy sale in New York last night set a new record for a Banksy print. Girl with Balloon (2004) set a record when it sold for a mid-estimate $110,000 (£82,400).
Nicholas Poussin’s Holy Family owned by Lucien Bonaparte comes back to the market at Paris auction
13 December 2017A painting by the 17th century French master Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665) that once belonged to Lucien Bonaparte, the younger brother of Napoleon, is a highlight of an Old Master paintings auction being held by Tajan in Paris.
Miner turned vet then art historian comes to Winchester exhibition
13 December 2017In covering art and antiques, it is easy to overlook the role of the collector in among the people who created objects in the first place, and of course the dealers and auctioneers who sell them. But one collector, the late David Brown, is the subject of a show coming up in Winchester.
Tibet in the frame from golf to gore
11 December 2017Wiltshire auction house Henry Aldridge & Son (17.5% buyer’s premium) has established a reputation for Titanic memorabilia thanks to two specialist sales a year. Thanks to a lot sold in the November 11 auction, the Devizes firm also has a handy sideline in early photographs of Tibet.
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