Fine Art

Lot 586 at Henry Aldridge’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest two-day sale was one of the more curious lots to appear at auction in recent times.

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) latest sale of works by Modern British women artists in London.

BBC Studios has retained the contract to continue producing Fake or Fortune? for another two series.

Dubin-born Henry Patrick Clarke (1889-1931) was one of Ireland’s leading stained-glass artists and book illustrators.

A round up of recently announced sales from the TEFAF Maastricht fair earlier this year

Christie’s will offer one of only six privately owned Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs as part of its Classic Week of sales in London in December.

A painting of Mary Magdalene by Ambrosius Benson (c.1495-1550) drew dramatic competition at a recent US auction.

A portrait of King Edward VI that sold at a Roseberys auction earlier this year has gone on public display at Hampton Court Palace.

The botanist, artist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) is thought to have been the first woman to have created a photograph and the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.

A Madonna and Child painting, catalogued as by an ‘Italian Old Master’, took an astonishing £685,000 hammer price at an auction in Banbury.

A small group of 20th century woodcuts showing local Sussex scenes were among the pictures bringing demand at the latest Art & Design Post 1880 auction at Gorringe’s (plus 25% buyer’s premium).