Fine Art

The Salon du Dessin, France’s annual fair devoted to drawings and works on paper, is an event which regularly brings an international influx of drawing afficionados to the French capital.

Coinciding with the latest Old Master auction series in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, announced the acquisition of Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy.

A preparatory drawing for a famous painting of Napoleon Bonaparte that is in the Palace of Versailles is to go under the hammer.

Fantastically detailed boxwood sculpture can be traced to the couple who commissioned the work

High selling rates, prices beating estimates and decent auction totals suggest the market is in a good place

One of the highlights of a sale of Old Master works held by Tajan (26/21/14% buyer’s premium) was a pastel self-portrait by the 18th century French portrait painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749-1803).

Extensive contents of Cumbrian castle take three days to sell in North Yorkshire auction

A newly discovered prime period work by Indian Modernist Akbar Padamsee (1928-2020) comes for sale at Roland Auctions in New York state on March 28.

Stuart Lochhead, the London specialist in European sculpture, sells big and fast at TEFAF Maastricht.

A handful of Continental pictures representing different strands of 19th century art, including Romantic, Realist, academic and Grand Tour traditions, were among the highlights at Chiswick Auctions’ (26% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Old Masters and 19th century art.

According to an article in The Times ahead of the estate sale of the paper’s former theatre, film and art critic John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), the west London flat where he lived was crammed not only with artworks but also 20,000 books.