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.

Vilhelm Hammershøi’s White Doors

Hammershøi artwork returns home to Denmark after £1.2m Copenhagen museum buy

09 June 2017

Ordrupgaard Museum in Copenhagen has purchased Vilhelm Hammershøi’s 'White Doors' for the hammer price of £1.2m, well above its £400,000-600,000 estimate.

Sunbathers by Keith Vaughan

Modern British art in demand in Salisbury as Keith Vaughan’s ‘Sunbathers’ is bid to £120,000

07 June 2017

Works by Keith Vaughan, John Minton, Christopher Wood and Paul Nash drew demand at a Woolley & Wallis auction featuring a prominent collection of 20th century British art.

Edouard Joseph Dantan painting

Classical French salon painting rediscovered in Suffolk house offered at auction

07 June 2017

A major work by French Academy painter Edouard Joseph Dantan (1846-97) apparently unseen in public for over a century has emerged at an auction in Colchester.

Louis XVI commode

Lady Spencer’s collection to be sold at Christie’s auction

06 June 2017

Princess Diana’s stepmother, Chatelaine of Althorp, Dame Barbara Cartland’s daughter, or Acid Raine. The late Countess Spencer had a number of labels and, according to the Telegraph, she “seldom left anyone indifferent”.

Parmigianino

Parmigianino sketch from home town of Parma to be offered at Bonhams auction

05 June 2017

A rediscovered sketch by Italian Renaissance master Parmigianino is to be offered at Bonhams in July.

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Dora Carrington’s saleroom flowering as still-life takes £72,000 at Mallams

05 June 2017

Estimated at £15,000-25,000, a still-life by Dora Carrington (1893-1932) sold for £72,000 at Mallams in Oxford on May 26.

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Sussex buyer follows the plough

05 June 2017

A painting by equine artist Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869-1958) sold for four times its top guide at Bellmans (20% buyer’s premium).

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Previews: £30,000 plus

05 June 2017

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

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Mayfair gallery exhibition shows that Rodin sculpture is readily available to start a collection

05 June 2017

On the centenary of Auguste Rodin’s (1840-1917) death the French sculptor is still much in evidence.

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Pop goes the easel for Eduardo Paolozzi lots

05 June 2017

A selection of vibrant prints, artist’s proofs and portrait studies by the 20th century artist Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) is up for sale in County Durham.

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Bidders on hunt for field sports pictures

05 June 2017

“In the 19th century, before football came along, it was all about field sports,” says Iain Byatt-Smith of Bonhams’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) Scottish picture department.

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Daubigny goes with the flow

05 June 2017

A Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-78) painting that had been in the same private collection since 1963 topped Nesbits’ (19% buyer’s premium) sale in Portsmouth on May 17.

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Castle looms over local Ludlow show

05 June 2017

A view of Ludlow Castle is one of the works included in Miles Wynn Cato’s ongoing exhibition.

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My lord: £200,000 for Siena scene

05 June 2017

This depiction of a 16th century bullfight in Siena’s Piazza del Campo starred in Christie’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) sale of the collection of the late Lord Weidenfeld.

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Photo sales develop in Paris

05 June 2017

A clutch of photograph sales is coming up this month in Paris. Among them is Millon and Baron Ribeyre’s two-day auction on June 13 and 16.

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Sir Peter Lely drawing surfaces in Nantes

05 June 2017

This drawing of a young girl by the Dutch-born artist Sir Peter Lely (1618-80), who was official portrait painter to the English court, features in a sale at Ivoire Nantes on June 13.

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Saint's son portrait bust heads Basel sale

05 June 2017

Bailly et Beuret’s next auction series takes place in the Swiss city on June 21. On offer are over 460 lots divided between four catalogues and covering works from the 14th to 19th centuries, Swiss and contemporary art.

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Gallery gains Barns-Graham estate artworks

05 June 2017

More than 35 works by the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham populate Waterhouse & Dodd’s retrospective from June 7-July 8.

Fanny Cornforth as Lady Lilith

Rossetti’s first mistress as ‘Lady Lilith’ to be auctioned at Sotheby’s

02 June 2017

A painting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s first mistress is to be offered at Sotheby’s this summer.

Michele Marieschi at Sothebys

Old Master view of Venice to appear at Sotheby’s following restitution agreement

01 June 2017

A view of Venice by Michele Marieschi (1710-44) which was seized by the Nazis in 1940 will be offered at Sotheby’s this summer following an agreement over a longstanding restitution claim.

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