Has ‘Baghdad Bounce’ helped sales to the crest of a mini wave?

JUNE is very much the traditional month for London’s high season in the art market. However, in the middle of May we had a taster of the frenzied auction activity usually associated with that month, a mini tsunami of high-flying sales with a clutch of dramatic and record-breaking prices.

The week beginning May 12 saw the main spring sales of antiquities yield two spectacular prices. On …

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