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2019
Exhibitors report early sales as TEFAF Maastricht 2019 opens its doors with new vetting policy
15 March 2019TEFAF Maastricht 2019 has opened for its preview event and news of sales is already coming through.
What lots caught bidders’ eyes in the last week? Six auction highlights including a Wedgwood vase, a 1968 The Doors tour poster and Italian marble sculptures
15 March 2019ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week.
TEFAF report reveals art buying trends in China
15 March 2019Sixty-four percent of Chinese art collectors bought Western European modern and contemporary art in the past five years according to a survey conducted for the TEFAF Art Market Report which was presented at the fair as the doors opened for the second preview day.
Unrecorded archive of well-connected Victorian gay rights activist Edward Carpenter makes eight times estimate at auction
15 March 2019A previously undocumented archive of writings by Edward Carpenter, the well-connected socialist poet and gay rights pioneer, sold for a hammer price of £4200, more than eight times its upper estimate, at Bamfords in Derby this month.
Top stories this week – including news of where the Antiques Roadshow will be filmed during summer 2019
15 March 2019The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of the locations and dates for the recording of the next series of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow during summer 2019.
Lyon & Turnbull latest auction house to stop selling rhino horn
15 March 2019Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull will no longer sell antique items made from rhino horn.
George Michael auction at Christie’s led by Damien Hirst’s dove in formaldehyde
14 March 2019Christie’s auction of the George Michael collection in London tonight was led by 'The Incomplete Truth' by Damien Hirst (b.1965), a work from 2006 featuring a dove in a tank of formaldehyde.
Attention turns to Asian art in New York as specialist week of exhibitions and auctions kicks off
14 March 2019The art market focus in the Big Apple at the moment is on Asian works as Manhattan’s galleries and major auction houses stage the latest edition of ‘Asia Week New York’.
Lost Elgar masterpiece found in autograph book is heard for the first time in 100 years as it heads to auction
14 March 2019A rediscovered melody by Sir Edward Elgar will be offered at auction in Lichfield after it was found in an autograph book.
Star Wars action figure prototype comes to auction
14 March 2019A small piece of Star Wars action figure history comes for sale at Vectis Auctions in Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees next month.
The queen of fashion, the queen of hearts, and the queen: Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction features pictures of Kate Moss, Princess Diana and the queen among lots
14 March 2019It is not quite a full house in a game of cards, but Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction has dealt three ‘queens’ alongside works by British artists including David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Dame Lucie Rie, Mary Fedden and Beryl Cook.
David Bowie demo tape for Starman sells for £41,000 at Merseyside auction
13 March 2019A tape thought to contain “possibly the first ever demo version” of David Bowie’s 1972 hit ‘Starman’ drew strong competition at Omega Auctions’ latest sale.
TEFAF and BADA fairs: Final preparations underway as dealers discuss Brexit
13 March 2019As TEFAF Maastricht and BADA fairs get underway, organisers and exhibitors tell ATG that immersion in art and antiques is the perfect antidote to the political crisis unfolding in Westminster.
Bouguereau’s 20ft painting – Masterly example of French Academic painting to be offered at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale
13 March 2019Sotheby’s is to offer what it deems “the most important work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s celebrated career” as part of the Impressionist & Modern art evening sale in New York on May 14.
Irma Stern portrait leads South African politician’s collection of works being offered at Cape Town auction
13 March 2019Two private collections of South African art have yielded works by some of the leading names in the market to Strauss’ sale in Cape Town on March 18.
One of London’s oldest charities to sell contemporary art collection to raise funds
12 March 2019Contemporary art from the collection of one of London’s oldest charities went on view last night ahead of Lyon & Turnbull’s inaugural Modern Made auction this month.
10 highlights from the George Michael collection on offer at Christie’s
12 March 2019The art collection of singer and songwriter George Michael is being offered at Christie’s in a two-part auction this week. The lots will be divided between a 61-lot live sale at King Street in London on March 14 and a further 112 feature in an online timed sale that runs until March 15.
Court claim challenging New York ivory laws reinstated in the US
12 March 2019A US court claim challenging a 2014 New York law banning the sale of antique ivory by the Art and Antique Dealers League of America and the National Art and Antique Dealers Association of America has been reinstated due to amendments made to the case.
What next for Brexit? While we wait, can you spot the 12 Brexit-related images on this Weeping Willow Brexit plate
12 March 2019As we approach a crunch vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, a no-deal result is still a possibility – so too the prospect of an extension to the Article 50 process beyond the March 29 deadline.
Auction house Sotheby’s celebrates 275 years by ringing the New York Stock Exchange opening bell and launching London exhibition
11 March 2019Sotheby’s held its very first auction on March 11, 1744, and today it is celebrating this 275-year milestone with the opening of an exhibition detailing its history in pictures.