2024

Oxford’s Legge Carpets & Textiles is hosting a retrospective exhibition, which is celebration of Christopher Legge’s five decades in the business.

With estimates from £100, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a remarkable cache of Chinese works of art coming for sale in London this month.

Philip Hewat-Jaboor (1953-2022) was the chairman of Masterpiece Art Fair and amassed a significant antiquities collection at his Jersey home.

A locket purportedly containing a lock of Napoleon’s hair was offered at Gorringe’s in Lewes on October 8.

The Tribal Art Fair (TAF) is returning to De Duif in Amsterdam from October 24 to 27. Twenty ethnographic dealers will be exhibiting at the 22nd edition of the fair.

Following an 18-month conservation and research project at the Yale Center for British Art, an enigmatic double portrait that drew a dramatic competition at auction in 2021 is going on display at its new permanent home of Compton Verney.

Auction house Fellows will offer the collection from Joseph Bonnar Jewellers, following the retirement of its proprietor.

A painting acquired at a regional auction has been identified as a rediscovered work by the Canadian painter Helen McNicoll (1879–1915) and valued at £300,000 on the TV show ‘Fake or Fortune?’

Two studies by Orientalist artists offered with attractive estimates catch the eye of bidders at auctions in Dorset and Surrey

Christmas came early for one Louis Wain vendor as drawing of cats shopping for turkey fetched a five-figure sum in Surrey sale

The latest sale at Aces Gallery in Stamford, Connecticut was topped by the multi-estimate performance of a rediscovered allegorical painting by Venetian artist Paris Bordone (c.1500-71).

A Frankie Dettori bronze made to mark the jockey’s retirement from racing has been stolen from Haynes Fine Art in Pimlico Road, London.

In storage for a century, a remarkable cache of Chinese works of art comes for sale in London this month.

The 19th edition of Master Drawings New York is expected to feature more than 20 exhibitors from New York, London, Paris, Madrid and Brussels

The Rolex GMT-Master worn by the sixth man to walk on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, is being offered at a sale in the US

With estimates from £350, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news that the incoming ban on antique scrimshaw and narwhal tusk trade has been delayed.

Four Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) family portraits acquired under the Acceptance in Lieu scheme have gone go on public display for the first time.

A collection of watercolours amassed by Iolo Williams (1890-1962) which had been kept under a bed for over half a century raised a total of £89,150 at Olympia Auctions on October 2.