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Leaping Man by Elisabeth Frink

Swindon sale benefits from the friends of Frink

14 October 2025

A significant group of Modern British artworks proved a major highlight of a recent auction held by Kidson-Trigg (24% buyer’s premium) in Swindon.

Art Nouveau box

Art Nouveau trinket box is among five lots to watch

13 October 2025

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Edward Bawden's Sunday Times print

Great Bardfield property yields appealing group of modern prints to Sworders sale

13 October 2025

A single owner collection from a house in Great Bardfield, Essex provided a number of good quality prints to Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern and Contemporary art.

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Top stories this week including news of the Winter Olympia fair 2025 edition being cancelled

12 October 2025

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of organiser Clarion Events cancelling the Winter Art & Antique Fair at Olympia

Vortex of the Wave by Maggi Hambling

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a Maggi Hambling wave painting

10 October 2025

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices keeping you on top of the latest market values

John Stubbe portrait

Relic of a Tudor trial turns heads at Wiltshire auction

10 October 2025

Lot 586 at Henry Aldridge’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest two-day sale was one of the more curious lots to appear at auction in recent times.

Alvar Aalto plywood dining suite

Design fans head to Berkeley Square for latest PAD London event

10 October 2025

Design fair PAD London runs from October 14-19 in Berkeley Square this autumn.

Henry VIII crown

Tudor coin hoard discovered in garden during lockdown comes to auction

09 October 2025

A Tudor hoard found by a Hampshire couple while gardening will be sold at auction in Switzerland next month.

The Georgian Group's HQ

Consignment call for charity auction to raise funds for Georgian heritage conservation

09 October 2025

The Georgian Group has teamed up with Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers for a special fundraising auction.

Albert Einstein's violin

Einstein’s violin takes £860,000 at auction

08 October 2025

A violin used by Albert Einstein during his late teens and early adult life was hammered down at £860,000.

Brass dish

Cotswolds design museum launches fundraising appeal to buy Gordon Russell dish

08 October 2025

The Gordon Russell Design Museum in Broadway, Worcestershire is fundraising ahead of an auction.

Girl in her Petticoat by Dod Procter

Major auction record for Dod Procter set at Bonhams

08 October 2025

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) latest sale of works by Modern British women artists in London.

Philip Mould and Fiona Bruce

Two new series commissioned for BBC’s Fake or Fortune?

08 October 2025

BBC Studios has retained the contract to continue producing Fake or Fortune? for another two series.

Seating

Outcry over planned sale of National Gallery benches

07 October 2025

A number of restoration specialists have spoken out about the National Gallery’s plan to sell some of its furniture at auction.

Harry Clarke illustration

Harry Clarke illustrations bring hefty sums in Dublin auction

07 October 2025

Dubin-born Henry Patrick Clarke (1889-1931) was one of Ireland’s leading stained-glass artists and book illustrators.

Molenaer self-portrait

Details of sales to museums from across the globe revealed by TEFAF Maastricht

07 October 2025

A round up of recently announced sales from the TEFAF Maastricht fair earlier this year

A chair used by artist Lucien Freud

Lucian Freud's childhood chair is among five lots to watch this week

06 October 2025

With estimates from £300, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

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Top stories this week including a major bidding battle for an Old Master in Oxfordshire

05 October 2025

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a work catalogued as an ‘Italian Old Master’ making a six-figure sum in Banbury.

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny illustration

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a pair of original illustrations for Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

03 October 2025

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of latest auction prices keeping you up to date with market values

Annie Oakley’s gun

Gun owned by ‘rifle queen’ Annie Oakley set to be targeted by collectors

03 October 2025

A UK gun collector has consigned a target rife owned by legendary Victorian sharpshooter Annie Oakley to auction in East Sussex.