2025

The latest in the new 'Fake or Fortune?' series featured a work possibly by Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947).

Tennants’ latest picture sale in Leyburn featured a group of 26 British Impressionist paintings relating to the artistic communities at Staithes and Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. They raised a hammer total of £32,180.

Sworders’ London gallery at 15 Cecil Court is to host its first selling show this month.

Two works catalogued as ‘circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)’ caught the attention at a recent sale at Keys (25% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham, one creeping over estimate but the other smashing it spectacularly.

With estimates from £300, 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 the controversial sale of an ancient Egyptian cosmetic vessel made in the form of a grasshopper

The latest art market report by ArtTactic revealed that global auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips fell by 6.2% for the first half of 2025.

The latest Movers & Shakers including at auction houses Woolley & Wallis, Bonhams and 1818 Auctioneers.

A collection of relics linked to the historical Buddha will now go on public display in India.

A dozen years after it was last sold in England, a portrait of Sir James Stirling (1791-1865), the first governor of Western Australia, returned to auction Down Under earlier this month.

Wiltshire Police are appealing for information after gold and silver jewellery was targeted at Old Bank Antiques in Royal Wootton Bassett.

Two contrasting works by William De Morgan (1839-1917) – a sketchbook and a triple-lustre charger – were offered for sale by Dominic Winter in consecutive sales this month.

Following the sale of a rare 1920s Louis Vuitton Explorer trunk for a hammer price of £130,000 at John Nicholson’s on June 11, a second example emerged at the Surrey auction house this month.

The highest auction price for Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) for eight years came at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) latest British, European & Sporting Art sale.

A London auction house is launching a new day honouring collectors

The latest episode of Fake or Fortune? featured two separate artworks belonging to different owners purporting to be by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).

Three Bloomsbury Group paintings, two by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) and one by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), lit up the inaugural Modern Art sale at Duggleby Stephenson of York (25% buyer’s premium).

A group of seven first edition hardback copies of the Harry Potter books, all signed by author JK Rowling, were hammered down at $130,000/£97,500 (or $162,500 including premium) by Heritage Auctions.

An ancient Egyptian cosmetic vessel made in the form of a grasshopper or cicada sold for £340,000 at Apollo Art Auctions in London on July 27.

A pair of portraits by Joshua Johnson (c.1763-c.1825), one of the earliest black professional painters in the United States, is coming to auction this summer.