2025

Four monumentally sized paintings from the Soviet school emerged at auction in Gloucestershire.

Modern names were among the major sellers at the recent staging of Frieze Los Angeles.

A ‘never-before-seen’ painting by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) drew prolonged competition at Cheffins’ latest sale in Cambridge.

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art is currently hosting an exhibition of drawings and watercolours by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) until March 7.

A collection of works owned by the late BBC Antiques Roadshow expert and former director at Christie’s, Hugo Morley-Fletcher (1940-2022), has been consigned to Roseberys.

A Flemish Old Master lost to scholars for almost a century has emerged from a private source at Woolley & Wallis.

This rare English mineral water bottle sold for £19,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Griffin’s Auctioneers in Warwick on February 25.

A draft of a composition by Edward Elgar has been acquired by the British Library in a deal organised through Christie’s.

An autograph letter from Bonnie Prince Charlie was among a group of Jacobite relics discovered among a wide array of antiques during a Georgian townhouse clearance.

Today it’s one of the world’s most populous and modernised cities but the Shanghai Albert ‘Bert’ Aiers would have found in the early 1900s would have been very different indeed.

A gold stater of king Caratacus (15-54AD) that broke the record for a single Iron Age coin at auction in 2020 is returning to auction on March 12.

With estimates from £1000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Henry Orlik (b.1947) is a celebrated Surrealist who's enjoying a fevered revival, but the cheering comeback is tarnished by a raft of missing work.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an auction of over 400 lots from Holkham Hall in Norfolk.

The archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 gifted his suitcase to his colleague and friend John Healey in 1939 and will now be auctioned at Elstob

It’s not often that you find a Concorde cockpit, a Victorian pharmacy and a butcher’s shop appearing at the same sale.

Paris auction house Tajan is to sell a previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869).

Located in the heart of the Paris Left Bank, Galerie Wittmann Antiquités will exhibit works from Antiquity to the early 20th century

Two rare pieces of 17th century Newcastle silver come for sale in London on February 26.

“Hello Possums”. Bidders were greeted by Dame Edna Everage’s imitable phrase as Christie’s auctioneer Piers Boothman took to the rostrum to offer the extraordinary collection of the late Barry Humphries (1934-2023).