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It was billed as the ‘first ever $100m collection of Old Masters to come to auction’ but the auction of the Saunders collection at Sotheby’s New York last night came in significantly below expectations.

It was a bumper weekend for collectors and dealers of antiquarian books with Firsts and the London Rare & Antiquarian Book Fair both gracing the capital.

The Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD) has urged dealers to work together in the face of rising costs.

A Roman marble thought by its vendors to be a garden statue turned heads at Toovey’s where it sold earlier this month.

A string of works by East Anglian artists, each with their own well-established market, drew notable attention at the latest specialist sale held by Reeman Dansie (25% buyer’s premium).

Christie’s has announced a major highlight for its Old Masters evening sale in London on July 1.

A Military Cross awarded to an officer who served on the Western Front and later played professional football for Tottenham Hotspur has been bought by the club at auction.

A group of eight antiquities have been returned to Peru following an intervention by the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L Bragg Jr.

Modern British Gallery are hosting an online exhibition titled 'Women Only – 60 Pictures Celebrating Women Artists'.

Sotheby’s offered a collection of 30 Fabergé animals from the Castle Howard estate in a timed online sale ending May 16.

With estimates from £3000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Auction house Freeman's Hindman is offering an extensive collection of historic materials relating to US President Abraham Lincoln.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Kentian table from a home in Connecticut being bid to a sensational sum at a recent auction

Hendon was at the forefront of aviation in the early 20th century and many of the pioneering aviators are pictured in an 800-photographic archive being offered at auction next week.

The difficulties at the top end of the Modern and Contemporary art market were very much in evidence at the latest flagship auction series in New York.

Two pictures with natural history subjects drew the strongest competition among the Indian works of art consigned from the collection of the late Francis Golding (1944-2013) to a recent Roseberys’ (26% buyer’s premium) sale.

When three teenagers helped Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd’s roadies to lug their gear into Central Hall, Chatham, on December 1, 1967, they found themselves locked in with the stars.

The attic contents of two historic private country estates is set to be offered at Dreweatts in Newbury.

Flowers have inspired artists for centuries and ahead of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show dealers are tapping into the horticultural theme

A group of Kangxi bird paintings from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ sold for a combined £600,000 at Roseberys in south London.