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A Mannerist bronze after Giambologna brought a surprise €3.2m (£2.7m) at Artcurial on March 27.

Find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week about the Old Master market, Summer Olympia and more.

Eight evocative antique shop signs, symbols of Paris’ ancient streetscapes, are off to the Musée Carnavalet, the city’s museum in the Marais district dedicated to the history of the French capital.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news that former ‘Flog It!’ presenter Paul Martin will launch his programme ‘Curiosity’ next month.

A collection of Marvel comics kept in a bank vault after coming a whisker away from being stolen has sold for £15,200 in total at a Staffordshire saleroom.

A powerful photograph of soldiers in the Vietnam War taken by Sir Don McCullin in the 1960s is among the highlights at the Spring Decorative Antiques and textiles fair next month.

Two market-fresh marble busts of 18th century luminaries by a famous French sculptor with a detailed historic provenance and very attractively pitched estimates were propelled to multi-estimate prices totalling $1.25m at a US auction last week.