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A new fair showcasing avant-garde and modern art, including works by Salvador Dalí, Marc Chagall and Fernand Léger, opens in Madrid next week.

An Alicante jade green vase was the top lot at a single-owner sale of René Lalique glass at Bonhams Knightsbridge. It sold for £35,000 (£43,750 inc 25% buyer’s premium).

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week includes a pair of Sèvres cups and saucers and Egyptian faience shabti figures.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of London gallery Richard Green defending a claim made in the High Court relating to the disclosure of ‘provenance information’.

The art and antiques market gets busy in March with events such as TEFAF Maastricht, the BADA 2019 fair and London’s contemporary art evening auctions, but for art and antiques fans not travelling to London or the Low Countries, there is plenty going on in northern England in the same month.

A thousand of the UK’s public sculptures have been digitally catalogued with 150,000 to follow by the end of next year.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest has announced that it bought the Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) portrait of Princess Mary, daughter of Charles I, that sold for £5m at Christie’s in December.