News


Categories

News

Latest news from Antiques Trade Gazette, the leading specialist publication for the art and antiques market


Christie's

Christie’s half year auction results recover after tough 2016

19 July 2017

Christie’s first half results show positive signs for the art auction market after a difficult 2016.

WEB police truncheon 18-7-17.jpg

Police 'truncheon' from 1804 coming up at auction is the short arm of the law

18 July 2017

A very early police ‘truncheon’ up at auction on July 25 was more about the short arm of the law than long.

Norman Cornish pub scene

Busy bar scene by Norman Cornish takes £16,000 in Yorkshire auction

18 July 2017

The second highest ever price at auction for ‘pitman painter’ Norman Cornish (1919-2014) was set at the latest sale held at Tennants in Leyburn, Yorkshire.

Giovanna Bertazzoni

Two appointed to co-chairman position in Christie's impressionist and modern art department

18 July 2017

Giovanna Bertazzoni and Adrien Meyer have been appointed co-chairmen of the auctioneer’s impressionist and modern art departments.

Humbert

Watercolour portrait of ‘the three Brontë sisters’ takes top estimate at JP Humbert Auctioneers

18 July 2017

Northamptonshire auctioneers JP Humbert has sold a painting that it says could be a portrait of the Brontë sisters by Edwin Landseer.

Waugh 3

Maggs Bros exhibition of Waugh’s illustrations includes plague-inspired Christmas card

17 July 2017

Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) came back into the spotlight earlier this year with the release of a new BBC adaptation of his 1928 book Decline and Fall, the satirical story of a young man’s expulsion from Oxford and subsequent adventures.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti portrait of Fanny Cornforth

Rossetti ‘Lady Lilith’ portrait returns from Japan and sells for £560,000 at auction

17 July 2017

A Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) portrait of his mistress Fanny Cornforth led Sotheby’s latest sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art in London.