Auctioneers

Due to the nature of dealing in multiples, where direct price precedents are available, prints are sometimes regarded as the most predictable area of the art market.

Around 500 original artworks by the late Peter Firmin (1928-2018) – co-creator of Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, The Clangers and Basil Brush – were sold in a remarkable sale at Canterbury Auction Galleries.

The exceptional provenance of a trademark Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) painting gave it a commercial boost when it appeared at Lay’s (21% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Cornish Art in Penzance.

If close personal connections between artist and sitter can raise the value of a portrait, then you might expect a picture by a celebrated artist of his mother to do rather well when offered on the market.

A fascinating archive of diaries and photographs shedding light on the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition has sold for almost £35,000 in total at auction.

A rare portrait sculpture of a scandalous Victorian heiress that sold at auction has been acquired by Buscot Park following a temporary export bar.

The image introducing Tony Stark’s superhero persona – Iron Man – has set an auction record.

A portrait of the artist Laura Knight (1874-1970) by her husband Harold Knight (1874-1961) sounds like the kind of work always likely to generate interest at auction. And this is especially so if it happens to be previously unrecorded and offered with an inviting estimate.

Postcards by the so-called ‘outsider’ artist Madge Gill (1882-1961) are being offered in a selling show in Cecil Court, London this month.

A new silver department at Azca Auctions is among the latest industry news

A sale at Duke’s in Dorchester this week included two tickets related to the launching of two of the Olympic class liners in Belfast in 1911.