Auctioneers

Tennants’ latest picture sale in Leyburn featured a group of 26 British Impressionist paintings relating to the artistic communities at Staithes and Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. They raised a hammer total of £32,180.

Sworders’ London gallery at 15 Cecil Court is to host its first selling show this month.

Two works catalogued as ‘circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)’ caught the attention at a recent sale at Keys (25% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham, one creeping over estimate but the other smashing it spectacularly.

The latest art market report by ArtTactic revealed that global auction sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips fell by 6.2% for the first half of 2025.

The latest Movers & Shakers including at auction houses Woolley & Wallis, Bonhams and 1818 Auctioneers.

A collection of relics linked to the historical Buddha will now go on public display in India.

A dozen years after it was last sold in England, a portrait of Sir James Stirling (1791-1865), the first governor of Western Australia, returned to auction Down Under earlier this month.

Two contrasting works by William De Morgan (1839-1917) – a sketchbook and a triple-lustre charger – were offered for sale by Dominic Winter in consecutive sales this month.

Following the sale of a rare 1920s Louis Vuitton Explorer trunk for a hammer price of £130,000 at John Nicholson’s on June 11, a second example emerged at the Surrey auction house this month.

The highest auction price for Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) for eight years came at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) latest British, European & Sporting Art sale.

A London auction house is launching a new day honouring collectors

Three Bloomsbury Group paintings, two by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) and one by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), lit up the inaugural Modern Art sale at Duggleby Stephenson of York (25% buyer’s premium).