Auctioneers

The auction process is a key part of the secondary art and antiques market.

Firms of auctioneers usually specialise in a number of fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but many also hold general sales where the goods available are not defined by a particular genre and are usually lower in value.

Auctioneers often provide other services such as probate and insurance valuations.

Edward Bawden's Sunday Times print

Great Bardfield property yields appealing group of modern prints to Sworders sale

13 October 2025

A single owner collection from a house in Great Bardfield, Essex provided a number of good quality prints to Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern and Contemporary art.

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Kollwitz relief evoked scenes of Allied bombing raids

13 October 2025

In the midst of the Second World War, the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) produced a series of small sculptural reliefs on the theme of mothers protecting their children.

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High for a Mouseman recliner

13 October 2025

A classic early 1930s Mouseman recliner came for sale at a recent event held at Clevedon Auctions (22% buyer’s premium) near Bristol.

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Small but exceptional Doulton group emerge at Adam Partridge

13 October 2025

Just 30 figures from single owner collection offered in Cheshire saleroom rack up nearly £60,000 total

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Printing plate helped to spread the slavery abolition message

13 October 2025

An original printing plate for one of the best-known images of the abolitionist movement emerged at a recent Forum Auctions (27% buyer’s premium) sale in London.

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Changing sensibilities hit commerical fortunes of once-popular Nost sundial

13 October 2025

Selected Items from the Lynch House in Kensworth near Dunstable, home to the Rubin family of dealers for nearly 80 years, was offered in Dreweatts’ Fine Furniture, Sculpture, Carpets, Ceramics and Works of Art sale on September 10.

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Inventory recalls wonders of Thomas Windus’ Gothic Hall

13 October 2025

Manuscript work offered in Nottingham covers contents of Georgian private museum in north London

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Headless Roman emperor given nod of approval

13 October 2025

A recent sale at Harper Field (20% buyer’s premium) in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, included a weathered marble figure of a Roman emperor in armour.

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ATG letter: Identity remains unknown but artist is Smart

13 October 2025

Following your reader’s letter regarding the identity of the portrait sold at Reeman Dansie (ATG no 2711), I have nothing to add to the discussion regarding the sitter’s identity.

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Meat and greet lots of hotly contested kitchenalia

13 October 2025

US bidders show great appetite for early 20th century display slabs hailing from the UK

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Sèvres bottle coolers sell to French bidder at 20 times the top estimate

13 October 2025

A pair of 7in (17cm) Sèvres porcelain bottle coolers (seau à bouteille) sold for £6000 as part of Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) recent Country House Sale.

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Face of Victorian Scotland captured by Brodie

13 October 2025

The Scottish sculptor William Brodie (1825-81) began his working life as a plumber’s apprentice in Aberdeen.

John Stubbe portrait

Relic of a Tudor trial turns heads at Wiltshire auction

10 October 2025

Lot 586 at Henry Aldridge’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest two-day sale was one of the more curious lots to appear at auction in recent times.

The Georgian Group's HQ

Consignment call for charity auction to raise funds for Georgian heritage conservation

09 October 2025

The Georgian Group has teamed up with Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers for a special fundraising auction.

Albert Einstein's violin

Einstein’s violin takes £860,000 at auction

08 October 2025

A violin used by Albert Einstein during his late teens and early adult life was hammered down at £860,000.

Brass dish

Cotswolds design museum launches fundraising appeal to buy Gordon Russell dish

08 October 2025

The Gordon Russell Design Museum in Broadway, Worcestershire is fundraising ahead of an auction.

Girl in her Petticoat by Dod Procter

Major auction record for Dod Procter set at Bonhams

08 October 2025

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) latest sale of works by Modern British women artists in London.

Harry Clarke illustration

Harry Clarke illustrations bring hefty sums in Dublin auction

07 October 2025

Dubin-born Henry Patrick Clarke (1889-1931) was one of Ireland’s leading stained-glass artists and book illustrators.

Lama Koubrously, Marta Somauroo and Ilaria Bellucci

Azca Auctions announces new team after directors depart

06 October 2025

Azca Auctions in Hammersmith, west London, has announced new recruits following the departure of the founding directors earlier this summer.

Henry Moore chalk caricature

Henry Moore captures fellow sculptor in chalk form

06 October 2025

Catherine Southon’s October 15 Fine Sale in Chislehurst includes this chalk caricature of the sculptor Cecil Gunthorp (1893-1983) done by one Henry Moore (1898-1986).

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