Dealers

In this issue we feature 40 fabulous objects available to buy on dealers’ websites.

Due to the current Covid-19 situation, ‘non-essential’ businesses such as antique shops, centres and galleries have been closed since last Tuesday. However, many dealerships are very much ‘open’, working at home and trading via email and websites. Pictured here is a selection of fine pieces of period jewellery for sale today.

Our selection of 40 objects to view and buy from dealers online.

In recent days dealers have turned to new ways of selling as the world went to war against coronavirus. For traders across the board, online has now become the new normal.

Fair organisers were forced into making dramatic changes to their schedule as almost every event in the UK and Ireland was either cancelled or postponed last week, while many dealers were left facing the most challenging conditions for trading in living memory.

Sim Fine Art has sold a 28-work collection of pictures by Second World War artist Paul Drury (1903-87) to the Science Museum in London.

The Open Art Fair, the new incarnation of what was the annual BADA fair in Chelsea, opened in hugely difficult circumstances on Wednesday March 18.

The world's leading art and antiques fair shuts early but dealers report significant sales at testing time

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

The round of applause that broke out for fair organiser Matthew Adams at the Royal Horticultural Halls on Sunday, March 15 was loud and, exhibitors said, very well-earned.

Susanne Schulz-Falster deals in rare books from Woodstock, Oxfordshire.

An exhibition of St Ives Modernism is to go ahead with all works available online.