Dealers

As fresh construction work finishes hopes are high in 75th anniversary year

Helen Yourston of B2B Events is gearing up for the first Malvern Flea of the year on Sunday, January 15, at the Three Counties Showground where bookings are healthy at 250 traders.

A jeweller’s shop in Lincoln which first opened in 1959 has closed its doors after 63 years in business.

The 69th edition of the venerable fair takes place at its traditional venue of the Park Lane Armory

John Robertson deals in paintings and is among the exhibitors at the Mayfair Antiques and Fine Art Fair in January.

Antiques street markets have a vibe all their own. Jennifer Titmuss of Corky Events runs her monthly antiques and vintage markets in St Albans and Chiswick and both are doing well, with the St Albans event now in its fifth year and going strong.

Art & Antiques for Everyone, the fair held three times a year at Birmingham’s NEC, has been scrapped for 2023, raising concerns that it will never return.

Two large-scale murals by leading Modern British artists have been purchased by The Rothschild Foundation from dealer Liss Llewellyn.

Anna Zinkeisen (1901-76), who painted 'The Boxing Match' depicting a bout from 1928, enjoyed publicity from the painting at the time.

In its stable of women artists Modern British art specialist Osborne Samuel features Sybil Andrews (1898-1992).

Dealer Karen Taylor is among those noting that “collectors seem to be following the trend set by museums and buying more work by women”.

Collectors are responding positively as dealers put overlooked female artists in the spotlight

This wartime portrait of the writer Amelia Defries shows her in the role of an ARP warden in Kensington.

Compact Paris exhibition includes 19 works with a ‘super provenance’ to the artist’s wife

Anyone familiar with HG Wells’ 'War of the Worlds' knows that the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one – but the things that do make it come with some serious firepower.

Works by Surrealist artist Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) have been rising in popularity.

Suggestions on centres to visit, from Cardiff and Pembrokeshire up to Denbighshire

Event will change next year to be held less frequently but with greater impact

Sadly, but not unexpectedly at the age of 90, Frank Dux passed away on November 18, 2022.