France

Beaussant-Lefèvre is holding a series of sales on May 28 at the Drouot auction centre. Among them is an auction of Old Master and Modern paintings and antique furniture assembled by the collector James Bismuth (1931-2020) offered for sale by his descendants.

The restrictions operating during the latest lockdowns are continuing to ease in countries including France and the Republic of Ireland.

Set of table and six chairs by the Danish designer Verner Panton designed in 1971 for Fritz Hansen is on offer at the Drouot in Paris.

On June 16 Christie’s Paris is holding a sale devoted to female artists.

Guantype archaistic vase, seal mark and period of Yongzheng comes up at Paris auction.

Bonhams has moved its annual Greek art auction to France from London following Brexit.

A number of Paris salerooms will be holding dedicated auctions of Asian Arts in June.

A highlight of the Asian Art sale at Tajan will be this still-life of a pot of primroses, apples and porcelain by Chinese artist Pan Yu Liang (1895-1977).

On May 18 Paris auction firm Tessier Sarrou is selling the first part of a collection of Japanese swords.

In 1918 in Florence the Italian artist Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971) produced a series of paintings, Explosions Lyriques, exploring the conflict between Abstraction and Figuration.

Paris auction hub best-sellers from March range across variety of collecting fields and eras.

A Sèvres cabaret service painted with portraits of famous women was a New Year’s gift from a French empress

A painting by the French 18th century artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was discovered last January hanging on the wall in a local home.

Woman excluded from the guild of artists was nevertheless highly rated by kings and emperor

An Old Master drawing by the Italian Baroque sculptor, architect and artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) sold for a hammer price of €1.55m (£1.34m) at an auction in Compiègne in France.

Attributed to northern Italian sculptor Girolamo Campagna (1549-1625), this hitherto unrecorded model of Amphitrite, Poseidon’s wife, features in an exhibition of Renaissance sculpture under way at Galerie Sismann.

Colonel stationed in Africa then China amassed an impressive collection that sold at auction in France earlier this month

No fewer than 248 pieces feature in this grand Paris porcelain table service painted with floral reserves on a green and gilt border and central flowersprays.

With so much talk of fairs cancelled, auctions postponed and dealer activity constrained, it makes a change to feature the opening of a new gallery.

This 9¼in (23.5cm) diameter Sèvres porcelain plate is painted en grisaille with a portrait of the artist Annibale Carracci within borders of chrome green and gilt laurel and oak leaves, fleur de lys, palmettes and florets.