Europe

International museum and institutional interest is always a feature of the Salon du Dessin but this year it was even more marked with nearly 500 curators attending.

Although cautiously catalogued, the Library Collection sale at Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dublin on April 29 included three pieces of Roman statuary that had been in an Irish private collection since around 1940.

The toy manufacturer Märklin did not just produce models for private use.

Sheet of various figures and body parts in red and white chalk set an auction record for Primaticcio

Silverware with connections to key figures from the famous French firm of Puiforcat proved to be a major component in a sale of items from a Parisian family collection held by Beaussant Lefèvre (28% buyer’s premium).

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including the acquisition of Adams Blackrock by Ross's Auctioneers

Stockholms Auktionsverk believes it has discovered a previously unknown oil by Spanish Baroque artist Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652).

An artist in high demand in his day, Dürer prints still fascinate collectors. ATG surveys the market for works by great Old Master draughtsman

ATG speaks to Astrid-Christina Schierz, specialist in Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures at Austrian auction house Dorotheum.

ATG takes a look at some stand-out lots sold recently at an auction in Berlin

Painting of a cabinet includes letter fixed to the door with possible mention of Grand Duke Cosimo III

The evolution of Berlin porcelain – produced by Royal Porcelain Factory founded in 1763 by King Frederick II of Prussia – was well illustrated by two vases which both went way over the estimates in recent sales.

A floral still-life by Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder, discovered only recently in a European private collection, was one of the stars at a recent sale at Koller (25/22% buyer’s premium) in Zurich.

Two enticingly estimated, early glasses from a west German private collection were fiercely contested in the online sale held by Wendl (21% buyer’s premium) in Rudolstadt.

Best known for his fairly routine genre portraits of German peasants and ordinary folk, Thomas Baumgartner (1892-1962) also produced an intriguing series of paintings depicting soldiers from the First World War.

A traditional ensemble of art and antiques that had come from a property in the department of Ille et Vilaine attracted no shortage of attention when it went under the hammer at Ivoire Nantes (24% buyer’s premium) earlier this year.

Collection included timepieces presented to intrepid French pilots