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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week we cover robots, reports and gentlemen’s agreements.

The annual TEFAF art market report has been scrapped in favour of a number of smaller, focused reports, leaving Clare McAndrew’s Art Basel report as the sole market-wide survey.

A small oil by Paul Cézanne, valued at $1.2m-1.8m, will be on view in London later this month.

Sponsorship - and organisation - of the Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show is changing hands.

If you worried about robots becoming a threat to jobs, or even to humanity, look away now. If you are, however, fascinated by the more benign impact of toy robots, then keep on reading about a Chippenham Auction Rooms sale.

Antiques dealer Wendy Salisbury’s novel ‘The Toyboy Diaries’ has been turned into a musical and is making its debut tonight at Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester.

A large fragment of the Union Jack believed to have flown from HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 drew determined competition at Sotheby’s.

Australian auction house Mossgreen is to be wound down by administrators after joint founder Paul Sumner was unable to restructure the firm.

Auctioneer turned art advisor Simon de Pury has won his court case over the payment of a $10m fee.

The belongings of Lady Lucan, who died last year, and Lord Lucan, who vanished over 40 years ago, are coming up for auction in Banbury next month.

The British Antiques Dealers’ Association (BADA) will host a showcase of antiques and art used in contemporary interiors as part of its schedule of centenary celebrations this year.

A giant ‘stained glass’ effect artwork by contemporary artist duo Gilbert & George is going to auction later this month.

Collectors can often be as fascinating as a collection itself. Take Reginald J Cheetham, an extraordinary man who amassed a huge array of items now coming up for auction at the Adam Partridge saleroom.

Pablo Picasso’s ‘Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée’ is to be offered at auction next month, and although it is not unusual for a Picasso to be leading an Impressionist & Modern auction, there are a number of reasons why this portrait is a cut above.