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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers and others. This week Christie’s battles Turkey over an Anatolian idol while Paris prepares for the Biennale and autumn season.

A group of previously unseen paintings by ‘the Lowry of the Potteries’ are on show in Cheshire.

Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854-1934) is most famous for his sculpture ‘Eros’ that stands high up in London’s Piccadilly Circus as the centrepiece on the Shaftesbury Memorial. Now, a bronze cast of ‘Perseus Arming’, the work which is described as his ‘breakthrough’ piece, will be offered at Bonhams next month.

Californian agriculturalist Lindley Bothwell (1901-86) made a fortune growing oranges in the San Fernando Valley and devoted much of his prosperity to classic cars.

The York Art Gallery has secured £180,000 towards its fundraising appeal to purchase a key work by local artist Albert Moore (1841-93).

A large collection of masonic glassware will go under the hammer in Bury St Edmunds next week.

A letter written by Albert Einstein to a close friend predicting Adolf Hitler’s rise has surpassed estimates at a US auction.

A Rolex ‘Paul Newman’ once owned by the actor himself will go under the hammer in New York in October.

An updated website for Hemswell Antique Centres has been launched as part of a larger programme of redevelopment marking its 30th year.

Auction house Christie’s has raised its buyer’s premium. The latest changes to the thresholds follow Sotheby’s announcement of a new premium structure last week.

A sapphire and diamond coronet designed by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria has been acquired by the V&A Museum. It was previously sold by a London dealer to an overseas buyer but was blocked from export by the government in 2015.

A study for Eduardo Paolozzi’s classic Tottenham Court Road Underground stations has ‘come home’ after being bought at auction. Not to London where the original mosaics by the pop art pioneer are located, but to the artist’s home city.