Auctions

Roseberys’ Prints & Multiples auction on April 16 includes 56 lots from the collection of avant-garde artist Agathe Sorel (1935-2020) and her husband Gabor Sitkey, also a painter and textile designer.

Eighteen letters written by Beatrix Potter to an antiques dealer between 1933-43 come for sale in Nottingham this month.

A newly discovered prime period untitled work by Indian Modernist Akbar Padamsee (1928-2020) established a new house record for Roland Auctions in Glen Cove, New York, on March 28.

This Georgian treen tobacco stopper or pipe tamper sold for £2900 at Hartleys in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.

Portrait of actress who mesmerised Hitchcock makes highest sum for the artist since 2020

Generating plenty of competition at Bonhams Skinner (28% buyer’s premium) was this lot of three pieces of Elkington & Co silver plate.

Our selection of lots from 16 upcoming auctions

Norwegian kjenge or kasa have been used for drinking ale at special occasions since the medieval period.

Books from a routine call proved disappointing until a first edition Dracula loomed into view

For followers of rock stars, style icons, actors and actresses, opportunities abound to acquire signed photographs of some of the famous cultural figures of the 20th century

AH Wilkens (22% buyer’s premium) worded the lot notes carefully.

Two 20th century posters in quite different genres set records at auction in early March.

Though leeches do remain in the pharmacopeia, they’re no longer stored in the ceramic jars and urns common to pharmacies of the 18th and 19th century.

Original works and prints by the likes of Bob Dylan and Ronnie Wood are increasingly sought after

Compared with Scandinavian exploration by illustrious figures such as Nansen and Amundsen, the Vega Expedition is little known outside the region.

In the latter half of the 19th century, French society stood at the crossroads of progress.

Despite the strict antique ivory rules, Japanese art can still take big sums - as a Norfolk sale demonstrates