Auctions

A sculpture offered at Dorotheum, attributed to the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini, soared to nearly 100-times estimate in Austria.

A Dutch Old Master portrait drew notable bidding at Lawrences of Crewkerne (25% buyer’s premium) earlier this month.

A pair of Kangxi blue and white porcelain ‘soldier’ vases and covers hammered at £180,000 when Duke’s of Dorchester sold selected contents from Breamore House, near Fordingbridge in the New Forest.

With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The highest price for any work of art sold at auction in France was set at Sotheby’s Paris this week when Claude Monet’s (1840-1926) ‘Iris’ was bid to €43m (£36.1m).

Are Tasmanian tigers like buses? In Bristol they are. Having not seen one in ages, Auctioneum is preparing to auction a second Tasmanian tiger head.

A Sèvres porcelain jatte-téton, commissioned for Marie-Antoinette’s dairy at the Château de Rambouillet, has resurfaced after more than two centuries.

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A new auction record for any antiquity has been set at Sotheby’s New York.

A rediscovered drawing by Canaletto (1697-1768) drew a strenuous bidding contest at Oxford auction house Mallams today.

Newporth beach was pretty much the ideal setting for Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929) to paint nude figures en plein air.

The largest group of works by Bettina Shaw-Lawrence (1921-2018) ever to have come to the open market will be offered at Cheffins later this month.