Auctions

News and previews of art and antiques sold at auctions throughout the UK and overseas, from multi-million-pound blockbusters to affordable collectables.


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Moreau festive designs for birth of the Dauphin are now celebrated by the Palace of Versailles museum

15 May 2026

The artist Jean-Michel Moreau the younger (1741-1814) was employed from the 1780s onwards as a dessinateur des Menus-Plaisirs.

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Previews: issue 2744

15 May 2026

Our selection of lots from nine upcoming auctions

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Focus on Murano includes Martens vase

15 May 2026

London dealer Liliane Fawcett, who since 1984 has traded from Notting Hill as Themes and Variations, began acquiring Italian post-war glass just as the secondary market was forming.

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Pink topaz and diamond brooch sets house record at Perthshire auction

15 May 2026

Perth saleroom Lindsay Burns (22% buyer’s premium) posted a new house record with an exceptional piece of period jewellery at its latest three-day sale.

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Cameo appearance for glyphic art among Salisbury’s jewels

15 May 2026

Interest in glyphic art, that reached its collecting apogee during Grand Tour collecting, is resurgent once more.

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A price to remember – spotlight on mourning

15 May 2026

The grim mortality rate of 17th century Britain precipitated a taste for memento mori jewellery that reached its height of popularity in the early 1700s.

Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries

Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries come to auction this summer

14 May 2026

A pair of late Medieval Royal heraldic embroideries with a Spanish connection will be offered at Bonhams on July 2 with a £200,000-300,000 estimate.

René Boivin ear clips

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including a pair of Maison Boivin ear clips

14 May 2026

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

Still Life – Flowers by Duncan Grant

Duncan Grant still life catches the eye at Modern Made sale

13 May 2026

While a bountiful Cedric Morris still life was the headline lot at Lyon & Turnbull’s (27/26% buyer’s premium) latest Modern Made sale, it wasn’t the only flower painting that drew keen interest at the auction.

Keats' love letters

Keats’ love letters returned to family after theft now come to auction

12 May 2026

A rare group of eight autograph letters by John Keats (1795-1821) to his fiancée Fanny Brawne that had been stolen in 1989 but later recovered are now heading to Sotheby's.

Laskett Garden

Sir Roy Strong’s garden statuary comes to auction after his beloved The Laskett is set to be sold

12 May 2026

Statuary from the garden of art historian, writer and museum curator Sir Roy Strong is to be auctioned at Chorley’s.

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John Wayne's signet ring is among five lots to watch

11 May 2026

With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

Paysage du Jardin no.2 by Cedric Morris

Blooming marvellous: Cedric Morris flower painting makes it to £180,000 with help of 27 species

08 May 2026

A detailed and colourful flower study by Sir Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889-1982) attracted fervent competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction in London.

Castiglione picture

Hong Kong auctions get off to an auspicious start

08 May 2026

Sotheby’s Hong Kong’s Asian Art Week was led by the earliest extant court painting by the Italian Jesuit painter Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766).

Portrait of Henry Pelham

Descendant consigns two prime minister portraits to Essex auction

08 May 2026

Portraits of the third and fourth prime ministers of Great Britain are among the highlights of a fine collection of British portraiture that comes for sale at Sworders on May 19.

Art Deco bracelet

Price Reporter: Latest auction results including an Art Deco articulated bracelet

08 May 2026

ATG's Price Reporter brings you a regularly updated selection of auction prices, keeping you on top of the latest market values

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Samuel Palmer and printmaking: the other side of his creativity

08 May 2026

Ahead of a new exhibition at a London gallery, Alex Capon takes a closer look at the renowned Romantic artist’s later work and the market that now exists via auction houses and dealerships

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Previews: issue 2743

08 May 2026

Our selection of lots from nine upcoming auctions

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Hornby trains building up a head of steam at auction

08 May 2026

Prices for Hornby 0 Gauge clockwork railway toys have been rather flat for quite a few years now.

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Works with a licence to thrill: book collectors' first editions in demand at auction

08 May 2026

Fine collection of British modern novels amassed over decades includes earliest editions with dust jackets

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