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The difficulties at the top end of the Modern and Contemporary art market were very much in evidence at the latest flagship auction series in New York.

Two pictures with natural history subjects drew the strongest competition among the Indian works of art consigned from the collection of the late Francis Golding (1944-2013) to a recent Roseberys’ (26% buyer’s premium) sale.

When three teenagers helped Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd’s roadies to lug their gear into Central Hall, Chatham, on December 1, 1967, they found themselves locked in with the stars.

The attic contents of two historic private country estates is set to be offered at Dreweatts in Newbury.

Flowers have inspired artists for centuries and ahead of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show dealers are tapping into the horticultural theme

A group of Kangxi bird paintings from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ sold for a combined £600,000 at Roseberys in south London.

Auction house John Pye has been appointed to help find a buyer for the collapsed pottery firm W. Moorcroft Ltd.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a painting of the Virgin Mary by Sandro Botticelli valued at £10.2m.

An Old Trafford supporters’ bench removed during Old Trafford’s 1992 renovations made 33 times its estimate at Graham Budd's latest auction.

The ‘retirement’ sale of dealer Paul Atkinson’s collection at Essex saleroom Sworders this week will be held exactly 50 years since he opened his first antiques shop in Derbyshire.

With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week