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Contemporary African art is currently much in vogue in the French capital.

MADAM – I write for the purposes of maintaining the trade in general, and in advance of knowing the provisions in the forthcoming law regulating the UK ivory trade (which can only act to the detriment of the trade and do nothing to save the elephant). The law could consider the separation of items solely made of ivory from those that contain ivory as a constituent part.

Key findings from the first Art Basel and USB Global Art Market Report.

ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.

Two opposing views on the big questions facing the trade…

A small work by Russian artist Ivan Pavlovich Pokhitonov (1851-1924) leads a large consignment of pictures from a private London club to Harry Moore-Gwyn’s Blythe Road sale on April 5 in West Kensington.

Christophe Richème likes to mix periods and styles: a Napoleonic bridal vase sits alongside a 1970s shop display cabinet in his shop Pele-Mele Antiquités in Montmorot Lons-Le-Saunier in the Jura region.

Evelyne and Paul Khormaian are shown in front of their stand, which was packed with French kitchenalia and, in particular, domestic antique and vintage irons and clothes-pressing items.

MADAM – In case there is any doubt about the need for more clarity in auctioneer fees, the following figures illustrate the confusing situation faced by the seller.

MADAM – I was amused to read in ATG No 2283 that a bronze reduction of An Athlete struggling with a Python by Lord Leighton, which will be sold by Bonhams on April 5, had been bought in 1934 for 57 shillings and 17 pence.

ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period March 16-22, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.

Presumably the recipient, one Charles Salter of ‘Edinborough’, was pleased to receive to this 18th century green-glazed creamware presentation teapot in 1791.

Crane Kalman’s upcoming exhibition Jethro Buck – Axis Mundi features recent work by a contemporary artist interested in Indian miniature painting.

This 17th century Hispano Filipino sculpture of the dying Christ will feature in the next auction at Anteo Subastas in San Sebastián in Spain on April 25.

An imposing sight on the stand of London furniture dealer Godson & Coles, this early 18th century japanned bureau cabinet sold for a six-figure sum at the BADA 2017 fair.

Stricter rules around the collection and use of data will have a “significant impact” on the art and antiques business, delegates at an Auction Technology Group (ATG) seminar in London were told last week.

Masterpiece London has revealed the list of 149 dealers to stand at its eighth annual fair taking place this summer, a similar number to 2016.

“Very rare, most extant copies behind institutional walls,” said Swann (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of a first English language version of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.

First Birmingham NEC fair of 2017 courts the interior design trade with welcome BIID tie-up

West Sussex dealer Joe Chaffer started Vagabond Antiques & Décor in October 2015.