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The first visit of 2025 to Yorkshire for Cooper Events will be 'The Pavilions of Harrogate Decorative Antiques & Fine Art Fair' from February 7-9.

Among the Modern British pictures generating bidding at the end of last year was a portrait by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) that was lifted to an above-estimate sum thanks to a combination of commercial factors.

Until the 1990s, Ilona Singer (1905-44) belonged to a forgotten generation of artists whose lives were cut short by the Nazis.

Sale of Kunstkammer items amassed by the founder of Mothercare will bring English and Continental silver and furniture in the princely tradition to the rostrum

A plaster figure by the Bauhaus artist Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) set a new auction record for one of his sculptures when it was sold by Lempertz (26/20% buyer’s premium) in Cologne.

To say that retired police officer Brab Hallowes has a passion for collecting would be something of an understatement.

Recent barrage of regulation impacting the art trade includes Russian rules you really need to heed

In terms of Modern British pictures sold around the country over the last year, a number of highlights came late in the day.

With estimates set at modest levels, Bourne End Auction Rooms (17.5% buyer’s premium) notched up a 100% sold rate for its offering of the Velma Young collection on January 7.

The estimate of £1000-1500 reflected the condition of an Elizabethan ‘Great Bible’ offered at Cotswold firm Wotton Auction Rooms (20% buyer’s premium).

Well-funded bidders joined the fray at the recent sale of tinplate toys held by Hohenstaufen (24.5% buyer’s premium) in Göppingen. The two top lots were very different but brought equally impressive results.

The Leicester engineer Robert Crawford Johnson (1882-1937) registered the design for the cube teapot in 1916.

Bronze works by the accomplished 20th century sculptor prove to be sought-after purchases

A scarce First World War recruiting poster proclaiming Irishmen Avenge the Lusitania has sold to a London museum as part of a large collection offered at Dorset saleroom Onslows (29% buyer’s premium inc VAT).

Our selection of lots from 12 upcoming sales

After standing at numerous events for a year, trader with marketing and sales background starts his own

Original cover artwork, antiquarian books and more modern novels made up a sci-fi and fantasy selection at a London saleroom

Master Drawings New York (MDNY), the major showcase for drawings in the US, returns to the American city from February 1-8.

Yet again, we the public and dealers are to be deprived of seeing, buying or selling beautiful works of art – scrimshaw – when the ban comes into force this month (News, ATG No 2676).

“Even though there were no fairs from May to October last year due to the closure of the Dorking Halls, we were lucky enough to have the use of the sports centre next door which thankfully proved to be a great success,” says Jane Alexander, organiser of the well-known Dovehouse Fine Antiques Fairs.