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Dunand deco design fires the imagination

28 April 2025

Jean Dunand was an Art Deco period craftsman known above all for his skill in the technique of lacquer and a good example of his craftsmanship was the star turn in a sale of decorative arts held by Tajan (26/21/14% buyer’s premium).

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Antarctic artefacts in demand at two recent auctions

28 April 2025

A letter from Robert Falcon Scott – aka Scott of the Antarctic – came up for sale at Canterbury Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) on April 11-14.

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All the world is indeed a stage - playbill promotes Arctic theatre production

28 April 2025

This rare playbill on silk printed in the Arctic in 1852 sold for £4400 at a recent sale at Keys (25% buyer’s premium) in Aylsham.

John Frederick Lewis watercolour

‘Jewel-like’ Harem scene by John Frederick Lewis adds allure to Bonhams sale

25 April 2025

A market-fresh Orientalist scene by John Frederick Lewis (1804-76), unseen in public for a generation, led the latest sale of 19th Century and British Impressionist Art at Bonhams.

The Annunciation by Overbeck

Overbeck’s early Nazarene painting sells at Tajan

24 April 2025

A previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) sold for €104,000 (£87,000) as part of the Tajan (26% buyer’s premium) latest Old Master Paintings and Drawings sale.

Jiang Tingxi bird

‘Extraordinary discovery’: Kangxi bird paintings valued at £800,000 emerge at Roseberys

23 April 2025

A group of 19 album leaves from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ have been discovered in homes in Dorset and London.

Christ Carrying the Cross by Luis de Morales

Dealer Daniel Katz sells Spanish Old Master to Getty Museum

23 April 2025

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86).

Charles Rennie Mackintosh cutlery

Strong demand for Charles Rennie Mackintosh works as cutlery suite makes five times estimate

23 April 2025

The latest Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh was dominated by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928).

Terence Cuneo painting

Cuneo’s painting of Germany’s unconditional surrender brings bidding at Sworders

22 April 2025

A painting by Terence Cuneo depicting the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath has sold for £60,000 at Sworders.

Japanese Art Bonhams 2690NE

Bonhams’ Japanese art sales moved out of London

21 April 2025

In a loss to the sector, Bonhams has shelved its sales of Japanese works of art in London. Specialist Suzannah Yip, who had led Bonhams’ department for 18 years, has left the company after a decision was taken to move operations to Paris.

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Getty purchases ‘feminist’ medieval manuscript from dealer Les Enluminures

21 April 2025

Dealership Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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Oldest known medieval Jewish artefact comes up for sale

21 April 2025

The oldest known medieval Jewish artefact, a Kiddush cup from the 11th or 12th century, is being offered at Sotheby’s later this year.

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Prick of the bunch at £14,000 hammer

21 April 2025

A diminutive Quaker pin cushion made to raise funds for a pioneering mental health hospital in York has sold for a remarkable sum at Woolley & Wallis.

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Nature abhors a vacuum but Nollet’s audiences loved them

21 April 2025

Among the more extraordinary forms of French furniture is the ‘machine pneumatique’ – a device used in the Age of Enlightenment to demonstrate the mysterious properties of the vacuum or ‘the energy of the nothingness’.

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Richly illustrated folio from rare Islamic manuscript emerges at Christie's

21 April 2025

Christie’s will offer a folio from a rare 15th century Timurid manuscript in London on May 1.

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Ithell Colquhoun firmly in the market spotlight

21 April 2025

Seven works by Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) lead Bonhams’ inaugural British Surrealism sale running until May 1.

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News in brief including a Stuart Devlin collection coming to Woolley & Wallis

21 April 2025

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including works by Stuart Devlin being consigned to auction by the late designer’s widow.

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Rolex flew round the world worn by pioneering pilot Sheila Scott

21 April 2025

A Rolex GMT-Master ‘Pepsi’ stainless steel automatic dual time wristwatch first worn by Sheila Scott OBE (1922-88) on her recordbreaking solo flight around the world is coming to auction.

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Colourful designer and artist John Sutcliffe celebrated at dealer's show

21 April 2025

Abbott and Holder is hosting an exhibition from April 24-May 10 celebrating the work of John Sutcliffe, one of the great decorative painters and colour experts of his generation.

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Irish art buyers happy to spend big online

21 April 2025

In typical fashion, a landscape by Irish art market heavyweight Paul Henry (1877-1958) took top honours at the latest round of auctions in Dublin – though its sale to an online bidder was an unexpected twist.

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