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Five questions with sculpture dealer Georges Van Cauwenbergh

03 March 2025

Georges Van Cauwenbergh is the director of Artimo Fine Arts Gallery, in the renowned Sablon antiques district of Brussels.

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Precious metals prices: issue 2683

03 March 2025

On Friday, February 28, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $2862.30 / €2754.40 / £2271.67

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Twentieth century masters make waves at Frieze LA

03 March 2025

Modern names were among the major sellers at the recent staging of Frieze Los Angeles.

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Surrealist artist offers reward to find his missing works

03 March 2025

Henry Orlik (b.1947) is a celebrated Surrealist who is enjoying a career revival, but the cheering comeback has been tarnished by a raft of missing work.

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Barry Humphries – an entertainer and collector who could have been an artist in his own right

03 March 2025

Works painted by the man behind famous comic characters are sold at auction alongside those he acquired

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Plates once rated as rarities on Antiques Roadshow demonstrate that delftware ‘still has a following’

03 March 2025

Two English Delftware plates, described on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow a decade ago as “as rare as you can get”, went under the hammer at Woolley & Wallis (26% buyer’s premium) on February 5.

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Use of silver fuels powder flask desirability

03 March 2025

A rarity offered on the opening day of the sale held by Mellors & Kirk (24% buyer’s premium) in Nottingham on February 11-12 was this George III silver pear shape powder flask.

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Bath Decorative ‘brings new business to the trade’

03 March 2025

The Bath Decorative Antiques Fair returns to The Pavilion venue from March 13-15.

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Bid Barometer: issue 2683

03 March 2025

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online

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Royal silver oils the deals in Paris

03 March 2025

Elaborate cruet frames from the pre-revolutionary period stand out in a traditional sale selection

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Previews: issue 2683

03 March 2025

Our selection of lots from 11 upcoming auctions

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Rediscovered Claudel bronze has aged well

03 March 2025

Lost from view for a century, a three-figure bronze group by the sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) made an auction appearance in Orléans on February 16.

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Newcomb works emerge from private collections

03 March 2025

Works by Mary Newcomb on sale at Crane Kalman Gallery’s exhibition

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Aubrey Beardsley takes an unusual photo finish

03 March 2025

As well as eight books and manuscripts by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98) at Christie’s sale of the Barry Humphries collection – plus one photo of the illustrator and author too – the auction included a rare self-portrait.

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Oak back on the auction block in Salisbury

03 March 2025

Salisbury saleroom holds specialist offering staged as part of a three-day sale as demand increases

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Trade takes advantage of Malvern opportunities

03 March 2025

Dealers were out in force to buy from other traders at an annual showground event praised as busy but friendly

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The tale of Great Aunt Betty, key British designer of the 1920s-30s and a fiercely independent woman

03 March 2025

“To the inhabitants of Wyndham Road, an unremarkable cul-desac of bungalows in Andover in Hampshire, Mary Stewart Lockhart, the white-haired old lady in number 5, must have seemed equally unremarkable… None of them could have realised that between the World Wars she had been one of the leading furniture makers, designers and businesswomen in the country.”

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Bidders speak highly of mysterious 'silent companions'

03 March 2025

The so-called ‘dummy board’ or ‘silent companion’ is believed to have originated in Holland during the early 17th century.

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Series of Wilde results for the collection of comedy legend

03 March 2025

Famed for his range of characters, Barry Humphries was also a bibliophile of great taste

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Ephemera event takes invention as inspiration

03 March 2025

The Ephemera Fair, the annual event from the Ephemera Society of America (ESA), runs this year with a conference on the history of invention as well as the usual huge selection of stock.

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