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Nearly 80 years after Walter Sickert’s (1860-1942) death and ahead of a major retrospective planned at Tate Britain in 2022, London gallery Piano Nobile is bringing together over 40 of the artist’s figure paintings for an autumn show.

This photo, below, was taken on September 4 at the annual inter-auction house sailing regatta at Seaview, Isle of Wight. The teams represented were Sotheby’s, Bonhams, Phillips, Roseberys and a dealers’ team represented by the likes of Colnaghi and Agnews.

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Winter Arts & Antiques Fair at Olympia in west London is returning.

This Victorian snake necklace is one of the best of its kind to appear on the regional market in recent memory.

A selection of sapphires that drew interest at auction over the last two months

After enforced absence Northern Antiques Fair returns to the calendar at new venue

This dramatic scene depicts the burning of a warehouse in Wapping Wharf during the Bristol Riots of 1831.

This first edition of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale will be offered for sale by Scammell Auctions in Adelaide on October 11.

This 1930 view of Boulogne on a misty day was painted by Albert Marquet (1875-1947).

Andrew Jones in Los Angeles is selling two single-owner collections in online-only auctions in October.

Lisbon firm Veritas is holding an estate sale of works from the collection of the Count of Póvoa, D Manuel de Souza e Holstein-Beck, who died in 2011.

The first dedicated published study on the harvest jug tradition of North Devon and the West Country goes on sale this September.

Sapphire mining at the Yogo Gulch in Montana began in 1895 after a cigar box of pale blue gems picked from a creek by a local rancher found its way to Tiffany’s in New York, where an appraiser pronounced them “the finest precious gemstones ever found in the United States”.

A selection of 16 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

Jane Sanderson of The Antiques Bazaar is a new exhibitor at The Northern Antiques Fair, which runs from September 30-October 3.

Cache of 17th century coins found during restoration of medieval home in Brittany

Baron Ribeyre & Associés is holding a two-day auction at Drouot in Paris devoted to a collection of enamelled advertising signs from 1900-60.

Dealer association LAPADA has announced a return of its annual conference and this time it is being held in the autumn, as opposed to its usual February date.

The career course of Edith Robinson (1862-1929), a London art teacher and painter of chocolate box watercolours was changed in 1893 when she and her new husband, the Stamford artist Nelson Dawson (1859-1941) attended a series of lectures given by the enameller Alexander Fisher.

After nearly a decade, jewellery specialist Joanna Hardy has completed her triology of gemstone books. The latest tome is Sapphire: A Celebration of Colour* which will be published at the end of the month. It follows volumes on emeralds (2013) and rubies (2017)