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Twig makes it big as BADA winner

18 November 2024

The British Antique Dealers’ Association (BADA) has hosted the BADA Art Award for a fourth year.

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Huge Flea choice in Somerset

18 November 2024

The hubbub that is the Giant Shepton Flea has been run by veteran fair organiser Sue Ede and her family for nearly 25 years.

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Modern & Contemporary art: Signs of a market on the move

18 November 2024

Artists who had been achieving modest levels of success are catching up with the help of young collectors

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First die-cast Leica camera comes up

18 November 2024

The first-ever Leica die-cast camera, dating to 1933-34 and created by the Oskar Barnack, the father of modern 35mm photography, appeared as a landmark lot in the sixth sale from Wetzlar Camera Auctions (21.01% buyer’s premium) - held in the hometown of the manufacturer.

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Restituted Blechen mills flow finally to a saleroom

18 November 2024

When he was 24, Carl Blechen abandoned his intended profession as a banker and devoted himself to painting.

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Condition is key to appeal of the handful of Alwar survivors for sale

18 November 2024

In his magnus opus Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition, 1883, Thomas Holbein Hendley (1847-1917) documents what he called “a new and most interesting style of engraved silver plate developed in Alwar”.

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Obituary: furniture dealer Robin Kern

18 November 2024

It is with great sadness that we report the sudden death of Robin Kern at the age of 86.

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Man Ray work proves popular, naturally

18 November 2024

Abstract and Surrealist paintings by the American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) are a valuable proposition at auction and so it was inevitable that a small picture from a good source would draw interest at a recent Cotswolds auction.

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Touch of luxury and novelty evident in a west London sale silver selection

18 November 2024

Dressing table sets are among the most frequently surviving elements of late 17th century hollowware.

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Agatha Christie collection detects high demand

18 November 2024

Highlights from the The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper offered at Forum

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Gaudier-Brzeska torpedo fish sculpture shoots to £30,000

18 November 2024

A bronze by the French artist and sculptor Henri Gaudier- Brzeska (1891-1915), who died in the trenches aged just 23, was among the lots bringing demand at Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern & Contemporary art.

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News in brief including the Ashmolean Museum's purchase of a Fra Angelico

18 November 2024

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of the Ashmolean Museum buying a Fra Angelico Crucifixion scene

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Imperial porcelain and quality Kangxi add a particular shine to Asian art auctions

18 November 2024

The wider market for Asian art is increasingly selective, but Qing mark and period porcelain continues to shine in the saleroom.

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Continuity Fairs benefits from solid customer base

18 November 2024

Review of an event praised as being casual and inexpensive to stand at but also well organised

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Enough to render you ‘speechless’: exceptional Chinese art amassed by industrialist

18 November 2024

In storage for a century, a remarkable group of Chinese works of art has sold for £870,000 at a south London auction.

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From satire to satyr in Zurich

18 November 2024

Old Master and Daumier artwork, bronze figure and Italian porcelain all on offer over three days

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Electric train sparks bidding battle

18 November 2024

Star of the show at Auktionhaus Heilbronn’s (21.7% buyer’s premium) latest sale of tinplate toys was a rare three-carriage Märklin train from the Rheinuferbahn, the line from Cologne and Bonn along the banks of the Rhine.

Books and works on paper auction calendar, November 18-December 8

18 November 2024

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper auctions

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Mr Toad stars in a Shepard original sold at Forum Auctions

18 November 2024

Wind in the Willows illustration leads varied selection of lots offered by west London saleroom

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‘I love The Colony Room ‘mural’ but how do I sell it?’ says Hyman

18 November 2024

Enormous slice of Soho culture and history features in gallery’s 25th anniversary show

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