Art Market

'Only Banksy' was the title of a 24-lot offering at Forum Auctions (30/24/15% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in London.

'Femme a la Mandoline' was among the first paintings in what would become Tamara de Lempicka’s (1898-1980) full signature Art Deco style.

Music legend’s art collecting was little known but prolific

With crossover appeal between modern prints and vintage fashion, this Souper Dress attracted strong attention at a recent US sale.

The so-called ‘Four Indian Kings’ were not the first native Americans to visit Britain.

An early printed work by David Hockney (b. 1937) comes for sale at Ahlers & Ogletree in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 14.

A dedicated sale of 117 lots from the collection of the late Teesside art dealers and Staithes Group specialists Tom and Rosamund Jordan was held this summer at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) in North Yorkshire.

Regular followers of the modern Welsh art market will know that strong competition at Rogers Jones’ (24% buyer’s premium) specialist Welsh sales normally comes for an artist called Williams.

Two portraits and a shipping scene by the Newlyn School artist were consigned from three different sources

One of the better performing ‘manner of’ pictures of late was a landscape very much in the style of the great French Baroque painter Claude Lorrain (1600-82).

Trio of works by the Hungarian artist underlines the appeal of portraits as conversation pieces

When it comes to portraits produced by Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962), values are frequently determined by the fame of the sitter.

Since the 1960s, birds have been the main subject matter of New Zealand artist Raymond Ching (b.1939).

With the traditional hiatus in the UK auction market typically stretching across the month of August, a number of notable picture highlights appeared slightly earlier this summer at sales around the country.

The artist Richard Ernst Eurich (1903-92) is rather hard to categorise.

What’s best to do with unsold lots… offer them again at half the price guide perhaps?

Testing the market for still-lifes by Bloomsbury school favourite Duncan Grant (1885-1978), a painting by the artist emerged fresh from a notable source in Somerset.

Coastal scene formerly owned by collector in the diamond mining industry attracts considerable interest

Trial run for a full worked-up version counts as a highly sought-after picture in its own right

When it comes to historic views of England’s university cities, bidders’ interest is not only determined by the usual factors such as the calibre of the artist and the picture’s condition.