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In the wake of new sanctions on Russia, auction houses Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams have cancelled sales of Russian art in London scheduled for June.

Two stoneware tavern bottles produced at John Dwight’s Fulham Pottery in the 1670s surfaced for sale in West Sussex earlier this month.

The art market is being unfairly targeted with restrictions and regulations over stolen cultural property according to its most senior trade federation.

The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia returns for its first in-person summer event in two years – at lower prices than before the pandemic.

Bonhams has acquired Massachusetts auction house Skinner – a purchase that comes only two months after it bought Swedish saleroom Bukowskis.

Dreweatts offered this market-fresh Henry Moore (1898-1986) figure group, 'Mother and Child', on March 16.

California dealership Denenberg Fine Arts has sold a full set of 80 prints from the Jugendstil magazine PAN to Chicago’s Driehaus Museum.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced the Ivory Act 2018 will be enforced on June 6.

A long lost Antonio Canova (1757-1822) sculpture that previously sold for around £4400 in a garden statuary auction in 2002 is to be offered at Christie’s on July 7 with an estimate of £5m-8m.

Sir Joshua Reynolds’ (1723-92) portrait of Pacific Islander Omai has been given a £50m price tag and barred from export for a third time.

This 1930s pencil and gouache for the Lawn Tennis Championship Meetings was a poster design for London Underground.

A portrait of a 15th century Flemish man drew a protracted bidding battle in Barcelona this month after speculation it could be an elusive work by Dieric Bouts (c.1415-75).

The ivory regulations of New York State will be reviewed by New York court judges following an appeal brought by two US antique dealer associations.

An early work believed to have been painted by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) at the age of 16 has emerged at Cambridge saleroom Cheffins.

An Anglo-Saxon gold shilling or thrymsa dating from 650- 670AD took £15,000 at Dix Noonan Webb in Mayfair.

John Dixon of Scotland’s Georgian Antiques has become the new vice chairman of dealer association LAPADA.