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Battersea belters from decorative and beyond

30 October 2017

The third and final Decorative Antiques and Textiles Fair of 2017 produced some significant sales in decorative furniture and beyond. Many pieces ticketed for five-figure sums found buyers during the event’s six-day run (October 3-8).

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Shows mean Bomberg is firmly back in fashion

30 October 2017

“I was astonished by the group, both in terms of their individual quality and how cohesive the collection was,” says Waterhouse & Dodd’s Jamie Anderson, who earlier this year went to see a private collection of works by David Bomberg (1890-1957).

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Signature is lost in a snowdrift

30 October 2017

Winter landscape. Early 20th century, possibly Russian or Scandinavian school, and ‘indistinctly signed’. That was lot 222, summed up in the catalogue at Chiswick Auctions (23% buyer’s premium) in London on October 3.

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Life’s a beach for a Mod Brit artist

30 October 2017

Austin Desmond Fine Art, the Modern British gallery across from London’s British Museum, is currently showing 'Keith Vaughan: On Pagham Beach, Photographs and Collages from the 1930s' (until December 8).

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Henry Moore’s ‘Old Flo’ returns to London’s East End after 20 years

28 October 2017

Henry Moore’s 1957 sculpture ‘Draped Seated Woman’ has returned to Tower Hamlets after 20 years in Yorkshire.

Bhupen Khakhar

Howard Hodgkin estate sale achieves £3.65m at Sotheby's auction

27 October 2017

Sotheby’s sale of works from the collection of the British artist Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) raised a hammer total of £3.65m with 86% sold by lot in its Bond Street rooms on October 24.

London to Brighton classic cars cruise into auction at Bonhams

26 October 2017

Fancy owning one of the earliest vehicles on the road and racing it down to Brighton? Now’s your chance as more than 20 vintage cars, many restored and fit to compete in the 120-year old veteran run, are to be sold in early November.

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Asian Art in London Awards: On the trail with the judges

26 October 2017

ATG’s commissioning editor, Anne Crane, is one of the panel given the task of deciding who and what should win the prestigious Asian Art in London Awards. Here, she provides an insight.

The Goldfish Pool at Chartwell

Churchill’s final painting heads to auction at Sotheby’s

24 October 2017

The final artwork by Sir Winston Churchill is to be offered at auction with a £50,000-80,000 estimate.

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It’s all part of the Ealing process

23 October 2017

As Sugar and Spice, vintage dealer Emma Newman sells vintage homewares and also organises a regular small and busy fleamarket, pictured above.

Asian Art in London Awards: the shortlist

23 October 2017

We present the candidates for the 2017 AAL Awards, co-sponsored by ATG. Two honours are given for outstanding works of art: to a dealer and an auction house. Also, awards judge Anne Crane of ATG gives a personal insight.

Asian Art in London: on the rostrum

23 October 2017

There are 10 auction house participants in AAL this year, the number swollen by an increased international presence. ATG provides a selection of auction preview highlights.

Asian Art in London: Address to impress

23 October 2017

Dealers in Mayfair, St James’s and Kensington Church Street use Asian Art in London as a chance to bring out their showstoppers in exhibitions at their home or temporary spaces. Here, ATG picks out some of those events in more detail.

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Artist Jack figures highly in Yeats family collection sold at London auction

23 October 2017

The Emerald Isle was not the only place selling Irish art recently. In London on September 27, Sotheby’s (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) offered a collection of paintings and personal effects belonging to the family of Irish poet WB Yeats and his brother, artist Jack Butler Yeats.

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Asian Art in London: 20 years and growing

23 October 2017

The Asian Art in London festival of exhibitions and auctions runs for the 20th time from November 2-11. Here, Kate Quill and Roland Arkell look back at how it all began and what this year's event involves.

Hungarian silver-gilt cup and cover

Hungarian silver cup brings strong contest at SJ Phillips sale

20 October 2017

A 16th century Hungarian silver-gilt cup and cover proved the most eagerly-contested lot at Sotheby’s sale of items from the stock of SJ Phillips earlier this week.

Thames Tunnel, Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Can you dig it: Brunel Thames Tunnel archive of designs on offer in London auction

19 October 2017

London is a city now thoroughly used to tunnels. Tube travel has become a normal way to get about the bustling capital and has been for many years. Meanwhile, the huge Crossrail project tunnel section heading east from Paddington is scheduled for December next year.

Eugène Delacroix sketch

Sketch for Delacroix’s seminal painting ‘Liberty Leading the People’ offered at auction

18 October 2017

Auction house Christie’s is expecting a sketch for Eugène Delacroix’s (1798-1863) great painting ‘Liberty Leading the People’ to fetch up to £1m when offered in December.

William Turnbull bronze figure

Offer Waterman explores the career of William Turnbull

17 October 2017

Offer Waterman’s William Turnbull (1922-2012) retrospective offers the gallery’s most comprehensive solo show of his work since it took on his estate in 2015.

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Olympia fair welcomes venue redevelopment

16 October 2017

Clarion Events has welcomed the news that the Olympia exhibition site is to be redeveloped.

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