London

The 2023 edition of Masterpiece London and the summer Art & Antiques Fair Olympia have both been cancelled, leaving a crater in the capital’s summer season.

Bringing fervent bidding at Kings Russell’s (28% buyer’s premium) first sale of the year, two portraits by Veronica Burleigh (1909-99) set the highest prices ever recorded for the Sussex painter.

The Camille Claudel Museum has unveiled its newly purchased Volubilis sculpture by Alfred Boucher.

Brexit and decline in international exhibitors also blamed as Masterpiece is among the latest to close

Asset of Community Value status breathes life into campaign to save Hampstead antiques centre

What is very probably a new record for the Nymphenburg porcelain factory was set at the 500 Years of European Ceramics sale at Bonhams (27.5/25% buyer’s premium) on December 7.

One of the most interesting pictures sold at the latest series of Old Master sales in London was an interior scene by David Teniers the Younger (1610-90).

Juan Manuel Grasset became part of a new generation who bought directly at auction from the 1960s

Macclesfield and Liverpool auction house Adam Partridge has expanded its operation into the south-east and south-west of England with the purchase of two existing salerooms.

A museum in the Netherlands has bought a Dutch Golden Age portrait from dealer Johnny Van Haeften.

Eye-catching bijouterie attracted international buyers to Olympia Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) 320-lot European Works of Art sale.

M Charpentier has been trading for more than 30 years, started by the late Maggie Charpentier in the 1980s and is now run by her daughters, Alix and Camilla.

Special showcase at the winter edition centres on very collectable shop advertising signs and fixtures

Highlights from London auction also include art historian’s collection and extraordinary Orwell oddity

Discovered by a metal detectorist on Dorset land once owned by Sir Thomas Brook, the late 14th century diamond set gold love ring captured hearts and international interest at Noonans’ (24% buyer’s premium) Mayfair rooms.