UK

The United Kingdom accounts for more than one fifth of the global art market sales and is the second biggest art market after the US.

Through auctioneers, dealers, fairs and markets - and a burgeoning online sector - buyers, collectors and sellers of art and antiques can easily access a vibrant network of intermediaries and events around the country. The UK's museums also house a wealth of impressive collections

John Marston’s The Scourge of Villanie

Banned and then burned – two early English satires bloom again at Bonhams’ sale

17 March 2017

Bound together some 200 years ago, rare copies of two Elizabethan satires that were first condemned and then burned will be among the books offered by Bonhams at the Glyn Cywarch sale later this month.

BADA fair 2017 Private View Party

BADA Fair 2017 – slideshow from last night’s private view party

16 March 2017

BADA 2017 kicked off this week with a private view party at the venue in Duke of York Square in Chelsea. Among those attending was Lord Heseltine. ATG brings you a selection of 10 shots from the event.

Roman helmet

Carlisle museum welcomes back £2m Crosby Garrett Roman helmet

16 March 2017

A major British archaeological find is to return to a Carlisle museum for a new show on Hadrian’s Cavalry.

Parliament

Antiques trade hopeful of business rates reform following government u-turn on National Insurance

16 March 2017

A government u-turn on a National Insurance rise has been welcomed by the art and antiques trade, giving hope that a review of business rates could follow.

BADA fair

A King’s Road Trip – 10 images from Chelsea Antiques Fair and BADA 2017

16 March 2017

With many dealers based in and around Chelsea’s King’s Road, this area of west London is a common haunt for members of the art and antiques trade. But mid-March is arguably the busiest time of the year for business here when both The British Antiques Dealers Association (BADA) and Penman Fairs stage their annual events. This year BADA 2017 and The Chelsea Antiques Fair run simultaneously, each closing on March 19. Yesterday, ATG took a walk down the King’s Road to look around the stands and view the objects on offer at both fairs.

Princess Diana letters

Princess Diana letters on honeymoon and birth of son head to auction in Gloucestershire

15 March 2017

Letters from the late Princess Diana surfaced at auction earlier this year in Cambridge and now another set is being offered in Gloucestershire.

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James Bond 'Dr No' film posters produce auction double 0 heaven

15 March 2017

Latest auction results in the film poster market show that for the right designs with a licence to thrill the buyers will follow.

Francesca Ellis of  JP Humbert

Northamptonshire auctioneer appoints new co-director

15 March 2017

Whittlebury saleroom JP Humbert have appointed Francesca Ellis as co-director.

Churchill

Czech émigrés' studio sculptures come to auction at Mallams in Oxford

14 March 2017

Works from the studio of sculptors Franta Belsky and Irena Sedlecka are coming to auction at Mallams in Oxford.

Sotheby's contemporary art auctions

Currency weakness helps London auction fortnight to record figures

14 March 2017

The latest series of Impressionist & Modern and Contemporary art auctions in London showed a dramatic improvement on the equivalent sales last year and the overall premium-inclusive total represented a record in terms of sterling.

Stubbs

Stubbs painting rediscovered after “one of the biggest deaccessioning blunders”

14 March 2017

A painting by George Stubbs previously believed to be a copy will be offered by The Parker Gallery at BADA 2017 opening in Chelsea this week.

ivory report front cover

Questions raised over methodology of report that calls for changes to ivory regulation

14 March 2017

A report out today (March 14) calls for "significant structural changes" to the laws governing the sale of ivory in the UK but trade bodies have queried its methodology, citing low response rates.

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Sim Fine Art sells domestic painting of lazy Sunday to London's Geffrye Museum

13 March 2017

Sim Fine Art has made its second sale to a major London institution in two years with the sale of a painting the Geffrye Museum.

Christie’s South Kensington

Art and antiques industry reacts to impending closure of Christie’s South Kensington

13 March 2017

The news of the impending closure of Christie’s South Kensington may not have come as a great surprise but, without doubt, its demise seems like an ‘end of an era’ moment.

Rapier

Barn find unmoved for 30 years emerges for Lord Harlech sale at Bonhams

11 March 2017

A 1936 Lagonda Rapier barn find will be among the lots at the Bonhams sale of the new Lord Harlech’s family collection.

Business rates lobbying

11 March 2017

Trade bodies are lobbying the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, about a planned hike in business rates, ahead of his first Budget speech on March 8.

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Prince in the tower Edward V coin found in field comes to auction

10 March 2017

King Richard III is the Marmite Monarch. You love him or you hate him. On one hand he is regarded as a monster, on the other as misunderstood and unfairly maligned.

Amelia

Doomed female pilot's Leica camera appears at McTear's auction

10 March 2017

A camera belonging to ill-fated US aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart is among the lots going under the hammer at McTear’s in Glasgow this month.

Moai kavakava figure at auction

Tourist souvenir or tribal art rarity? Swiss art dealer’s Easter Island figure sells for £95,000 at Berkshire auction

09 March 2017

There was some good old fashioned saleroom drama at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions in Newbury yesterday when a moai kavakava style figure, estimated to bring just £400-600, sold at £95,000. The buyer in Berkshire was from Australia.

Kvosh stolen

Russian kovsh stolen from Lancashire art and antiques dealer

09 March 2017

A Lancashire art and antiques dealership is appealing for help to track down a stolen antique Russian drinking vessel.

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