Print issue 2693 (17 May 2025)
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News
- Hong Kong Buddha gems sale postponed amid outcry
- Kentian table takes remarkable six-figure result
- Decorative Fair early sale successes announced
- Canaletto Venice view will break record
- National Gallery buys ‘mystery’ altarpiece in £16.4m deal brokered by Sotheby’s
- Bloom time for the books trade
News Digest
- Pick of the Week: Indian-English bureau flies at auction
- De Ribera work emerges from rural Swedish shed
- News in brief including Hugh Edmeades' SOFAA training days
- Bid Barometer: issue 2693
- Precious metals prices: issue 2693
Auction Reports
- Treasures from a ‘miniature VA’ family home crammed full with art and antiques
- Lewis takes a peek into the harem
- Rediscovered Nazarene work revealed to be Overbeck
- Cartwright catches the essence of life in 19th century Corfu
- Cuneo covers Second World War German surrender - from a photo
Books & Works On Paper
Previews
Books, Maps & Prints 2025
- Sponsor’s message: Reassuring words in a changeable climate
- Fairs: London’s May book bonanza
- Cecil Court: the long and ‘idiosyncratic' history of this London hub for booksellers
- Oscar winners: how Wilde's works have become highly sought after by collectors
- Dame Edna was wild about Wilde
- Collector Interview: From Little Red Riding Hood to a nationwide exhibition
- Albrecht Durer: The printmaker supreme
- Interview: Durer prints represent 'one of the biggest achievements in art history'
- The appeal of association copies: a unique link to people and place
- Spirited performances for books at German auction
- Key text by Locke takes $120,000
- When France gave up Guadeloupe
- Toulouse-Lautrec doodles show talent
- The A to Z of book terms
- Binding the book trade together: how associations work to protect and promote dealers
- Our selection of upcoming books and works on paper auction previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Selling art in challenging times: Art Market Report 2025
- Art specialist targets growth
- Former Christie’s expert launches own rare books firm
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
- Dealer duo exhibiting antique garden tools at Chelsea Flower Show
- Country house car boot comes to Eridge Park
- Book fairs find a new London home
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