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The earliest known painted work by the Indian sculptor Ganpatrao Mhatre (1879-1947) drew international interest at a recent sale at Chiswick Auctions (26% buyer’s premium). The untitled picture ...
Despite ongoing concerns that the current economic uncertainty, anaemic growth and trade tariffs is affecting the supply of major lots, the value to auction houses of paintings by ‘big names’ was ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York buys 18th century reverse engraved glass picture Sutton Coldfield dealer Thomas ...
A Scottish dirk believed to have been used at the Battle of Flodden recently surfaced at Arthur Johnson & Sons in Nottingham. When Henry VIII invaded France in 1513, Scotland helped its Auld Alliance ...
The latest jobs moves and appointments across the world of art and antiques LAPADA, the association of art and antiques dealers, has app… ...
The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Chinese handscroll generating a bidding contest lasting over an hour and a half ...
Derbyshire event attracts visitors not just from the Peak District but Cheshire, the Midlands, Nottinghamshire and south Yorkshire ...
Following opposition from the Indian state, Sotheby's took the 11th hour decision to cancel a Hong Kong auction of a collection of relics linked to the historical Buddha. Sotheby's said that, in light ...
An autograph album containing the signatures of notable figures from the early 20th century is to appear at Chiswick Auctions in a timed sale ending May 18. The album provides an insight into the ...
Hong Kong auctioneer CC Wang conducted Sotheby’s ‘longest ever bidding battle’ when a calligraphy handscroll by a Yuan ...
The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a monumental Hans Coper (1920-81) vase which was found in a London garden among weeds selling at Chiswick Auctions ...
Alexander Rotter has been appointed global president of Christie’s with immediate effect. Rotter has been global chairman of 20 th and 21 st century art at the auction house since 2017 where h… ...