Bidders on red alert for Dod’s mystery girl

Wonfor takes on head role at Dreweatts and Forum

by Roland Arkell Art consultancy and valuation

Christie’s sales go ahead despite cyber attack

Christie’s has been the victim of a ‘technology

Casket celebrates a key Henry VIII conquest

Casket attributed to Diego de Çaias

Carrington work sets British-born female artist record

Les Distractions de Dagobert by Leonora

Pratt joins Berkshire firm Dawsons

Jonathan Pratt. Dawsons Auctioneers

Eye on the needle for Firsts fair

A book elaborately illustrated with

Online dealer showcase announced as part of LAPADA 50th anniversary celebration

by Frances Allitt Right: Freya

Bid Barometer

Online buying: realised prices at auctions on thesaleroom.com

Flowers to soothe the pain of St Helena exile

Wreath apparently sent

Detailed exhibition view but possibly not one witnessed

Pick of the week Although the image

Precious metals

On Friday, May 17, Michael

News in brief

Large Stubbs work has a hefty estimate

It’s wheely early memorabilia

Archive sold in Somerset and bugle offered in Dorset reflect the first organised cycling clubs

Batty idea ended up full of holes

Run Reaper bat used by Sunil

Fixture list lined up two sports auctions in Glasgow

1. Benfica v Rangers 1948 match

Player shed blood for the cause back in 1978

Hammer highlights

Prince of Speed designed nifty posters

Posters designed by

Prices high for Man Utd rarities

Estudiantes v Man U programme, 1968,

Actor also had a private passion

Despite Peter Barkworth’s very public profile his art collecting was a much more personal matter

Art innovator Richardson’s collection comes to auction

Pencil self-portrait by Marion Richardson, £5500

Laying down the laws for monks

Manuscript ‘sold in 1776’ at forerunner of Sotheby’s emerges in New York sale

Bake to basics approach

The Book of

Cryptography book creates a Shakespearean drama

Title page of Cryptoryptomentyces et Cryptographiae

Seven up for Sowerby work

The Science, Medicine & Early Technology auction at

London’s ‘curious gardens’ inspired German botanist

One of the 100 plates from

Previews

This mid to late Victorian

Impressionism anniversary marked amid a muted response

Gallery with family connections stages a show 150 years on from Paris exhibition where the art movement began

five Questions

Simon Rastall , one of

British ceramics come home via Australia

1. Chelsea group of two children,

eye on an Object

Thousands of items are available to buy from

Merkle and his Meissen

Focus on first part of a series of porcelain sales offering businessman’s collection

Springtime brings Asian art

Annual specialist extravaganza held in Paris involves galleries, auction houses and museums

French previews

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The original and authoritative sales listing

This is a calendar of art, antiques and

Artist’s Resale Right

Advertisements in Antiques Trade Gazette may mention Artist’s

Variety is the spice of vintage life

Organiser of a series of shows says curation means traders are offering a wide range of items

Brocantes bring taste of the summer

Backstage at one of The Country

Going, going, gone over the edge

Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood chariman Cristian

Younger Young completes her professional pathway

Kirsty Young of Golding Young.

Plaque shows symbolic purpose

The mystery object featured in Letters

‘On the Medway’ looks more like ‘On the Deben’ to me

The view described as ‘On the Medway’ (

Obituary - Bruce Fearn (1939-2024)

The late Bruce Fearn.