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ABA ‘Olympia’ fair will move to Battersea

Evolution is ‘the best solution for members and the book-buying public’

No mention of ivory in Tory manifesto

The Conservative Party has omitted any mention of ivory

Basquiat and Brancusi dominate NY art week

The f lagship auctions of Impressionist, Modern and

Top 5 all-time record auction hammer prices (in £)

1. £108.1m ($160m) – Pablo Picasso, Les femmes d’Alger

Investment sought for art shares trading platform

An online platform for trading shares in artworks could

Check address to avoid scam

Auctioneers are again being warned to check addresses

Pick of the Week: From the lens to the small screen

A rare early photographic instrument – bought for a

Bid Barometer – issue 2293

From thesaleroom.com

News In Brief

Berlin auctioneer Historia Auktionshaus has acquired

Taking the chains off art loans

The UK’s complex art-lending scene is a pale shadow of its US counterpart. However, as Laura Chesters reports, a new law could change all that – if loans against art works can be registered.

Types of art financing

Pledge: the asset is given to the lender in order to

In numbers

■ 2019 – expected date of new UK lending law Goods

Players in the art lending market

The high-value lenders include: Falcon Fine Art, Athena

Sale staples are holding up well

Auction trio reflects an overall buoyancy with the usual areas showing underlying strength

Bridge crossing

The big surprise at BHL’s April 11-12 sale at Exeter

Storr inkstand makes its mark

Made by Paul Storr, highly decorative and from the

Regularity leads to popularity

New monthly picture sales produce promising start as Surrey auction house reaps the rewards

Saville in the flesh at Edinburgh sale

Jenny Saville’s (b.1970) contorted and grotesquely

Cubist inspiration is key to ever-popular northern art

Cubist inspiration is key to ever-popular northern

Shabby shock: mystery woman makes £9500

A rather shabby portrait of an unknown woman sparked

Dutch show the way Down Under

Map underlining the significance of seapower to the republic is a discovery at Sotheby’s

Hubert Dingwall: Quixotic fancies and English fairies

The late Hubert Dingwall began a lifetime of book collecting

Illuminating Brussels result

An unexpected highlight of an April 28-29 sale held

Twain sets the pace in third Neville sale

Finely bound sets feature here in a second selection

Ladybirds at sea and in the air

Artwork produced for the much-loved ‘Ladybird’ books

Christie’s notes on ‘whodunnits’

Containing over 150pp of notes and fragmentary drafts

Previews: Up to £500

This English Bilston patch box is estimated at £300-500

Previews: £501 - £2000

This violin dates to 1778 and was made by Augustino

Previews: £2001 - £5000

This pair of life-sized sculptures of Spanish explorers/

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

This wardrobe on stand by the Arts & Crafts Dutch

Previews: £30,000 plus

A cache of letters written by members of the Romanov

Turning the page from Olympia

This year’s ABA fair is the last one in west London before the event moves to Battersea Park

Other events during Rare Books London

Rare Books London, of which ATG is media partner, has

Eat a good breakfast and keep smiling…

The London International Premier Fair (June 2-3) is

Shop talk

Martlesham Antiques The Thatched Roadhouse, Main Road

5 Questions

David Bownes is the former head of collections at the

New chapter in the life of a bookcase back in Harrogate

Cooper Events’ next outing is The Pavilions of Harrogate

Tide powers Scottish show

Coming up next at The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh

Make a romantic gesture

John Minton’s 1940 painting Landscape with Figures

The fabulous world of indigenous

Summer highlights from tribal collecting field in Belgium and France plus a new UK auction

The Bourgogne Tribal Show

While most tribal art events take place in major cities

Interview with Gordon Reece

The Fine Art Society’s exhibition Gordon Reece: The

When the world comes to Brussels

CULTURES – The World Arts Fair is a gallery-based event

Tribal tempters in new Sussex sale

Summers Place Auctions in Billingshurst is well known

With a little help from Lennon

It has been 50 years since the Beatles released their

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

May 23 Medieval & Renaissance MSS, Continental

The force is strong with new event

Rare Star Wars poster on offer as a highlight of ‘eclectic’ fair launching at Sandown Park

Silver swan talk glides into West Dean’s art festival

An 18th century silver mechanical lifesize musical

Bavarian’s views of Dickensian London

A sketchbook by the Bavarian artist Georg Johann Scharf

Oxford antiques centre goes very, very green

Last October we reported that Oxford’s Antiques on

Stonor boosts the booters

Built from the 13th century onwards and the ancestral

People

Special Auction Services has appointed Jessica Forrester

Then & now

News as reported from the ATG Archive

Merger vote should be next step

MADAM – Following on from your ‘State of the Trade’

When the hammer falls, I reckon that’s the final say

MADAM – Milton Silverman in A lawyer writes (ATG No

George II, Napoleon and a perfect gentleman

MADAM – In a recent Fairs & Markets (ATG No 2291)

Editor’s comment

While businesses and consumers absorbed the devil in

God Bless America (and the US)

DEAR EDITOR – Without wishing to appear nit-picking

Higher the value, more seller power

MADAM – As the focus of the debate in ATG’s letters