Previews: £30,000 plus

NPG seeks help from trade to grow collection

£40,000 funding in place for vernacular portraits ‘owned by ordinary people’

Smith leaves Oxford by design to join Lyon & Turnbull expansion

Smith leaves Oxford by design to join Lyon & Turnbull

‘Bigger and better’ Liotard sold to German museum

A private museum in south-west Germany has bought a

New editions and additions to the European fairs calendar

In Paris, Christian Deydier has launched Sublime, to

Classic Chinese works shine across NY Asia Week series

More than $120m of Asian art was sold at auction during

‘Money-laundering’ limit to apply to all transactions

The art and antiques trade is facing further money

Clarice’s Age of Jazz back on centre stage

An American private collector bid £15,000 for a rare

Pick of the Week: Constable sketch reaches for the sky

Pick of the Week: Constable sketch reaches for the

Bid Barometer – issue 2335

From thesaleroom.com

Summer Palace bronze up at auction

An exceptionally rare Western Zhou bronze, taken when

News In Brief

Ronald Phillips will host an exhibition of Chippendale

The latest market forces

The global report delivers the bigger picture for auctions and dealers but there are findings relevant to the mid- and lower-markets too

Global figures

The value of overall sales in the UK market in 2017

The global picture

Art Basel’s The Art Market 2018 report recorded a shift

Auctioneers and dealers

Sales at public auction of fine and decorative art

‘It was like selling used to be…’

Cambridge auctioneer gets all nostalgic as sale produces country house collective warm glow

The hand of Frod

While many a hopeful vendor has to be told gently that

Petit service is big-seller

Porcelain by Jacob Petit (1797-1868) is a scarce sight

Decorators show a sense of style

“It’s not the age or pedigree – it’s the look of the

Cornish B&B consignment checks in

Considering retiring and selling up, the owner of a

Sheep found in snowdrifts

Deep snowdrifts accompanied the March 2 sale at Chippenham

Irish view of star-crossed lovers

Study emerges at Dublin sale for Burton’s popular depiction of medieval Danish ballad

Le Brocquy heading back up

The work of Dublin painter Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012)

Hone bidder

Among Horace Hone’s (1756-1825) most renowned depictions

Kirby’s gender agenda

Contemporary art drew considerable interest recently

Sidney works gain life after death

Famous Elizabethan author’s posthumously published works have huge sale value today

Seacrest library generates more sale gems

A signed and dated 1839 first (second issue) of Dickens’

Busman on a honeymoon

Busman’s Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions

Map lots go to plan at auction

Cartographic rarities showed the way to strong results

Aldine books fly high

Aldine press books of the early 16th century, mostly

Previews: Up to £500

This attractive pair of George III gentleman’s buttons

Previews: £501 - £2000

This large modern ‘Carp’ vase by Sally Tuffin (b.1938)

Previews: £2001 - £5000

Kate Thurlow at Gallery Forty One in Battersea, London

Previews: £5001 - £30,000

A Scottish art timed auction at Glasgow saleroom McTear’s

Freshen up for the weekend

Long-standing fair opens special section to offer a lower-cost chance to make sales

Spoons in the spotlight

A Spoonful of Arts & Crafts in the UK is the special

Old Bill bomb disposal

Bac To Basic Antiques brings a special display of First

Shop talk – Antiques and Chic

111 London Road, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, CM21

5 Questions

Julian Eade deals in antique pottery and porcelain.

Trio based Down South make fresh moves

Gallery openings have declined steadily during the

The Arqivist

Jessica Farnham, left, formerly a curator at a London

Goodman Fine Art

Mark Goodman of Goodman Fine Art has opened a gallery

Richard Gardner Antiques

Richard Gardner has opened a shop in Emsworth, Hampshire

Dealer takes a good look back

This year marks a 20th anniversary for Northamptonshire

Seconds in for round two

Last week’s review of a recently published ebook on

Local experience, global ambitions

Three German auction houses tell how they aim to strike the right balance between bricks and mortar sales and enhancing the online experience. Paul Wheatley reports

10 Things to know about the German auction scene

The German auction scene is not regulated nationally

Grand tour of Germany

Stand-out lots at auction include cork Colosseum in Cologne, writes Jonathan Franks

When the saints go marching in

On the Baroque façade of Girona Cathedral in Catalonia

BRITISH AND IRISH BOOK AUCTIONS

Mar 26*@ 33-lot Books, Maps & Ephemera, Boningtons

Forget the Beast from the East: it’s our Best from the Easter

Organisers across the country gear up for what they hope is a fine bank holiday weekend

More Easter dates

A few more Easter fairs and markets around the UK over the Easter weekend:

Let’s have discussion without bias on antiques ivory issue

Let’s have discussion without bias on antiques ivory

Shame of early ivory purchases

MADAM – I have pieces of antique elephant tusk ivory

Who are you kidding?

MADAM – I did a double – no, triple – take when I read

Why I go for broke Staffs

MADAM – I am an artist and a restorer and have been

Cross out the scribbles

MADAM – Have sellers of antiquarian books never considered