Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Movers & Shakers: the latest art and antiques appointments including a shake-up in Sotheby's fine art team
15 July 2024Changes to Sotheby's Global Fine Art leadership team feature among the latest recruitment, promotions and business updates
Old Master hidden away for a century emerges at Newcastle auction
11 July 2024An Old Master recently reattributed to the Renaissance painter The Master of Marradi (fl.c.1475-c.1500) has emerged for sale at Newcastle auction house Anderson & Garland.
Artillery museum shells out at auction to secure First World War battle scene
10 July 2024The Royal Artillery Museum has emerged as the winning bidder for a rare eyewitness view of a First World War battle sold at a recent auction in Farnham.
Surrealist Pulham’s pulling power in the saleroom is on the rise
08 July 2024Pictures by the early English Surrealist Peter Rose Pulham (1910-56) are relatively rare at auction but the interest garnered by a few works that emerged recently suggested they are on the rise commercially.
Knight plays a part in sale success
08 July 2024Portrait sketch of pianist by Dame Laura was one of the eye-catching works on paper offered in the run-up to summer
Clarissa the carp could be catch of the day in a saleroom
24 June 20242024: Brace of carved salmon, 45lb and 39lb, caught by the same angler from Ireland’s river Nore, £25,000 at Duke’s
Filipino painting provides an art house record
24 June 2024Bury St Edmunds might not be the most obvious place to find pieces of Filipino modernism.
Rediscovered Edward Bawden watercolour finds path to London auction
19 June 2024A watercolour by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) which was considered lost since the 1940s emerged at the latest fine art sale held at Olympia Auctions.
Rogers Jones expands to mid-Wales with sales at Gregynog Hall
18 June 2024Welsh auction house Rogers Jones is launching sales at Gregynog Hall in Powys. It will also open a new regional office for mid-Wales and the border regions at the venue.
Indian works head to the sub-continent
17 June 2024Two pictures by British artists with strong Indian connections sold for record sums at Dreweatts after drawing interest from the sub-continent.
Chardin’s sliced melon is a cut above to set Old Master record
17 June 2024Christie’s set a record for any Old Master sold in France when a still-life by Jean Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) made €23m (£19.4m) at an auction in Paris on June 12, selling to a European collector.
Migrant artists on the move at Sotheby’s
17 June 2024The summer exhibition running at Sotheby’s this year focuses on works by artists who were born overseas but passed through or settled in the UK permanently.
Paper chasers: British Museum shows off recent print purchases
17 June 2024The British Museum never stands still when it comes to acquiring works on paper, as a new exhibition showcasing purchases over the past 20 years demonstrates
Indian bidding lifts Dreweatts picture sale as two works make over £200,000
14 June 2024Two pictures by British artists with strong Indian connections sold for record sums at Dreweatts after drawing interest from sub-Continent.
Chardin still life raises bar for an Old Master in France
13 June 2024Christie’s set a record for any Old Master sold in France when a still-life by Jean Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) made €23m (£19.4m) at an auction in Paris on June 12, selling to a European collector.
Famous 44lb carp dubbed ‘Clarissa’ emerges for sale
13 June 2024For collectors of cased fish, it doesn’t come much better than this.
Artist Kathleen Scale's work weighed up by a fresh audience
10 June 2024The opening section of Duke’s latest Art & Design post 1880 sale was devoted to the ‘forgotten’ artist Kathleen Muriel Scale (1913-2006).
Bidders go wild for Tunnicliffe birds shown on the move
10 June 2024A picture of oystercatchers flew way past the estimate at a recent Adam Partridge (20% buyer’s premium) sale in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Whether country or town views, Newlyn artists are setting the scene
10 June 2024More paintings on offer in Dorest saleroom from the Cornish ‘school’ show the market strength
Jobs to be cut across the big London auction firms
10 June 2024Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Bonhams are all undertaking rounds of redundancies.