Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Cleveley arrives at Bonhams this summer
01 May 2014Bonhams will be looking for fair winds in July when the John Windeler Robertson collection goes under the hammer in New Bond Street.
Stubbs’ big cats to headline Sotheby’s Old Master sale
02 April 2014A rare painting of two big cats by George Stubbs will be offered for sale at Sotheby’s Old Master sale in London on July 9.
Lowry collection raises £13m at Sotheby’s
28 March 2014The stand-alone evening sale of 15 paintings by L.S. Lowry at Sotheby’s on March 26 raised £13m, with all bar two works getting away.
Wartime prints marching to the fore
28 March 2014Images and footage of the First World War seem to be featuring prominently on TV at the moment, no doubt part of the extra attention engendered by the marking of the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict in 1914.
Lowry’s people on a promenade
14 March 2014A sketch by LS Lowry will be offered at Peter Wilson of Nantwich in Cheshire on May 1.
Old Master to headline in Shrewsbury sale
14 March 2014A rare early work by the Dutch Old Master painter Dirck Van Delen (c.1605-1671) will be offered at Halls of Shrewsbury on April 16.
Nevinson watercolour at fine art sale in Yorkshire
06 March 2014This picture by CRW Nevinson (1889-1946) is being offered at the Spring Fine Art Sale being held by Tennants in Leyburn, North Yorkshire on March 28-29.
Christie’s to offer important Old Master drawings collection
27 February 2014Christie’s has announced a major consignment of Old Master drawings which will be offered over the next two years in a series of sales in London, Amsterdam and Paris.
Constable drawings emerge at Cambridge sale
20 February 2014This pencil drawing by John Constable inscribed ‘Binfiled Decr. 6th 1816’ is believed to have made when the artist was staying in Binfield in Berkshire whilst returning from his honeymoon in Dorset with his wife Maria.
Bacon helps set record for London Contemporary series
18 February 2014The Contemporary art sales in London last week raised a hammer total of £254.6m, a record for an auction series in this category in the capital.
Modern British art collection at Boningtons
12 February 2014A single-owner collection of Modern British art will be offered at Boningtons’ sale of fine art, antiques and Asian works of art in Loughton, Essex on February 26.
Colourful Gris tops London Impressionist & Modern series
10 February 2014Leading the latest series of Impressionist & Modern auctions in London, a textbook Cubist still life by Juan Gris (1887-1927) sold for £31m at Christie’s.
Edvard Munch's The Scream sets all-time auction record
03 May 2012The latest round of Impressionist and Modern art sales in New York will forever be remembered as ‘The Scream’ series.
Export ban for £26m Raphael drawing
08 March 2010Culture minister Margaret Hodge has placed a temporary export ban on Raphael's Head of a Muse after ruling that an attempt should be made to keep the £26m drawing in the UK.
What makes the £58m walking man so special?
05 February 2010If the price paid for Alberto Giacometti's (1901-1966) sculpture L'Homme qui Marche I is anything to go by, then the art market is now striding out of recession. Selling for £58m (plus premium) at Sotheby's evening sale on February 3, it became the most expensive object ever sold at auction.
Trophy lots set new records at Old Master sales
14 December 2009The latest Old Master sales in London underlined the importance for auctioneers of securing the best works by major names.
Dadd sketch heads for the Met in New York
29 October 2007Art dealer Andrew Sim has sold a watercolour by Richard Dadd (1817-1886) to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It is the first work by the enigmatic Victorian artist to enter the museum’s vast art collection.
Is Leicestershire sleeper lost Titian?
23 July 2007This summer has seen a spate of sleepers awoken in provincial salerooms, but inevitably the one that grabbed the headlines in the national press was the tale of the rediscovered ‘Titian’.
When did you last see your Dadd?
18 July 2006Enigmatic, elusive, rarely seen, and classified as mad – but that’s our Dadd!
Monet leads Christie’s Impressionist and Modern art sale at £9.6m
01 January 1996Christie’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern Art in London was led by Claude Monet's Iris Mauves as two telephone bidders battled it out over the £6m-9m estimate until the hammer fell at £9.6m.