Latest News Articles by Alex Capon
Warhol and Degas auction records fall in US
16 May 2022Christie’s flagship sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York produced a running total of $1.25bn (£1.02m) including premium from four evening auctions last week.
Vienna sale sets third-highest Titian price
16 May 2022A late version of the Penitent Magdalen by Titian (c.1485- 1576) that surfaced at Austrian saleroom Dorotheum has sold for €4.1m (£3.5m).
Noel Gallagher's guitar and a Louis XVI style commode are among five lots to watch
16 May 2022With estimates from £150-500,000, here are five previews of items coming up this week.
Rembrandt prints: State of the art makes the biggest impression
16 May 2022Negotiating the sometimes complex world of prints by the 17th century Dutch Master
Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe makes second highest auction price of all time
10 May 2022One of five different coloured versions of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe silkscreen from 1964 fetched the second highest auction price of all time when it sold at Christie’s New York last night.
Dunkirk 1918 scene sets Ernest Procter record
09 May 2022Setting a record price for the Newlyn artist Ernest Procter (1886-1935), a previously lost First World War scene generated strong competition at Lyon & Turnbull’s latest Modern Made auction.
European art – Make a continental connection
09 May 2022Focus on 19th century works by continental European artists sold recently
Market-fresh Tusquets masterpiece emerges
09 May 2022A Spanish picture that had been in the same family for at least the past 120 years was among the works bringing demand at Bonhams’ (27.5/25/20/14.5% buyer’s premium) latest sale of 19th Century and British Impressionist Art.
Nino’s dawn rises to take a decent price in Oxford
09 May 2022Among the works by 19th century Italian artists generating interest at recent UK auctions was a landscape by Giovanni ‘Nino’ Costa (1826-1903).
Pór result, healthy sum
09 May 2022A woodland scene by Hungarian painter Bertalan Pór (1880-1964) caught the eye of a number of bidders at a Cotswolds saleroom.
Record for sporting memorabilia as Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup shirt sells for £6m at Sotheby’s
05 May 2022Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup shirt worn in the quarter final against England set a record for any piece of sporting memorabilia when it took £6m at Sotheby’s.
Softer side of the Newlyn community
02 May 2022When people think of the Newlyn School, most commonly it is pictures of Cornish fishermen, farmers and miners that spring to mind.
How bazaar – Roberts Cairo scene
02 May 2022Street view by British artist offered in Orientalist sale sells at four times estimate
Cazabon winds his way back to Trinidad
02 May 2022In February 2020 Lancashire saleroom Gerrards (20% buyer’s premium) sold a watercolour by Trinidad’s first internationally known artist, Michel-Jean Cazabon (1813-88), for £24,000 (see News, ATG No 2430).
Pick of the week: Gill depicts early days of Port Adelaide
25 April 2022An early view of Port Adelaide in Australia drew a flurry of overseas interest when it appeared at a recent auction in Massachusetts.
Africa art on the rise
25 April 2022Investors are targeting the Post-war and Contemporary market for high returns as inflation soars and uncertainty reigns
Hockney drawings and prints bring demand in the North and South
25 April 2022The expansion in prices for David Hockney (b.1937) has affected not just his large and famous works which now sell for multi-millions but also his smaller drawings and printed works that fall further down the price scale.
Surf’s up for Maggi Hambling
25 April 2022A small work by Maggi Hambling (b.1945) was among the pieces of Modern and Contemporary art attracting interest recently at Parker Fine Art Auctions (25% buyer’s premium).
Gore captures island charm
25 April 2022Dreweatts’ (25% buyer’s premium) Modern & Contemporary Art sale on March 16 was led by some distance by the rare lead Mother and Child sculpture by Henry Moore (1898-1986) which was bid to £320,000 (see News, ATG No 2535).
McPhail auction record fleshed out to £20,500
25 April 2022Interest from both trade and private buyers helped set an auction record for Paul McPhail (b.1966) at Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest sale of Modern and Contemporary art.