Latest News Articles by Anne Crane
Debussy the composer by artist friend Blanche
27 October 2021A portrait of the composer Claude Debussy painted by the French artist Jacques-Emile Blanche (1861-1942) met with a flurry of phone bids when it came up for sale on October 12 in Paris.
Panel from a monumental Parisian wallpaper work
27 October 2021Early wallpapers and wall coverings are specialities of Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz.
Follies add serious date weight
27 October 2021This 19th century China Trade painting was a highlight of the sale held by Ivoire Besançon (22% buyer’s premium) in France on October 17.
Dollar fits the bill
27 October 2021Among the works that the Old Master picture dealership Galerie de Bayser, a Fine Arts Paris regular, will be showing at the fair is this equestrian portrait by Jean-Léon Gerome (1824-1904) of the famous thoroughbred Dollar.
Godchaux’s animal attraction
27 October 2021Xavier Eeckhout specialises in animalier sculpture and for Fine Arts Paris the Parisian dealer will be focusing the spotlight on the works of Roger Godchaux (1878-1958) an artist whose catalogue raisonné he has just completed.
Thirst for knowledge
27 October 2021This Old Master painting by the 18th century Italian landscape artist Andrea Locatelli (1695-1741) will be shown at Fine Arts Paris by L’Horizon Chimérique from Bordeaux.
Join the tribe
27 October 2021Non-European ethnographic art is a one of the new categories at Fine Arts Paris, represented by Patrick and Ondine Mesdagh from Brussels who will be showing a selection of pieces from four continents.
Stonemasons struck gold in house discovery
18 October 2021Coin hoard dispersed in white-glove auction.
Sherlock Holmes on the comeback trail
18 October 2021This handwritten page from the manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles will feature at Heritage Auctions.
Breguet astronomical quarter repeating watch
18 October 2021On October 22 Skinner in Massachusetts is holding a sale of watches and timepieces from the estate of David G Newsom.
Cuffs that could not hold Houdini
18 October 2021On October 30 in Chicago Potter & Potter is holding the first part of the Ken Klosterman collection of magic-related artefacts.
Mirror is Printz charming
18 October 2021An ensemble of furnishings by the French designer/decorator Eugène Printz (1879- 1948) that were created in the 1930s for a villa in Casablanca, Morocco, will feature at Briscadieu Bordeaux in the French city on November 6.
Schwitters in the mix
18 October 2021A number of French auction houses will be holding sales of Modern and Contemporary art to coincide with FIAC, the annual Paris fair devoted to Contemporary art, which takes place this year from October 21-24.
Super English delftware selection sells stateside
11 October 2021Adam and Eve charger takes top price in collection amassed by American couple
Jasper Johns and Alan Reynolds feature at Doyle sale in New York
04 October 2021Doyle in New York is holding several sales that feature aspects of Post-war and Contemporary art over the next few weeks.
Across the rooftops
04 October 2021This painting by Jean Hélion (1904-87) will feature in the sale of furniture, objects and paintings at Copages Auction at Drouot in Paris on October 15.
The 47th FIAC fair finds a new Paris venue
04 October 2021FIAC, the Foire Internationale D’Art Contemporain, is Paris’ long-running annual fair devoted to Contemporary Art, staged every autumn.
Jean Dufy double act at Cannes auction
04 October 2021Two mid-20th century paintings by the French artist Jean Dufy (1888-1964) were among the highlights of the sale of Impressionist and Modern art, Old Masters, sculpture, ceramics and decorative arts at Besch Cannes Auction (21.25% buyer’s premium).
Henry Moore rocks up to Connecticut
04 October 2021Two works by Henry Moore (1898-1986) will feature in the sale at Shannon’s in Milford, Connecticut, on October 28.
Volpi flies the flag
04 October 2021A highlight of the Contemporary Art sale at Aguttes in Neuilly on October 25 will be this large 7ft 6in x 2ft 11in (2.3m x 89cm) painting in tempera on canvas by Alfredo Volpi (1896-1988).