Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Modern business model for 1793 Gallery
13 August 2018Kate Moss – or at least an arresting image of her by Los Angeles street artist Mr Brainwash – is coming to a Cotswolds exhibition to launch 1793 Gallery.
Fair lays down tribal landmarks
13 August 2018Anniversary of Cook voyage and a book 15 years in the making underpin London event...
Mayfair gallery keeps it simple with Deco desks
13 August 2018Simplicity and geometry are key to the works of Eugène Printz, one of the Parisian practitioners of Art Deco design.
Mug shows trouble at the mill in 1878
13 August 2018Riots broke out in Bury and Blackburn in May 1878 as cotton mill workers protested their low wages. The initially peaceful action escalated as employees attacked the factory and local constabulary, eventually looting and destroying the mill owner’s house.
A travelling passport for Martinware birds
13 August 2018Gloucestershire-based British art pottery dealer Alison Davey of AD Antiques has created a series of ‘passports’ for Martin Brothers’ birds.
5 Questions: Francesca Fiumano of Fiumano Clase
13 August 2018London gallery Fiumano Clase formed in 2017 when dealers Francesca Fiumano and Andrés Clase merged their respective contemporary art dealerships. Its next exhibition, BOOM, is a solo show of works by Roger Holtom. Here, we talk to Fiumano.
They said what?! The week (August 6-12) in quotes from the art and antiques market
12 August 2018Eclectic collections, sinister stories and high-value lots all star in this edition of our art and antiques market quotes roundup.
Mayfair dealer curates landscape exhibition from Frank Cohen collection at Fortnum & Mason
11 August 2018Robert Upstone, a Modern British art dealer and former director of the Fine Art Society, has curated this year’s collaboration between upmarket food purveyor Fortnum & Mason and leading art collector Frank Cohen.
Spitfire flypasts and vintage makeovers: New festival at Royal Air Force Museum Cosford launchs this weekend
10 August 2018A new Vintage and Handmade Festival launches this weekend at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford in Shropshire.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's cabinet for ‘Miss Cranston’ goes under the hammer in Cambridge
08 August 2018A cabinet made by Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh for Catherine Cranston, a Victorian tea room entrepreneur, goes under the hammer at Willingham Auctions this week.
Movers and Shakers: the latest arts and antiques appointments
06 August 2018Our latest look at new roles in the art and antiques trade.
Clarion call: Winter Olympia to go ahead after sufficient sign-ups
06 August 2018The Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia has been saved and will return this year in a new format thanks to commitment from more than 50 dealers.
Golfing memorabilia dealers get into the swing of things
06 August 2018The set of flicker books published c.1930 titled 'Drive and Mashie', 'Brassie and Iron' and 'Out the Rough and Putt', were once used as teaching aids for golfers.
Latest London Art Week shows buyers are looking for personality in their portrait purchases
06 August 2018Eye-catching, head-turning and mouth-watering: it was the human form, from ancient statuettes to modern portraits, that caught buyers’ attention at the most recent edition of London Art Week.
Meissen teapot among top sales at 'A Collectors’ Paradise'
06 August 2018This early Meissen teapot and cover was among the stand-out sales at the joint selling exhibition 'A Collectors’ Paradise' held at Brian Haughton Gallery in St James’s.
Joseph Farquharson and Thomas Gainsborough works among highlights of McEwan Gallery's summer show
06 August 2018August can be a quiet time for exhibition-goers as dealers head off home or on holiday following the busier days of June and July. But some galleries take the summer as an opportunity to display an assortment of stock.
5 Questions: Bill Clark
06 August 2018Bill Clark runs Clark Art, which specialises in LS Lowry and modern British art, in Cheshire.
They said what?! The week (July 30 – August 5) in quotes from the art and antiques market
05 August 2018“It was our duty to try to save the collection as a whole…” In this edition of our weekly quotes roundup, representatives of the art and antiques market talk about books, bibles and buying for Britain.
Fiumano Clase stages exhibition of landscapes by Sky Arts competition artist Lucy Smallbone
04 August 2018London contemporary art gallery Fiumano Clase is staging and exhibition of works by Lucy Smallbone, one of the contestants in the Sky Arts series ‘Landscape Artist of the Year’.
Winter Olympia saved thanks to dealer commitment
03 August 2018‘The Winter Art & Antiques Fair Olympia’ has been saved and will return this year in a new format thanks to dealer commitment.