Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt

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Cork Street gallery seeks to widen buyer base by welcoming Bitcoin

06 July 2017

A Cork Street gallery has become the first in the UK to accept digital currencies such as Bitcoin.

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Labours of love from fieldwork

03 July 2017

Painter who fled London to create country scenes is now the subject of a Holborn show...

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European union is revived at Whitford Fine Art

03 July 2017

Whitford Fine Art’s ongoing exhibition Trans-Channel Crossing brings together works by four artists, two from the UK and two from Continental Europe, who lived and worked in both places after the Second World War.

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5 Questions: Marc and Marcia Harrison

03 July 2017

Book dealers Marc and Marcia Harrison were originally based in the UK but now live and work in the Netherlands. Alongside their business, Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, they continue to manage the annual PBFA International Fair in London.

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Franco-Brit alliance at Browse & Darby’s show

03 July 2017

Browse & Darby’s ongoing exhibition of British and French drawings, prints and sculpture includes Edgar Degas’ c.1987 Danseuse Assise, a pastel and charcoal on paper mounted on card.

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Music and dance make impromptu performance

03 July 2017

Kevis House Gallery’s exhibition 'Impromptu' features the works of Frances Hatch depicting musicians and dancers.

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Folk sits comfortably with contemporary

03 July 2017

Robert Young, the folk art dealer in Battersea, London, has launched an initiative which showcases the work of emerging contemporary artists and designers in his shop.

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Dealers report sales at Masterpiece London

03 July 2017

A set of four silver-gilt candlesticks priced at £350,000 by Koopman Rare Art, were among the top sales on the opening day of Masterpiece London last week.

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Shop talk: Steven Kirby

03 July 2017

In our continuing series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops in 2017, ATG talks to Steven Kirby. He opened Messingham Farm Shop & Café in Lincolnshire earlier this year, which includes an antiques centre in an historic school house.

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David Hockney prints among early sales at Masterpiece London

30 June 2017

The eighth edition of Masterpiece London launched this week to large crowds and sales across the board.

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TEFAF exhibitor list released for second annual New York edition

30 June 2017

The second TEFAF New York Fall features a total of 93 exhibitors at the Park Avenue Armory.

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Back to basics: Vauxhall art fair gets a re-boot

28 June 2017

The Vauxhall Art Car Boot has its next run at a new location: The Workshop in London’s Lambeth High Street on July 9, where it will also host a selection of vintage and antiques.

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Early sales at summer Olympia open 45th anniversary edition

27 June 2017

The 45th annual Art & Antiques Fair Olympia opened last night to bustling crowds and some early sales.

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Artist’s unconventional move from ZERO to hero

26 June 2017

Walter Leblanc’s (1932-86) paintings and sculptures create illusions of movement through the manipulation of unconventional media. Originally from Antwerp, Leblanc started exhibiting with the ZERO movement in the early 1960s.

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5 Questions: Elliott Cass

26 June 2017

Elliott Cass opened Elliott Cass Antique Jewellers, which he runs from home, in 1987 after working for Phillips auctioneers and Bentley and Skinner.

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Vagabond puts down fresh roots

26 June 2017

It is one week since doors opened to his new shop in the West Sussex village of Fittleworth and Joe Chaffer of Vagabond Antiques is in a whirl.

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Pictures tell a story at Bermondsey exhibition

26 June 2017

An exhibition of the photographs of Marilyn Stafford travelled from Lucy Bell Fine Art in East Sussex last weekend to reopen in London’s Art Bermondsey Project Space on Tuesday, June 27.

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Lowry lights up Clark Art's exhibition featuring northern art stars

26 June 2017

More than 600 people crowded into Clark Art in Cheshire on June 15 for the opening night of its annual exhibition on northern English painting.

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Ruff black and white work adds colour to St James’s

26 June 2017

Karen Taylor Fine Art’s exhibition of British drawings, watercolours and oils takes place from 30 June-July 7 at Illustrationcupboard Gallery in St James’s.

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New Charles Ede directors make a past perfect pair

26 June 2017

Charles Ede has bowed out of this week’s Masterpiece London in favour of the trio of TEFAFs. ATG meets two of the directors to find out how a synthesis of ancient and modern can benefit this long-standing family firm.