Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
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Folk art gallery gets visitors hands-on with egg painting workshop
13 April 2017South London gallery Modern Folk is hosting a series of Russian egg-painting workshops this week, the first of several interactive events planned at the dealership.
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Victorian fair painting sells at Antiques for Everyone
13 April 2017Charles Hunt’s painting “All the Fun of the Fair” is among the pieces that sold at the recent Antiques for Everyone Fair in Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC).
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Record crowds attend CADA Fair at Blenheim Palace
12 April 2017The sixth annual CADA Fair, organised by the Cotswold Antique Dealers Association (CADA), concluded its four-day run on April 2 after an edition marked by an increase in sales and visitor numbers.
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Early maiolica market tester at Sam Fogg
10 April 2017A ground-breaking Mayfair exhibition takes a rare focus on first examples of the maiolica technique.
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Judge says seized silver and ivory tea set won’t be returned
10 April 2017A judge has ruled against a London gallery over the seizure by UK Border Force of a Chinese silver tea set containing a tiny quantity of elephant ivory.
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They said what?! The week (3-9 April) in quotes from the art and antiques world
09 April 2017Here it is: your weekly dose of quotes from around the trade brought to you by ATG. Find out how auctioneers, dealers and other market luminaries reacted to CSK closing and a secret militaria collection.
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“Old bag” Margaret Thatcher drawing among leading lots at Sotheby’s Gerald Scarfe auction
07 April 2017A political cartoon showing the face of Margaret Thatcher emerging from the side of her handbag was one of the top lots at the Sotheby’s London auction of Gerald Scarfe’s drawings this week.
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5 Questions: Justin Evershed-Martin
05 April 2017Justin Evershed-Martin is the former director of Mallett who has launched a business specialising in 20th century decorative art and furniture. This week he exhibits at the Decorative Art Antiques and Textiles Fair in Battersea with a selection of privately sourced pieces all priced under £8000 (see right).
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Wide world of the Welsh art market
05 April 2017Two exhibitions mark the 25th anniversary of Welsh art specialist Martin Tinney Gallery.
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BADA fair edges into a new era
05 April 2017This year’s event was another step on the organisation’s road to modernisation
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Museum purchase
05 April 2017This William and Mary walnut marquetry cabinet, right, was recently bought by an international museum for a mid six- figure sum.
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Trade alert: watch out for cyber crime
05 April 2017Firms urged to be aware of risk after string of email invoice frauds
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Late Turner masterpiece to appear on the market for the first time in 50 years at Sotheby’s London auction
04 April 2017A large, late masterpiece by JMW Turner (1775-1851), one of few such works still in private hands, appears at Sotheby’s this July with an estimate of £15-25m.
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ILAB calls for entries to prestigious bibliography prize
03 April 2017The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) has put out a call for entrants to the 2018 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography.
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Rare “Invisible Man” vintage film poster soars to $274,850 at Heritage Auctions
03 April 2017A poster for the classic film The Invisible Man soared to four times its low estimate at a recent Heritage Auctions sale in Dallas.
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Christopher Lee’s collection of pens to be auctioned at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury
03 April 2017A consignment of 16 pens from the collection of Christopher Lee, the distinguished British actor who played Dracula in nine films, is to go under the hammer at Dreweatts and Bloomsbury.
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A modern look at traditional India
01 April 2017Crane Kalman’s upcoming exhibition Jethro Buck – Axis Mundi features recent work by a contemporary artist interested in Indian miniature painting.
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‘Amazingly positive’ after six-figure sale at BADA fair
01 April 2017An imposing sight on the stand of London furniture dealer Godson & Coles, this early 18th century japanned bureau cabinet sold for a six-figure sum at the BADA 2017 fair.
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New and familiar faces for Masterpiece
01 April 2017Masterpiece London has revealed the list of 149 dealers to stand at its eighth annual fair taking place this summer, a similar number to 2016.