Latest News Articles by Frances Allitt
Dealer Ronald Phillips offers 35 key objects in Chippendale selling exhibition at London gallery and Masterpiece this summer
26 March 2018Ronald Phillips will host an exhibition of Chippendale furniture at its Bruton Street gallery and at Masterpiece London to mark the tercentenary of his birth.
Dealer shows special First World War commemorative pottery display at Antiques for Everyone fair
26 March 2018Bac To Basic Antiques brings a special display of First World War commemorative pottery to this edition of the Antiques for Everyone fair.
Long-standing fair opens special section to offer a lower-cost chance to make sales
26 March 2018The venerable Antiques for Everyone (AfE) fair is still open to change in its 33rd year. The next edition runs from April 5-8 at Birmingham’s NEC, hosting around 200 dealers who offer items to fit a variety of tastes, functions and wallets.
5 Questions: Julian Eade
26 March 2018Julian Eade deals in antique pottery and porcelain. He specialises in Doulton, particularly artist-signed pieces, as well as Royal Worcester, Minton, Coalport and other factories. He stands at the upcoming edition of Antiques for Everyone.
Trio based Down South make fresh moves
26 March 2018Gallery openings have declined steadily during the last decade, according to the recent The Art Market 2018 report. In 2017, it says, around 87% fewer new galleries were established than in 2007. But that’s only part of the story.
Shop talk – Antiques and Chic
26 March 2018In our continuing series looking through the keyhole of ‘bricks and mortar’ shops and centres, ATG talks to Nicola Crooks who runs Antiques and Chic with her husband Nick.
Dealer Mark Goodger takes a good look back
26 March 2018This year marks a 20th anniversary for Northamptonshire dealer Mark Goodger. He first established the business Hampton Antiques with his wife Sara in 1998 and deals in antique boxes and accessories from the 18th-21st centuries.
They said what?! The week (19-25 March, 2018) in quotes from the art and antiques world
25 March 2018In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others.
Browse & Darby stages exhibition of William Coldstream paintings
24 March 2018This week, Cork Street gallery Browse & Darby opened a loan exhibition of the works of British realist painter William Coldstream (1908-87) this week.
Dalí’s iconic lobster telephone is export barred
23 March 2018Arts minister Michael Ellis has placed a temporary export bar on Salvador Dalí’s Lobster Telephone (White Aphrodisiac).
London dealer Robert Young buys viral #KarmaCycle sign with fellow folk art dealer from Brooklyn
22 March 2018When a Brooklyn resident had her bicycle stolen her response caught the attention of a London dealer.
Unprecedented collection of maps of Japan offered by Daniel Crouch Rare Books in Tokyo
21 March 2018Daniel Crouch Rare Books offers what is dubbed the largest collection of maps of Japan ever to come on the open market at this week’s Tokyo Book Fair.
Hauser & Wirth’s collaboration with TV historian Mary Beard recreated in Colchester gallery
20 March 2018A gallery in Colchester is to host a version of an exhibition first staged by commercial gallery Hauser & Wirth last year.
TEFAF Maastricht 2018: Crowd control is just the ticket
19 March 2018A change to TEFAF Maastricht’s opening day policy has been better for business, exhibitors tell ATG as we check the mood from the floor during the 2018 fair.
Watercolour of ‘Van Helsing’s hotel’ to star at BADA 2018
12 March 2018Fine Art dealer Atelier offers a painting of the Great Eastern Railway Company’s Liverpool Street Hotel & Abercorn Rooms in London as a highlight of its stand at BADA 2018.
French gallery focuses on the Italians who painted in Paris
12 March 2018Paris was an important destination for artists in the 19th and 20th centuries and the city gathered in creatives from all across Europe.
Exhibition at New York's Throckmorton Fine Art celebrates early developments in Chinese Buddhist sculpture
12 March 2018New York gallery show coincides with and adds to the Asian art week of events...
5 Questions: Gerald Weinpolter
12 March 2018Gerald Weinpolter is based in Vienna and specialises in Austrian painting.
Show reveals abstract views in St Ives
12 March 2018In its current exhibition, Cornwall gallery Belgrave St Ives features the works of artists, many of whom are not usually associated with the coastal town in which the business specialises.
TEFAF 2018: ‘Self-regulate to avoid regulation,’ TEFAF Maastricht chief tells delegates
09 March 2018The art market needs to address its issues around transparency if it wants to avoid enforced regulation, TEFAF Maastricht delegates were told this morning (March 9).