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Previews: Up to £500
18 March 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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Generating younger buyers
18 March 2017Attracting new and younger buyers is the thinking behind Tennants’ (18.5% buyer’s premium) modern and contemporary art sales. Held three times a year, the auctions offer art by a range of painters and sculptors at affordable levels to encourage new buyers into the market, while also appealing to established collectors.
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The 18th century Dublin shines in 21st century sale
18 March 2017Prints of Dublin as it would have looked in the late 18th century starred in an interiors sale held in the same modern-day city at Adam’s (20% buyer’s premium).
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Minorca port scenes buck today’s market
18 March 2017Owing to today’s minimalist taste, Continental views of 19th century ports are not an easy sell. This pair of canvases proved otherwise when they topped Thomson Roddick’s (15% buyer’s premium) March 18 sale in Carlisle, Cumbria.
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Modern life is not at all rubbish
11 March 2017Forget the album: Great Bardfield artists help to create a sale sense of Cool Britannia in Essex
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Irish couple stand out in Kent
04 March 2017Dillon painting of Inishmaan quay is surprise find among artist’s studio collection
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Stagecoach scenes stand and deliver
25 February 2017Equestrian works remain firm favourites at auction for a handful of faithful collectors
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Stage set for theatrical flourishes
18 February 2017Interior decorators among the bidders taking a fancy to West End producer’s artworks
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How to beat any January bid blues
11 February 2017Tight belts normally dominate this time of year but Somerset auctioneers see an opportunity
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Fighter ace soars to set a record
04 February 2017Portrait of Second World War pilot leads an impressive sale formation of military pictures
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Equestrian art kept on tight rein
28 January 2017Auction house sets realistic estimates in a market much changed since strong 1980s running
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Winning a £18,000 battle for The War of the Worlds
28 January 2017ORIGINAL posters for the first release of the 1953 Paramount sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds are something of a holy grail in the collecting market.
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International brigade advances
21 January 2017With Mod Brits making the headlines, works from the wider world also impress in the regions
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Lakeland Fell scales sale heights
14 January 2017Landscape painter lauded by LS Lowry makes the running among local artists in Cumbria
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A mighty Mod Brit market
31 December 2016Records tumble in trio of main sales held in the major London rooms
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Rare Nelson miniature portrait surfaces and sells at auction for £14,000
29 November 2016A small and previously unrecorded portrait of Lord Nelson sold for £14,000 at Charles Miller’s latest Maritime and Scientific sale in West Kensington.
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London antiquities sales set sail with Bonhams offering ancient Egyptian model boat
24 November 2016Specialist sales of antiquities in London kick off at Bonhams later this month with a 192-lot auction in New Bond Street on November 30.
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Cedric Morris blossoms in the saleroom with two auction records set in 48 hours
15 April 2016In the space of just 48 hours, two paintings by the self-taught Welsh artist and horticulturalist Cedric Morris (1889-1982) raised the auction bar for his work to a new level.
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Sandby tops Hooton Pagnell dispersal
10 December 2015Topping Bonhams Knightsbridge’s marathon nine-hour sale of items from Hooton Pagnell Hall in South Yorkshire was this 20½in x 2ft 5in (52 x 76cm) watercolour and gouache work by Paul Sandby (1730-1809).
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Helleu portrait emerges at Sworders
07 December 2015Paul César Helleu (1859-1927) is best known for his Belle Epoque portraits of beautiful society women.