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Christie’s to offer important Old Master drawings collection
27 February 2014Christie’s has announced a major consignment of Old Master drawings which will be offered over the next two years in a series of sales in London, Amsterdam and Paris.
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Constable drawings emerge at Cambridge sale
20 February 2014This pencil drawing by John Constable inscribed ‘Binfiled Decr. 6th 1816’ is believed to have made when the artist was staying in Binfield in Berkshire whilst returning from his honeymoon in Dorset with his wife Maria.
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Voysey drawings for Perrycroft project sell in Stroud
05 August 2013Herefordshire was judged a little too remote for most Midlands industrialists seeking a rural retreat in the Arts and Crafts idiom.
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Regatta drawing sails to new high for Lowry work on paper
31 May 2013A pencil drawing by LS Lowry (1887-1976) set an auction record for a work on paper by the artist this week, selling for £175,000.
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19th century scrap album brings intriguing illustrations to light
14 March 2013Consigned to Rosebery’s two-day sale in West Norwood, London on March 19-20 is a late 19th century scrap album containing some 50 illustrations.
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Philip Webb cartoons for William Morris tapestry – the pride of Hodson collection
05 March 2013It was during negotiations to secure the future of the Kelmscott Press after the death of William Morris in 1896 that Laurence William Hodson (1863-1933) acquired four watercolour and pencil designs by Philip Webb (1831-1915).
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Price shows why Conor collectors have every reason to dance a jig
10 January 2013The highly distinctive works on paper by William Conor (1884-1968) documenting working-class life in Ulster come up pretty regularly at auction, mainly because there are simply a lot of them around.
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Raphael drawing tops Old Master series taking £26.5m at Sotheby’s
06 December 2012It took over 15 minutes to sell, but when the gavel finally came down at £26.5m the Raphael from Chatsworth had become the second most expensive Old Master ever sold at auction – and the priciest drawing of all time.
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Landseer’s dog at debut sale
08 November 2012This pencil drawing by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73) is of his own dog Brutus and dates from the mid 19th century.
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Raphael drawing from Chatsworth to be sold at Sotheby’s
06 September 2012Later this year, Sotheby’s will be offering three valuable works of art from the Devonshire collection at Chatsworth House including one of the best Raphael drawings remaining in private hands.
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Norman Mailer manuscripts at Bloomsbury Auctions
18 July 2012Bloomsbury Auctions will offer 42 original pencil sketches by American novelist Norman Mailer at their July 19 sale in London.
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Damien Hirst skull drawing at Gloucestershire sale
17 May 2012Chorley’s of Prinknash Abbey Park in Gloucestershire are offering this sketch by Damien Hirst at their sale on May 24.
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Views from a unique Victorian honeymoon
10 April 2012IN February we revealed how Queen Victoria was an accomplished artist, but now her daughter’s skills have been highlighted by a Surrey auction.
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Private bidders challenge trade dominance at Freud and Hockney sales
10 March 2012David Hockney (b.1937) and the late Lucian Freud (1922-2011) have captured the public imagination at the moment.
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Augustus John cache with celebrity status
06 September 2010A COLLECTION of Augustus John drawings, consigned by the family of Dame Elizabeth Taylor, will be sold by a West London auction house on September 28.
Millais sketches withdrawn
23 August 2010FOUR sketches by Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, found tucked inside covers of Led Zeppelin LPs, have been withdrawn from sale at Chilcotts auctioneers in Tiverton, Devon, because of a “misunderstanding over ownership” according to the auctioneers.
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Early Millais drawings found inside Led Zeppelin LP
09 August 2010Led Zeppelin, Robert Burns and a 14-year-old John Everett Millais might seem unlikely bedfellows. But a group of four pencil drawings which have surfaced at the Devon auctioneers Chilcotts of Tiverton appear to link the three.
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Export ban for £26m Raphael drawing
08 March 2010Culture minister Margaret Hodge has placed a temporary export ban on Raphael's Head of a Muse after ruling that an attempt should be made to keep the £26m drawing in the UK.
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Lear’s nonsense drawings sold in Chichester
26 October 2009THE original drawings that Edward Lear made for his 1846 A Book of Nonsense are now rare, and those that exist are for the most part held in institutional collections.
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Was this why Byron was mad, bad and dangerous to know?
01 June 2009TURN the leaves of ‘A sketchbook belonging to Lady Julia Conyers...’ and you will find some 80 drawings and watercolours by Lady Julia and her society friends that are for the most part unexceptional and predictable.
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