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British Museum buys collection of 103 Hokusai drawings rediscovered in Paris
05 September 2020More than 100 rediscovered works by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) have been acquired by the British Museum.
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Klimt drawing from Beethoven Frieze makes £32,000 at Chiswick Auctions
31 August 2020A drawing by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) sold to a phone bidder for £32,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) at Chiswick Auctions last week.
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All about information sharing
31 August 2020Wider spectrum of buyers means presenting catalogue entries in greater detail can pay off
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Gustav Klimt sketch for the Beethoven Frieze emerges at Chiswick Auctions
25 August 2020A drawing by Gustav Klimt is being offered at Chiswick Auctions this week.
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Texas museum boosts Spanish art collection with five acquisitions from Madrid gallery
20 August 2020De la Mano Gallery in Madrid has sold five works to The Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas.
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Huge bidding battle as rediscovered Old Master military drawings take £125,000 at Sworders
27 July 2020A sensational competition emerged at Essex saleroom Sworders this week as a pair of Old Master drawings attracted 12 phone bidders as well as internet interest.
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The web shop window: Gilbert Scott signed drawing
13 July 2020Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
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Pick of the week: New peak for Wainwright as sketch of the fells climbs to £10,200 record
06 July 2020A record price of £10,200 was paid last month for a pen and ink sketch by fell-walking legend Alfred Wainwright at 1818 Auctioneers of Milnthorpe, Cumbria.
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Feininger before the oil paintings
06 July 2020Without the signature and dedication, this crayon and pencil drawing of 'Dorfhaus mit Baum und Randsteinen' (Village House with Tree and Rocks), coming up for sale at Neumeister in Munich on July 16, would be virtually impossible to attribute to its creator.
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Faces from Cecil Beaton’s book of the beautiful people
01 June 2020Turning heads at Bonhams Knightsbridge’s sale of Modern British art was a group of 22 pen and ink drawings by Cecil Beaton (1904-80) which formed part of the photographer’s 'The Book of Beauty' published in 1930.
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Illustrations: Potter and Shepard’s animal magic
26 May 2020One New York saleroom that has been notably active in the book market during the Covid restrictions is Doyle (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium). A recent sale included original illustrations for some well-known English children’s books.
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Old Masters migrate to online
20 April 2020Aguttes’ drawings auction was one of the only sales not to be postponed after the coronavirus alert.
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Salon du Dessin postponed as organisers reverse decision to go ahead
13 March 2020The prestigious Paris drawings fair ‘Salon du Dessin’ has been postponed until the end of May as the outbreak of coronavirus in Europe continues to have a major effect on the fairs calendar.
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Organisers say Salon du Dessin will go ahead despite new public events restrictions in France
10 March 2020The Paris drawings fair ‘Salon du Dessin’ is to go ahead as planned later this month, despite the new restrictions on public gatherings in France.
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Only existing drawing of Benin from before 1890 in demand at auction
02 March 2020Several surprises emerged in the tribal art sale held by Cologne auction house Lempertz (24% buyer’s premium) in a recent sale held in Brussels.
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Ingres portrait among sales at latest Master Drawings New York
13 February 2020A portrait by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) was among the sales at the latest staging of Master Drawings New York.
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Pick of the Week: Rediscovered Nelson portrait surfaces at sale
11 November 2019A hitherto unknown portrait of Nelson sold for three times the top estimate at the Charles Miller (24% buyer’s premium) auction on November 5.
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Rare Dante Gabriel Rossetti drawings of a father and son emerge at Oxford auction
18 October 2019Two crayon portraits of a father and son by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) have emerged for sale at Mallams of Oxford. They date from the last decade of the artist’s life and depict his doctor Thomas Gordon Hake and the latter’s son George Gordon Hake.
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Louvre buys sketches showing Napoleon’s seizure of art during Prussian campaign
08 October 2019A group of drawings and a sketchbook compiled by an artist assigned to Napoleon’s campaigns in Prussia and Poland in 1806-7 has been secured by the Louvre at a Toulouse auction.
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Kelly now enjoying the Lakes limelight
23 September 2019The prolific artist Percy Kelly (1918-93) was averse to the limelight and only a few of his paintings were shown publicly during his life. But a major retrospective at the Tullie House gallery Carlisle in 2015 and a birth centenary last year has helped raise the Cumbrian artist’s profile.
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