Fine Art
Fine art is a staple of the dealing and auctioneering industry, featuring works ranging from Medieval art to traditional Old Masters, and right through to cutting-edge Contemporary art.
While oil paintings represent a large part of the sector, other mediums adopted by artists across the ages include drawings, watercolours, prints and photographs.
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Actor Peter Barkworth also had a private passion for collecting
20 May 2024Despite Peter Barkworth’s very public profile his art collecting was a much more personal matter
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Art innovator Richardson’s collection comes to auction
20 May 2024Marion Richardson (1892-1946), a pioneer of the child art movement, was described as ‘one of the most influential art innovators of our time’.
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News in brief including a large George Stubbs equine painting at Christie's
20 May 2024A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including news of George Stubbs' 'Mares and Foals' being offered at auction with a £7m-10m estimate.
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Impressionism anniversary marked in major St James's exhibition
20 May 2024Gallery with family connections stages a show 150 years on from Paris exhibition where the art movement began
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Five Questions with art dealer Simon Rastall
20 May 2024Simon Rastall, one of the exhibitors at the recent Annual Buxton Decorative Antiques & Art Fair, runs Rastall Art, which specialises in 20th century paintings.
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Top stories this week including news of a British watercolour flying over estimate
19 May 2024The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a ‘British School’ waterfall scene making 60 times estimate
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Leonora Carrington’s surrealist ‘masterpiece’ sets major auction record at Sotheby's
18 May 2024Setting a record for any British-born female artist at auction, a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) drew a lengthy bidding battle at Sotheby’s New York on May 15, taking the artist into a new league commercially.
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Early Dod Procter portrait turns heads at West Sussex auction
16 May 2024A bidding battle broke out at Bellmans in West Sussex yesterday for an early and engaging portrait by Dod Procter (1890-1972), setting the second highest auction price ever recorded for the artist.
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Monumental Stubbs picture comes to Christie’s Old Masters summer auction
14 May 2024One of the largest pictures that George Stubbs (1724-1806) ever painted is coming to auction with a £7m-10m estimate.
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Pick of the week: Gillray in his own time and place
13 May 2024Remarkably, although a very successful and popular artist, no accounts of the work of the Georgian caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) were published in England during his lifetime.
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Rare work by English surrealist Pulham appears at Newcastle auction
13 May 2024A painting by the early English surrealist Peter Rose Pulham (1910-1956) will be offered at Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland later this month.
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Colour plate books: Around the world with Norman Bobins
13 May 2024ATG takes a whistlestop tour of the globe via the greatest recent collection of colour plate travel and costume books
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Louis Comfort Tiffany gossip is talk of the town as painting emerges in New York auction
13 May 2024An oil on canvas of a German scene was probably on display at Louis Comfort Tiffany's Long Island home, sold in the 1940s.
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Delve into the darker side of Old Master paintings at auction
13 May 2024Current collecting taste means that Old Master paintings exploring the darker side of the human character can often find more admirers than more typical subject matter of Georgian gentleman or European landscapes. Works of the grotesque are particularly popular.
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Bernini stars in first Dickinson sculpture exhibition
13 May 2024Dickinson holds its first exhibition in the field with Renaissance artists going under the spotlight
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Klimt as a cheaper buy
13 May 2024Like all artists born in the 19th century, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) underwent a traditional academic training, studying at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna) from 1876-83.
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Five questions with Ilka Gansera-Levegue
13 May 2024Ilka Gansera-Levegue of Art & Horse Racing Gallery in Newmarket. She will be exhibiting at Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair from May 17-19.
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Icon boosted by fantastic ornate frame
13 May 2024The sale at Hargesheimer (28% buyer’s premium) on April 18 included an outstanding Russian icon and oklad by Orest Kurlyukov.
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How Whistler became a prolific and powerful printmaker
13 May 2024When James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) arrived in Paris in 1855 determined to pursue a career as an artist, printmaking was experiencing a revival.
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