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.
Van Dyck given more time
24 February 2014The fundraising campaign to buy Van Dyck’s final self-portrait for the National Portrait Gallery will continue into the summer.
![14-02-20-2130PV01H Constable Cheffins.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1595/14-02-20-2130pv01h-constable-cheffins.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558430000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a03)
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.
![14-02-18-2129NE02A Francis Bacon Christies.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1837/14-02-18-2129ne02a-francis-bacon-christies.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558430000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a03)
Bacon helps set record for London Contemporary series
18 February 2014The Contemporary art sales in London last week raised a hammer total of £254.6m, a record for an auction series in this category in the capital.
![14-02-12-2129PV01G duncan grant.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1729/14-02-12-2129pv01g-duncan-grant.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558460000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a06)
Modern British art collection at Boningtons
12 February 2014A single-owner collection of Modern British art will be offered at Boningtons’ sale of fine art, antiques and Asian works of art in Loughton, Essex on February 26.
![14-02-10-2128NE01A Juan Gris.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1841/14-02-10-2128ne01a-juan-gris.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558450000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a05)
Colourful Gris tops London Impressionist & Modern series
10 February 2014Leading the latest series of Impressionist & Modern auctions in London, a textbook Cubist still life by Juan Gris (1887-1927) sold for £31m at Christie’s.
![14-02-10-2128NE05A Stephan Welz auction.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1603/14-02-10-2128ne05a-stephan-welz-auction.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558450000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a05)
Looking ahead to South African art sales
10 February 2014Last October, South Africa House in Trafalgar Square, London hosted an exhibition of artworks in the image of, and inspired by, Nelson Mandela.
![14-02-03-2127NE0XA Rothschild Prayerbook.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1968/14-02-03-2127ne0xa-rothschild-prayerbook.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558460000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a06)
Illuminated manuscript takes $12m at Christie’s
03 February 2014The book of hours known as The Rothschild Prayerbook sold for $12m (£7.55m) at Christie’s in New York.
![14-02-03-2127NE05A Robert Burns portrait.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1950/14-02-03-2127ne05a-robert-burns-portrait.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558460000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a06)
Lost Burns portrait goes home – for the time being
03 February 2014A lost portrait of Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth – thought to be the only one taken from life left in private hands – is to go on loan for display in the poet’s final home in Dumfries.
Dadd watercolour – £200 on eBay
03 February 2014A British collector has reportedly bought a watercolour, ‘A lady with a Minstrel’ from 1874, by the Victorian artist Richard Dadd on eBay for £200.
![14-01-30-2126AM01A charles hemy.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1922/14-01-30-2126am01a-charles-hemy.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558480000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a08)
Marine picture in Somerset helps to buoy up the start of the season
30 January 2014The art market in the New Year traditionally gets off to a rather slow start with just a scattering of fairs, dealer shows and auctions taking place in the first half of January.
![14-01-23-2125PV01B chagall print.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/1940/14-01-23-2125pv01b-chagall-print.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558490000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a09)
Modern prints offered online
23 January 2014Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and Andy Warhol are among the names included in a European vendor’s collection of 74 prints and editions offered at online-only outfit The Auction Room’s next sale.
![13-12-18-2122AB05A Jane Austen portrait.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/2173/13-12-18-2122ab05a-jane-austen-portrait.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558950000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a55)
Jane Austen portrait sells at Sotheby’s for £135,000
18 December 2013The portrait of Jane Austen by James Andrews that will appear on the new £10 note in 2017 was offered by Sotheby’s as the star turn of their traditional end-of-year English literature and history sale.
![13-12-09-2118NE01A Bonhams Fragonard.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/6515/13-12-09-2118ne01a-bonhams-fragonard.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558960000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a56)
Fragonard is £15.2m top-seller of London’s Old Master series
09 December 2013The vast collection of the late Dr Gustav Rau provided the top lot of London’s latest series of Old Master auctions as a portrait by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) took a record £15.2m at Bonhams.
![13-11-29-2119NE04A Konchalovsky.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/2369/13-11-29-2119ne04a-konchalovsky.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558930000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a53)
Private deal pre-empts £42m Russian art series highlights
29 November 2013Even before the latest Russian art sales in London started this week, the enormous sums of money being spent in this sector became evident when Sotheby’s announced the private sale of their two star lots in advance of their auctions.
![13-11-25-2118NE04A stanley spencer.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/2147/13-11-25-2118ne04a-stanley-spencer.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558930000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a53)
Spencer sets new Mod Brit record
25 November 2013An auction record was set at Christie’s last week when Sir Stanley Spencer's (1891-1959) 'Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta: Conversation Between Punts' sold at £5.3m.
![13-11-15-2116AM01B Robert Healy.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/2190/13-11-15-2116am01b-robert-healy.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558930000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a53)
Portraits produced by a ‘colour-blind’ artist draw bidders at Slane Castle
15 November 2013One of lots drawing a decent competition at the Adam’s sale at Slane Castle last month was a pair of chalk portraits by Robert Healy (c.1743-71).
![13-11-14-2117NE04C Warhol Car Crash.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/2155/13-11-14-2117ne04c-warhol-car-crash.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558940000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a54)
Warhol’s Car Crash helps set highest total ever for a Sotheby’s auction
14 November 2013The large volumes of money being spent in the Contemporary art market continued at Sotheby’s last night as the auctioneers posted their highest ever total for a single sale.
![13-11-13 2117NE03X Christies new york.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/2154/13-11-13-2117ne03x-christies-new-york.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558940000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a54)
Bacon sets new all-time saleroom high at $127m
13 November 2013Saleroom history was made in New York last night as Francis Bacon’s 'Three Studies Of Lucian Freud' set a new high for any lot ever sold at auction.
£17m statue stand-off as London councils persist in rival claims
13 November 2013The ownership dispute over a Henry Moore sculpture dubbed Old Flo looks set to rumble on despite one side claiming victory and making plans to sell it.
![13-11-08-2116NE03A Alberto Giacometti.jpg](https://gazette-eu-west2.azureedge.net/media/2159/13-11-08-2116ne03a-alberto-giacometti.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131462558940000000&updated=08%2f03%2f2017+16%3a44%3a54)
Giacometti at $44.5m lifts mood amid mixed fortunes in New York
08 November 2013A thin head by Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was one of a handful of market-fresh works that helped lift the latest Impressionist & Modern art sales in New York.
![the saleroom](/images/Top-Banner-300-x-93px_v2.jpg)
- Adam Partridge
- Studio Ceramics
- 19 Jul 2024 - 10:00 AM
- Adam Partridge London
- Antiques & Fine Art
- 23 Jul 2024 - 10:00 AM
- McTear's
- Antiques & Interiors
- 25 Jul 2024 - 09:30 AM
- W&H Peacock
- Antique Furniture, Collectables, Toys, Jewellery & Watches
- 02 Aug 2024 - 09:30 AM
- Unique Auctions
- Antiques, Jewellery, Furniture & Collectables
- 03 Aug 2024 - 09:00 AM
- Adam Partridge Devon
- Fine Art, Antiques & Collectables
- 05 Aug 2024 - 10:00 AM
![the saleroom](/images/Bottom-Banner-300-x-93px_v2.jpg)
Categories
-
- Arms, Armour & Militaria
- Bank notes
- Books & Periodicals
- Cameras & Camera Equipment
- Classic Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia
- Coins
- Collectables
- Entertainment Memorabilia
- Kitchenalia
- Maps
- Models, Toys, Dolls & Games
- Musical Instruments & Memorabilia
- Scientific Instruments
- Sporting Memorabilia & Equipment
- Stamps
- Taxidermy & Natural History
- Tools
- Wines & Spirits
- Writing Instruments
News
-
- Art finance
- Auctions
- Brexit
- Buyer's and seller's premiums
- Coronavirus
- Delivery and Shipping
- Education and Training
- Endangered Species
- Events and conferences
- Industry data
- Insurance
- Internet
- Law, crime and regulation
- Museum acquisitions
- Museum deaccessioning
- Obituaries
- Premises and Property
- Private Sales
- Recruitment
- Restoration
- TV shows
-
- 1818 Auctioneers
- Adam Partridge
- Adam's
- Addisons
- Ader
- Aguttes
- Alastair Gibson Auctions
- Alcala Subastas
- Aldridges
- Amersham Auction Rooms
- Anderson & Garland
- Andrew Smith & Son
- Anthemion
- AntikBar
- Antony Cribb
- Artcurial
- Arthur Johnson & Sons
- Aston's
- Auction Team Breker
- Auctionata
- Auctioneum
- Babuino
- Bainbridge Adam Partridge
- Baldwin's
- Bamfords
- Barbara Kirk
- Barbers
- Batemans
- BBR Auctions
- Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood
- Beaussant Lefèvre
- Bellmans
- Bentley’s
- Biddle & Webb
- Bigwood
- Bishop & Miller
- Bleasdales
- Bloomsbury Auctions
- Boldon Auction Galleries
- Bonhams
- Bonhams Skinner
- Bosleys
- Bourne End Auction Rooms
- Brettells
- Brighton General Auctions
- Brightwells
- Bristol Auction Rooms
- Brown & Co
- Bruun Rasmussen
- Burstow & Hewett
- Byrnes
- C&T
- Cambi Casa d'Aste
- Canterbury Auction Galleries
- Capes Dunn
- Catherine Southon
- Cato Crane
- Chalkwell
- Charles Miller
- Charles Ross Auctioneers
- Charterhouse
- Cheffins
- Chilcotts
- Chippenham Auction Rooms
- Chiswick Auctions
- Chorley's
- Christie's
- Clark & Simpson
- Clars Auction Gallery
- Clevedon Salerooms
- Comic Book Auctions
- Cotswold Auction Company
- Cottees
- Cowans
- Criterion
- Crow’s Auctions Gallery
- Curated Auctions
- Cuttlestones
- Czerny
- David Duggleby
- Dawsons
- Denhams
- Dominic Winter
- Dore & Rees
- Dorotheum
- Doyle New York
- Dreweatts
- Duke's
- Durrants
- Eastbourne Auctions
- Eldreds
- Elmwood’s
- Elstob Auctioneers
- Ewbank's
- Featonby's
- Fellows
- Fieldings
- Fine Art Auction Group
- Fine Art Bourse
- Flints Auctioneers
- Fonsie Mealy
- Forum Auctions
- Frank Marshall
- Freeman's
- Freeman's Hindman
- Gardiner Houlgate
- Gary Don
- George Kidner
- Gerrards Auction Rooms
- Gildings
- Golding Young & Mawer
- Gorringes
- Graham Budd
- Grand Auctions
- Great Western Auctions
- Greenslade Taylor Hunt
- Gros & Delettrez
- H&H Classics
- Halls Fine Art
- Hampstead Auctions
- Hannam’s
- Hansons
- Harper Field
- Hartleys
- Henry Adams
- Henry Aldridge & Son
- Heritage Auctions
- Hermann Historica
- High Road Auctions
- Hindman
- Holloways
- Holt's
- Hôtel Drouot
- Hotlotz
- Humbert & Ellis
- Hutchinson Scott
- Jacobs & Hunt
- John Nicholson
- John Pye Auctions
- Jones & Jacob
- JS Fine Art
- Jubilee Auction Rooms
- Juliens
- Kerry Taylor
- KettererKunst
- Keys
- Kidson-Trigg
- Kinghams
- Kings Russell
- Knights Auctions
- Knowle Auction Rooms
- Koller
- Lacy Scott & Knight
- Laidlaw
- Lawrences of Bletchingley
- Lawrences of Crewkerne
- Lay’s Auctioneers
- Lempertz
- Leonard Joel
- Lindsay Burns
- Littleton
- Lockdales
- Locke & England
- London Auctions
- Lots Road Auctions
- Louis Taylor
- Lyon & Turnbull
- MacDougall's
- Mallams
- Mander
- Marlows of Stafford
- Martel Maides
- Maxwells
- McTear's
- Mellors & Kirk
- Michael Bowman
- Millon
- Minster Auctions
- Mitchells
- Moore Allen & Innocent
- Morphets
- Morton & Eden
- Mossgreen
- Mulberry Bank Auctions
- Mullock Jones
- Nagel
- Nesbits
- Netherhampton Salerooms
- Nicholas Mellors
- Nigel Ward
- Noble Investments
- Noonans
- Olympia Auctions
- Omega Auctions
- Onslows
- Osenat
- Paddle8
- Parker Fine Art Auctions
- Paul Beighton Saleroom
- PBA Galleries
- Peter Francis
- Philip Serrell
- Phillips
- Piasa
- Pierre Bergé & Associes
- Piers Motley
- Plymouth Auction Rooms
- Potter & Potter
- Potteries Auctions
- Rago Auctions
- Railtons
- Ramsay Cornish
- Reeman Dansie
- Rendells
- Richard Edmonds Auctions
- Richard Winterton
- Ritchies
- RM Sotheby’s
- Rogers Jones
- Roma Numismatics
- Roseberys
- Ross’s of Belfast
- Rowley's
- Rushbrooks
- Ryedale
- Semley
- Sheffield Auction Gallery
- Sheppard’s
- Silverwoods
- Sloane Street Auctions
- Sotheby's
- Sovereign Rarities
- Special Auction Services
- Spicers
- Spink
- St Jamess Auctions
- Staceys
- Stanley Gibbons Group
- Sterling Vault Auctioneers
- StockholmsAuktionsverk
- Stride & Son
- Summers Place Auctions
- Swan Fine Art Auctioneers
- Swann
- Sworders
- Tajan
- Tamlyns
- Tayler and Fletcher
- Taylor's Auctions
- Tennants
- The Pedestal
- Thimbleby & Shorland
- Thomas Del Mar
- Thomas N Miller
- Thomas R Callan
- Thomas Watson
- Thomaston Place
- Thomson Roddick & Medcalf
- Thomson Roddick Scottish Auctions
- Timeline
- Toovey's
- Trevanion
- Truro Auction Centre
- TW Gaze
- Unique Auctions
- Vectis
- Veritas
- W&H Peacock
- Wallis and Wallis
- Warren & Wignall
- Watches of Knightsbridge
- Wellers
- Wessex Auction Rooms
- Whitton & Laing
- Whittons
- Whytes
- Wilkes & Curtis
- Wilkinson's Auctioneers
- William George & Co
- Wilson55
- Woolley & Wallis
- Wotton Auction Rooms
- Wright Marshall
-
- 1stdibs
- Advertising Standards Authority
- Antiquarian Booksellers Association
- Antique Young Guns
- Antiquities Dealers’ Association
- Art Business Conference
- Art Fund
- Art Loss Register
- Art Recovery International
- Art UK
- Arts Council England
- Assay Office
- Auction Technology Group
- BADA
- BAMF
- CADA
- CINOA
- Company of Arts Scholars
- DACS
- DEFRA
- DMG
- EBay
- Hiscox
- LAPADA
- Lot-tissimo
- National Trust
- NAVA
- Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association
- RICS
- Society of London Art Dealers
- SOFAA
- the saleroom
- Triple-A Auctioneers
-
- Adams Antiques Fairs
- Affordable Art Fair
- Alexandra Palace fair
- Antiques Centres
- Antiques Dealers Fair Limited
- Ardingly Fair
- Armchair Art Fair
- Art & Antiques for Everyone Fair
- Art Antiques London
- Art, Antiques & Interiors Expo
- Arthur Swallow Fairs
- Bath Decorative Antiques Fair
- Battersea Decorative Fair
- Bermondsey Market
- Book Fairs
- BRAFA
- British Art Fair
- Brussels Fairs
- CADA Fair
- Car Boot Fairs
- Clarion Events
- Continuity Fairs
- Cooper Events
- Ephemera fairs
- Fine Art Asia
- Fine Arts Paris
- Firsts
- Florida Fairs
- French Fairs
- Frieze
- Frieze Masters
- Galloway Antiques Fairs
- Harrogate Fairs
- Hatton Garden
- Haughton Fairs
- Hong Kong Fairs
- IACF
- Jaguar Fairs
- LAPADA Fair
- Lincolnshire Antiques and Home Show
- London Original Print Fair
- Masterpiece
- Miami Fairs
- Midcentury Modern
- Modern British Art Fair
- NEC Birmingham
- New York Fairs
- Newark Fair
- Newbury Antiques and Collectors Fair
- Olympia Fair
- PAD London
- Palm Beach Fairs
- Paris Biennale
- Paris Fairs
- Paris Parcours
- Paris Tableau
- Penman Fairs
- Philadelphia Fairs
- Photography fairs
- Regional Fairs
- Salon du Dessin
- Sandown Park Racecourse Fair
- Showground Fairs
- Swinderby Fair
- TEFAF
- The Open Art Fair
- The Treasure House Fair
- Winter Antiques Show
- Works on Paper Fair
-
- Alfred Taubman
- Bendor Grosvenor
- Bill Ruprecht
- Charles Hanson
- Charlie Ross
- Cornelius Gurlitt
- David Lester
- Ed Dolman
- Eric Knowles
- François Pinault
- Ingrid Nilson
- Lennox Cato
- Lord Ashcroft
- Marco Forgione
- Mark Law
- Sheikh Saud Bin Mohammed Al-Thani
- Simon de Pury
- Sue Ede
- Tad Smith
- Tim Goodman
- Victoria Borwick
-
- Abbott and Holder
- Agnews
- Alastair Dickenson
- Andrew Sim
- Blairman
- Carter Marsh
- Colnaghi
- Daniel Katz
- Dickinson
- Fabrizio Moretti
- Ian Towning
- Johnny Van Haeften
- London Silver Vaults
- Mallett
- Mark Weiss
- Partridge Fine Art
- Petworth Antiques Dealers
- Philip Mould
- Pimlico Road Dealers
- Richard Green
- Robert Young
- Roger Keverne
- Rupert Maas
- SJ Phillips
- Wartski
-
- A Lawyer Writes
- Around the Auction Houses
- Art Market
- Auction Reports
- Bid Barometer
- Books and Works on Paper
- Dealers' Diary
- Fairs, Markets, Shops and Centres
- Features
- Front Page and News
- International (print edition)
- Interviews
- Letters to the Editor
- News in Brief
- Obituaries (print edition)
- Opinion
- Pick of the Week
- Precious Metals Prices
- Previews
- Soapbox
- Special Reports
- Then & Now