Fine Art

Three auctions follow on from the October series to offer items from the collectors’ Californian residence

Cotswold art gallery Trinity House Paintings is in administration.

A work by Rebecca Solomon (1832-86) originally offered at Sotheby’s and later blocked from export to the US has been bought by two UK museums.

Latest results for works by the stars of the Scottish market show strong prices but a bit of a mixed picture

Refugee artist provided first-hand experience of cutting edge style

These two archival prints of David Bowie dressed in a striped bodysuit he wore during the 1973 Aladdin Sane tour were part of Chiswick Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) sale of 19th and 20th Century Photographs on May 31.

Ahead of David Messum’s major show of British paintings in London and Marlow, the veteran dealer tells ATG about his long career – and how he relaxes on a terrace in Corfu with a paintbrush and a G&T

Fabrics, costumes and theatre set designer turned to painting when her work was destroyed by a bomb

More than 70 lots of paintings, works on paper and antiques assembled by the well-known auctioneer and collector Paul Whitfield (1942- 2018) went under the hammer at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford on May 17.

Queen singer Freddie Mercury’s art and antiques collection is coming up for sale in September.

Enthusiastic bidding emerged for two paintings included in an Old Masters sale at Chiswick Auctions (25/12% buyer’s premium).

This classic example of Venetian vedute was taken to a multi-estimate £34,000 at Gardiner Houlgate (22% buyer’s premium) in Corsham.

Collaborative London galleries event signals renewed appreciation of this collecting field

Rachel Elwes is a director at Ben Elwes Fine Art, one of the participants in London Art Week.