Fine Art

The Drouot auction centre was also celebrating drawing week with no shortage of drawings and works on paper on offer.

Collectors of photography have an eyeful next month in London with three fairs dedicated to the art, both vintage and modern.

Bay Malton and Gimcrack are the two most famous flat-racing horses of the 1760s.

Demonstrations and the bags of rubbish piled up on the Paris streets were no deterrent for visitors to the Salon du Dessin in March.

Do your forensic investigation before bidding to avoid nasty surprises

Simple Salford street scene dating from year after he left art school is now at £70,000 hammer price level

A high price for a Victorian work sold outside London came at Tennants’ (22% buyer’s premium) latest British, European and Sporting Pictures sale.

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Tennants’ Fine Jewellery, Watches and Silver sale, held concurrently with the Country House auction on March 18 included a very tactile and much-coveted Fabergé silver table lighter in the form of a walking Indian elephant.

Across more than 800 objects offered at the Krehbiel sale, the great majority were proper antiques.

Agnews has launched a new works-on-paper business in Brussels.

Local supporters help to boost pictures produced in art colony based in a North Yorkshire fishing village

This monumental white marble frieze titled Nelson receiving the Spanish surrender after the Battle of St Vincent was created c.1826 by the English sculptor Edward Hodges Baily (1788-1867).

Subject to particular competition from Napoleon buffs at the sale of Books and Works on Paper at Chiswick Auctions on March 16 was an original watercolour sketch titled Funeral Procession to the grave of Bonaparte, 9 May 1821.

An early picture of Victorian artist Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-73) working with his animal subjects has been reidentified by Belgravia dealership Bagshawe Fine Art.

Dealers at the Dutch art and antiques fair noticed a welcome trend of more eclectic tastes among younger buyers

Even in relatively strong sectors of the art market like Modern British pictures the twin attractions of market freshness and attainable estimates remain key factors.