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2018
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Leading lot from local artist: Lynn Chadwick bronze draws early interest at Gloucestershire auction
16 May 2018A bronze sculpture by Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of the top lots at a Gloucestershire auction earlier this week.
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Blow to art lending market in UK as government scraps proposed new lending law
16 May 2018Art lending in the UK suffered a blow this week when the government announced it was abandoning a proposed bill to reform lending laws.
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Saturday May 19 is a big day: Salerooms happy to compete with Royal wedding and FA Cup final
15 May 2018Football fans and royalists have a busy weekend ahead – Saturday, May 19, is when Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle and Chelsea take on Manchester United at Wembley in the FA Cup Final.
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Modigliani’s ‘Nu couché’ sold for $139m at Sotheby’s auction in New York
15 May 2018The largest painting by ever made by Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) became the fourth most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in New York last night, but it still sold below estimate.
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Recreate seminal chatshow moment with Rod Hull and Emu puppet coming up in Wiltshire auction
15 May 2018Chatshow host Michael Parkinson had a glittering TV career. However, he was quick to acknowledge: “The only thing I’m ever remembered for is being attacked by that bloody bird.”
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London salvage and antiques firm hosts architecture and design summer lecture series in Georgian mansion
14 May 2018Salvage and reclamation specialist LASSCO is hosting a series of talks on the history of design and architecture in its Georgian mansion, Brunswick House in Vauxhall, south London.
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Hedge fund owner of Savile Row tailor plans online-only auction at Sotheby’s
14 May 2018Savile Row tailor Huntsman & Sons and financier Pierre Lagrange are to hold an online auction at Sotheby’s later this month.
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Rare pre-First World War photographs of Winston Churchill painting come to auction in Bristol
14 May 2018Prime minister, politician, army officer, war journalist and writer - Winston Churchill had many talents, but it was while painting that he truly relaxed.
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They said what?! The week (7-13 May, 2018) in quotes from the art and antiques world
13 May 2018In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week we cover stories on the record-breaking sale of the Rockefeller collection, as well as thefts of antiques and jewellery in London, Derbyshire and Wales.
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Antiques Roadshow regular David Battie to hold exhibition at Cotswold auction house Tayler & Fletcher
12 May 2018BBC Antiques Roadshow regular and Asian art expert David Battie is to host an exhibition and lecture at Cotswold auction house Tayler & Fletcher.
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Archive of most famous hangman Albert Pierrepoint up at auction in West Sussex
11 May 2018It must have broken the ice at parties: ‘So, what do you do?’ Reply: ‘I’m a hangman…’
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Man Ray’s London Underground poster is star lot of New York auction
11 May 2018Man Ray’s eye-catching 1938 promotional poster for the London Underground was the toast of Swann Auction Galleries’ recent graphic design auction in New York.
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Criminals who targeted antique dealers finally jailed after 16 year crime spree
11 May 2018Two criminals who stole more than £300,000 of jewellery and antiques by targeting antiques dealers at their homes have been sentenced to six years and two months’ imprisonment each.
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Napoleon’s Sèvres dessert service sells at $1.8m at Rockefeller auction in New York
10 May 2018A Sèvres dessert service commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and known as the ‘Marly Rouge’ service has been sold for a premium-inclusive $1.84m (£1.36m) at Christie’s New York Rockefeller sale.
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Derbyshire family and police call on antiques trade to help locate stolen artefacts from private chapel
10 May 2018A family are calling on the antiques trade to help them locate brass artefacts stolen from a private chapel in Walton upon Trent in Derbyshire.
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Dalek playsuit for when little ones want to exterminate, exterminate
10 May 2018I could wax lyrical about the full-size Dalek coming up for auction at a Staffordshire auction house Richard Winterton on May 21. But various versions tend to be offered relatively frequently, to be honest. How often do you have the chance to buy a ‘Dalek Playsuit’, though?
![‘Nymphéas en fleur’ by Claude Monet](/media/28575/2342-ne-chrsties-rockefeller-monet_nympheas.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=125&height=125&rnd=131703250840000000)
10 European paintings that lit up the Rockefeller sale at Christie’s New York
09 May 2018The evening sale of 19th and 20th century art from the collection of the David and Peggy Rockefeller collection posted a record for any single-owner auction.
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Police seek man in connection with Masterpiece fair jewellery theft
09 May 2018The Metropolitan Police are trying to trace the whereabouts of a man wanted in connection with a high-value theft of jewellery at last year’s ‘Masterpiece London’ fair.
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Writing box secret drawer reveals a sharpshooter pistol rather than sharp nib
09 May 2018When we wrote about Charles Miller’s latest auction in London one of the star lots was a magnificent Asprey travelling case for the gentleman who needs everything. However, it was missing one particular item which a writing box on offer at the Dominic Winter May 18 sale provides.
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Scottish Colourists collection comes to auction at Sotheby’s
09 May 2018Paintings by the renowned Scottish Colourists have been unveiled at the Art Club in Glasgow ahead of a single-owner collection auction next month.