2019

Manchester United star Paul Pogba is selling the boots he wore at the 2018 World Cup final at a charity auction in Paris.

Sketchbooks owned by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) featuring views of London have been bought by the Louvre Museum for €314,000 (£268,375).

A very rare Roman gold coin, found by a metal detectorist in a field in Kent last month, will come to auction with an estimate of £70,000-100,000.

A rare 350-year-old cabinet made by Baroque craftsman Giacomo Herman (1615-85) has been temporarily barred from export by the UK government in the hope it will be bought by a buyer in the UK.

Ten landmark sales at Christie's that highlight the dramatic rise of the Russian art market since the fall of communism.

A collection of 29 Japanese objects including boxes – known as inrō – will be offered at auction at Mallams in Cheltenham next month.

A 17th century tortoiseshell, pewter and brass marquetry cabinet on stand was the star turn in the sale of the contents from a country house in the Ile de France at Drouot in Paris.

With estimates from £250-30,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.

A 155m-year-old one-of-a-kind diplodocus skeleton has been moved from the shale beds of Wyoming to Heathrow Terminal Five, a stopover on its way to auction in France.

Find out what members of the art and antiques trade had to say this week about disagreements, delays and dinosaurs.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of Sotheby’s and Mark Weiss settling out of court over a ‘fake’ Franz Hals painting.

ATG’s selection of hammer highlights over the past week includes an Andrew Grima ring and two Stuart Devlin silver gilt surprise eggs that sold for many multiples of their estimates.

A medieval marriage contract representing Isabella of France’s political machinations was knocked down for £120,000 at Bonhams last week.

An update on recent appointments in the world of art and antiques.

A prolific pensioner art thief has been sentenced to two years in jail. Police are now calling for help to locate a painting that he stole from a private members’ club in London.

The name of the film Green Book which won the Oscar for best picture in February was based on a motoring handbook aimed to guide African-American travellers away from hazardous areas in the pre-civil rights US.

Art shippers have welcomed European Union laws that create a grace period for UK hauliers until the end of 2019.

A Doctor Who archive of photographs and copies of plans from The Power of the Daleks – the completely missing third serial of the fourth season – has been sold at auction in south London.

TEFAF chief executive Patrick van Maris is four years into his tenure and after positive feedback about the 2019 Maastricht event, he talked to ATG about the response to changing the fair’s vetting system, the opportunity to expand in Maastricht and other changes to 2020’s event.

Discovered in a house in northern France, a rare oil sketch by Peter Paul Rubens created for an important commission in Antwerp has sold for €1.3m (£1.12m).