2022

Our latest news on hires includes new faces at auction houses and a dealer association.

With estimates from £200-20,000, here are seven previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Victorian diamond necklace setting a house record at Catherine Southon.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a miniature boxwood carving with biblical scenes known as a ‘prayer nut’ that made over six-times estimate at Sotheby’s.

Frieze is launching a Korean art fair and has signed up 110 galleries for the event scheduled for September 2-5.

A silver hunting flask taken from the Summer Palace when it was sacked by British troops in 1860 during the Second Opium War, which was due to be auctioned tomorrow (July 6), has now been withdrawn.

Auctioneer Simon de Pury, who previously owned and ran Phillips and worked as an art advisor, has launched de-Pury.com with auctions planned for next month.

Auction house Sworders is supporting and promoting a fundraising effort for a local arts centre.

With estimates from £400-25,000, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Louis Wain ceramic cat breaking the 12-year-old auction record.

Art education charity Art UK has been working on digitally recording all public artworks in the UK.

A Francis Bacon portrait of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud topped the latest series of Modern and Contemporary auctions in London.

A series of high sums for works in different media by Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) demonstrated the steadily growing appetite and prices for the artist.

Bonhams has bought its fourth auction house this year: Cornette de Saint Cyr with salerooms in Paris and Belgium.

Thieves entered the TEFAF Maastricht venue and stole jewellery from dealer Symbolic & Chase by smashing a display case.

An expanding jewellery team in Staffordshire and a new London managing director for a US auction house feature in our latest round-up of industry news.

With estimates from £300-120,000, here are six previews of items coming up at auction this week.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a Pablo Picasso drawing found in a cupboard selling at auction for a six-figure sum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was among those making purchases at TEFAF Maastricht as it opened for the first time in two years today.

ATG’s weekly selection of items that caught bidders’ eyes includes a rare harpsichord with a painted lid that made a six-figure sum in Wiltshire.