2024

TEFAF New York returns to the Park Avenue Armory in May with 90 exhibitors including nine newcomers.

A temporary export block has been placed on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s polar medal in the hope a buyer in the UK can pay £1.7m.

Two recent art market discoveries, both self-portraits by titans of 17th century British art, met contrasting fortunes in New York.

A bag of coins donated to Oxfam in Orpington, Kent, contained an Australian New South Wales coin dating to 1813 which is valued at up to £7000.

A six-hour sale of 122 lots from the collection of singer-songwriter and Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler took £7.01m (or £8.84m including buyer’s premium).

Winston Churchill’s desk which he used to write his Second World War memoirs has been sold by Peter Harrington Rare Books at The Winter Show in New York (January 19-28).

An exceptional Maltese silver coffee pot took six-times estimate at auction.

Finding antiques with the wow factor was Ann Getty’s forte and she did it with great dedication, some good advice and an outstanding bank balance.

The Bayeux Museum in France has bought a life-size Victorian replica of the Bayeux tapestry from the Charlie Watts sale.

A group of scripts, notes and letters from Hollywood actor Harrison Ford, discovered in a Notting Hill flat he rented, are coming to auction.

A group of statues from a church in Salford have been stolen.

The Louvre Museum has used its pre-emption right to successfully secure a 19th century cast of the Vénus de Milo at Artcurial.

The second part of the auction of The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey is returning to Dominic Winter Auctioneers.

Sotheby’s revealed its full-year results for 2023, revealing consolidated sales of $7.9bn (£6.2bn), just a touch down on the $8bn of 2022.

With estimates from £200, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week.

One of the most coveted Star Wars figures is the Jawa figure by Palitoy with the original vinyl cape.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a collection relating to Sir Winston Churchill being offered from a dealer’s stand at a US fair.

This year’s programme includes a change for the organisation’s spring education week.

Sworders enjoyed a white-glove sale and a £406,000 total for the personal collection of Maurice Turpin (1928-2005).

Several dealers got off the mark in the early hours of BRAFA, which opened yesterday at Brussels Expo.