2024

What promises to be a market-defining sale for two well-known Modern British artists will be held in Essex this autumn.

Frederic Leighton’s 'Bay of Cádiz, Moonlight' will go on public display for the first time in 120 years at the artist’s former home after being bought at auction this summer.

This week Anderson & Garland is offering for sale the private collection of militaria and weapons belonging to Douglas Napier Anderson (b.1927).

A charming item brought to a saleroom last week will go under the hammer next week.

David Hockney's art school era features in an array of prints coming to auction at Christie's that offers masters of Impressionism and Pop Art principals.

A trove of eight original stone-lithographed Charlie Chaplin film posters is heading to the market at Propstore in Valencia, California on September 12-13.

Catherine Southon Auctioneers & Valuers has moved to new premises with a permanent saleroom.

Pulling out a suitcase from under a bed during a probate valuation, auctioneer and valuer at Dawsons Nicky Houston was astonished at what she found hidden inside.

With only a few weeks to go before the event, Classic Antique Fairs has postponed its September outing.

A previously unpublished oil sketch by John Constable provoked fierce bidding at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury

Book specialist Jim Spencer has left Hansons and is launching his own saleroom offering monthly timed online auctions in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

Standing at 17in (43cm) high, the overly confident swagger of this eccentric bewigged gentleman is evident.

Despite its poor condition, an early 16th century Deruta maiolica portrait charger has sold for 15 times its estimate at auction in Somerset.

A copy of the very first issue of The Beano – and the only one to retain its original ‘free gift’ - has sold at auction for £26,000.

It isn’t often these days that a large and connoisseurial collection of British watercolours comes to the market.

Bonhams is offering James McNeill Whistler’s (1834-1903) first portrait commission, a painting of Lucas Alexander Ionides, at its 19th Century Art auction next month.

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of an early Netherlandish panel painting of ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ attracting strong interest at a US auction

A c.1912 cigarette card showing baseball pitcher Rube Marquard was given a ballpark estimate of £300-500 at Loddon Auctions.

A portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) and his workshop which has been in an American museum since the 1960s will be offered at Christie’s New York in January following an agreement between the institution and the heirs of a Jewish collector.

This year’s POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair (September 12-15) will showcase works brought by 111 galleries from 24 countries