Forum Auctions
Forum Auctions are a London auction house specialising in antiquarian books, manuscripts, works on paper, prints and modern & contemporary art. They were launched in 2016 with Stephan Ludwig serving as chief executive officer.
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Online bidders snap up rare James Barry prints at Forum Auctions
26 March 2020Two versions of a rare mezzotint self-portrait by the Irish artist James Barry (1741-1806) excelled when offered for sale at Forum Auctions. Both plates, one an unrecorded proof impression, the other possibly inscribed by the artist, took multi-estimate sums from online bidders.
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Solid interest at Forum Auctions for Anthony Askham leaves
09 March 2020Very much the surprise of an online sale held by Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) was a lot presenting incomplete fragments of 'An Almanacke and Prognosticatyon'… for the year 1552.
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Wood engravings showing executions in grisly detail emerge at Forum Auctions
24 February 2020Two broadsides describing and illustrating with wood engravings the executions of convicted murderers were sold online at £1600 apiece by Forum.
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Manuscript from c.1270 tackles Medieval marriage guidance
24 February 2020Featuring one historiated initial depicting a priest blessing the marriage of a couple who stand before him, a medieval guide to marital problems and resolutions made £32,000 online at Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).
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Assay office books hit the high-quality mark
10 February 2020A remarkable collection of books from The Birmingham Assay Office Library will be offered at Forum Auctions in London on March 26.
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Astronomical texts and fantastic worlds of fairies
10 February 2020Two very different lots helped Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) to boost its first major sale of the year.
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Song dynasty Chinese bowl, Roman cutlery and a Victorian board game – six lots to watch at auction this week
20 January 2020With estimates from £400-12,000 here are six previews of upcoming items.
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Banksy prints in focus at Forum sale
15 January 2020Banksy's first commercially produced screenprint to be offered at Forum Auctions next week.
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John Gould’s ‘masterpiece’ is offered at auction in a rare complete set of 25 original parts
06 January 2020Bid just short of the high estimate to sell at £56,000 in a Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) sale was a rare complete set in 25 original parts of John Gould’s 'Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming Birds' of 1849-61.
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Games of genius and Uncle Sam
23 December 2019Among the selection of instructional games and pastimes featured at Forum Auctions (25/12/12% buyer’s premium) on November 21 two of the more successful lots were published by Edward Wallis.
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Album displays Bristol’s brightest minds
09 December 2019Watercolour collection sold at auction represents a ‘who’s who’ of the city in the 1830s
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Pick of the week: Putting the Hours in brings reward
02 December 2019Personal devotional prayer books, known as a Book of Hours, were popular among the wealthy and powerful in late medieval Europe. Illuminated with miniature paintings depicting the life of Christ, the Virgin Mary and saints, they were sometimes personalised for the patrons who commissioned them.
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Five lots to watch at auction this week including a rediscovered Paul Nash painting, a tripod table and a rare sampler
18 November 2019With estimates from £600-70,000, here are five previews of upcoming sales this week.
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Piranesi takes to the field
11 November 2019Bid to a record £20,000 at a Forum Auctions (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) on September 26 was a beautifully bound example of Piranesi’s Campus Martius Antiquae Urbis.
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Harry Potter casts spell on bidders
04 November 2019Code locked in a briefcase for two decades, a finely preserved, 1997 first issue of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was finally released this summer after being delivered by its Lancashire owners into the hands of a Derbyshire saleroom.
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Bastille lot with English connection
28 October 2019Estimated at £10,000-15,000 in a Forum Auctions sale of November 21 is a French indenture agreement of 1421 with a certain added English appeal.
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Paula Rego prints bring success stories
14 October 2019Much of Paula Rego’s (b.1935) work is concerned with narrative, as seen in this limited-edition lithograph of a girl reading a book.
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Arctic expedition group bears up well at Forum Auctions
14 October 2019A small but very successful section of a recent London sale offered a group of just eight lots related to the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.
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Five lots to watch at auction this week including an Arctic sledge flag, a Royal Academician’s cup and a model train
23 September 2019With estimates from £800-6000, here are five previews of upcoming sales this week.
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