Europe

Rare works on offer in Swiss saleroom were by artist most familiar for his Fauvist fine art creations

The sale at Düsseldorfer Auktionshaus (25% buyer’s premium) on May 12 included this 22in (57cm) diameter Russian carved wood ‘bread and salt’ dish.

A canvas by the Romantic painter Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) went for many times the guide at Kinsky (28% buyer’s premium) in Vienna.

Recent sales of Asian art achieved some memorable prices, paid not surprisingly by Asian buyers.

An early 17th century pen and ink drawing of Euterpe, the muse of lyrical music, caused the biggest surprise at Karl & Faber (27% buyer’s premium).

Recent advertising highlights from UK sales and an Italian auction

French auction business Drouot Group has sold a 30% stake to fund digital expansion.

Most of the exhibitors at the spring edition of the biannual antiques fair held in the enchanting antiques-laden Provençal town of Isle-sur-la-Sorgue come from the south of France with a couple from Italy and Belgium.

International collectors invested considerable sums in the Expressionist paintings on offer at German sales over the last few weeks.

In the 1920s, the German painter Albert Birkle (1900-86) combined 'Neue Sachlichkeit' (New Objectivity) with his version of magic realism to produce sometimes disturbing results.

A new auction record for netsuke – over three times the previous high – has been set in France.

Auctions held in Australia and Germany rack up strong prices for major European makers

The HMV 900 was one of first television receivers designed by the Marconi-EMI Television Company, the firm that also provided the technology for Britain’s first television service.

A Brutus Eid Mar-type silver denarius, struck shortly after the murder of Julius Caesar, has become the most expensive numismatic object ever sold at auction in Scandinavia.

Recent auction results in Germany and Switzerland give a snapshot of the market beyond wristwatches

Deux Antilopes Koudou or Caress, c.1911, by Rembrandt Bugatti, is on offer at the inaugural The Treasure House Fair from French exhibitor Univers du Bronze.

A previously unrecorded second version of Lavinia Fontana’s Mannerist portrait of Antonietta Gonsalvus has sold in France for a record €1.25m (£1.1m).

This conical beaker by master French glass maker Emile Gallé will feature in a mixed-discipline auction to be held by Copages at Drouot on June 26.