Europe

From late 1940 to early 1941 André Breton and a group of other Surrealists including Wifredo Lam, Max Ernst, Oscar Dominguez, Victor Brauner, André Masson and Frédéric Delanglade re-located to Marseille where they anxiously awaited visas to escape occupied France.

Famous Frenchman has amassed an impressive wide-ranging array of acquisitions over six decades

Antwerp dealership Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge has made two sales to international institutions.

Italian-born sculptor was a founding figure in the first wave of Modernism via São Paolo

A recent Design sale at Sotheby’s (26/20/13.9/plus 1% overhead buyer’s premium) in Paris had stacks of post-war material by renowned names such as the Lalannes and Charlotte Perriand but the Art Deco period also featured.

A small selection of the distinctive decorative figures produced by the Austrian firm of Hagenaur featured in the sale of Decorative Arts held by Im Kinsky (28% buyer’s premium) on June 21.

A previously lost tapestry, commissioned by Henry VIII for Hampton Court during the turmoil of the English Reformation, is a step closer to returning to the UK for public display.

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.