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Pick of the week: Gillray in his own time and place
13 May 2024Remarkably, although a very successful and popular artist, no accounts of the work of the Georgian caricaturist James Gillray (1756-1815) were published in England during his lifetime.
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Icon boosted by fantastic ornate frame
13 May 2024The sale at Hargesheimer (28% buyer’s premium) on April 18 included an outstanding Russian icon and oklad by Orest Kurlyukov.
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Kirchner steps back into view
11 May 2024For over a century, the whereabouts of the painting Tanz im Varieté (Steptanz) (Vaudeville Dance/Tap Dance) by the Expressionist Ernst Ludig Kirchner were unknown.
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Javanese prince who became an artist
06 May 2024Over the years, Cologne auction house Van Ham has achieved high prices for works by Raden Saleh Ben Jaggia.
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Monkey business from von Max
06 May 2024The German artist Gabriel von Max (1840-1915) was not only an accomplished painter but also a passionate follower of Darwinism.
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Prud’hon Psyche caused a stir
06 May 2024One of the highlights on the first day of the May 30-31 auction at Grisebach in Berlin is a collection of 33 works on paper from the collection of the one-time Cologne gallery owner Rudolf Zwirner.
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Flights of fantasy: artist depicted hot-air balloons he never saw
06 May 2024With very few exceptions, the French artist Victor Philippe Lemoine-Benoit devoted almost all of his painting career to one subject: hot-air balloons of the Montgolfière type.
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Latest brews: ninth Brandt tea-infuser emerges
06 May 2024It has often been said that no other work of art encompasses the spirit of the Bauhaus more perfectly than Marianne Brandt’s tea-infuser or Teeextraktkännchen MT49, as it was officially called.
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Constable link tempts bidders to German auction
22 April 2024An old label on the back of a Medway view that emerged in Germany gave a tantalising suggestion that the British artist John Constable was involved.
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Short-lived Francis Bacon furniture finds modern-day fans
22 April 2024One of the lesser-known episodes in the long and eventful life of Francis Bacon lasted little more than five years and was later dismissed by the artist as unimportant.
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London art dealer buys Moore’s classical women at German auction
22 April 2024British artist Albert Joseph Moore (1841-93) was predestined to become a painter, following in the footsteps of his father and four of his 13 siblings.
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Tinplate landscape viewed as worth four times estimate
22 April 2024Toy specialist Lankes (25% buyer’s premium) in Döhlau, Germany auctioned the extensive inventory of the private museum in Prague belonging to Ivan Steiger, who is equally well-known as a caricaturist and a collector of toys.
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Silver lights up Dr Fischer's 300th auction
22 April 2024European dealers and collectors competed for pieces of 18th century Transylvanian silver which were on sale at the 300th auction of Dr Fischer (30% buyer’s premium) in Heilbronn, Germany.
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Science & technology: Collectors who know their type
15 April 2024Knowledgeable bidders generated high prices for early typewriters at German technology specialist’s latest sale
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Initials spell out Mohn and Heinrich collaboration at German auction
18 March 2024The vendor of an early 19th century glass offered as part of the February 21-24 sale at Wendl (21% buyer’s premium) in Rudolstadt will have been astonished by the result.
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Preyer vendor hopes for a high flyer
18 March 2024Early on in his career, which spanned most of the 19th century, Johann Wilhelm Preyer decided to paint only still-lifes. He studied at the academy in Düsseldorf and was one of the leading lights in what was to become the Düsseldorf School of painters.
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Auction record set for Carl Gustav Carus after Faust find
18 March 2024Rediscovered work inspired by Goethe emerges at auction in Germany
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Micromosaic with rare motif emerges in Freiburg sale
18 March 2024Driven by the demand from the numerous Grand Tourists who visited the Italian capital in the 19th century, Roman craftsmen revived and adapted the ancient technique of mosaics to produce works of art that would appeal to their international clientele.
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Bamboo coat stand to hook a buyer
18 March 2024In the latter half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, there were over 250 companies in Great Britain producing bamboo furniture.
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