International

About 80% of the global art market by value takes place outside the UK. The largest art market in the world is the US with China in third place (after the UK) followed by France, Germany and Switzerland.

Many more nations have a rich art and antiques heritage with active auction, dealer, fair, gallery and museum sectors even if their market size by value is smaller.

Read the top stories and latest art and antiques news from all these countries.

Drill Rat by Banksy

An auction that ‘pulls back the curtain on Banksy like never before’

18 October 2024

A group of Banksy prints, stencils, sketches, handwritten notes and personal artefacts is being auctioned by the artist’s former agent Steve Lazarides.

Gurr Johns Paris team

Art advisor Gurr Johns brings ‘Anglo-Saxon model’ to Paris market

17 October 2024

Gurr Johns, the art advisor that owns UK auction house Dreweatts, has opened an office in Paris.

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Prime example of pietre dure decoration emerges at Lisbon auction

14 October 2024

An ornate 17th century cabinet with pietre dure inlays and gilt bronze mounts heads to Lisbon auction house Veritas on October 21 with an estimate of €80,000–120,000.

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Irish silver beer jug features among five lots to watch

14 October 2024

With estimates from £100, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

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Nerly brings Venetian grandeur, intrigue – and snow – to a Cologne auction

14 October 2024

On October 26, Cologne saleroom Lempertz is holding a sale in Berlin devoted to the collection of some 100 paintings amassed by a German connoisseur from the 1980s onwards.

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Five questions with Karl Kemp gallery manager Crawford Bray

14 October 2024

Crawford Bray is gallery manager for Karl Kemp which is exhibiting at the 13th Salon Art + Design in New York from November 7-11

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Work of art in itself: Duchamp Dada poster impresses at auction

14 October 2024

When Marcel Duchamp was recruited in 1953 by New York gallerist Sidney Janis to create a retrospective of the Dada art movement, he rose to the challenge.

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Five upcoming auction highlights in Germany

14 October 2024

Our selection of lots from five sales taking place in Germany this season

DD2664 Braceletsueollemans

Broad church of tribal artefacts on show at specialist fair

11 October 2024

The Tribal Art Fair (TAF) is returning to De Duif in Amsterdam from October 24 to 27. Twenty ethnographic dealers will be exhibiting at the 22nd edition of the fair.

L'Automne by Paris Bordone

Ace in the pack as rediscovered Old Master flies to six times estimate

09 October 2024

The latest sale at Aces Gallery in Stamford, Connecticut was topped by the multi-estimate performance of a rediscovered allegorical painting by Venetian artist Paris Bordone (c.1500-71).

Pablopicasso (1881 1973), Carnaval Au Bistrot. Paris, Ete. 1908, Watercolor On Paper, 22.5 X 21 Cm, Courtesy Patrick Bourne Co.

Master Drawings New York announces dates for 2025

08 October 2024

The 19th edition of Master Drawings New York is expected to feature more than 20 exhibitors from New York, London, Paris, Madrid and Brussels

Edgar Mitchell's Rolex GMT-Master 1675

First Rolex worn on the moon appears at auction

08 October 2024

The Rolex GMT-Master worn by the sixth man to walk on the moon, Edgar Mitchell, is being offered at a sale in the US

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Meccano robot plays its cards right

07 October 2024

Its survival a mystery for years, a rare 1950s Meccano store display figure has surfaced in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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‘Wandering hour’ watch found a home in Australia

07 October 2024

Any gold ‘wandering hour’ watch made prior to the introduction of the balance spring is a rarity.

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Rozenburg porcelain gets to the art of the matter and Zsolnay hits its peak

07 October 2024

Among the hundreds of new products launched at the Exposition Universelle in 1900 was the so-called eggshell porcelain, produced by the Rozenburg Royal Delftware Factory in the Hague.

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Celebrated Swiss auctioneer Kornfeld’s own collection offered on the rostrum

07 October 2024

Items amassed by the late Eberhard Kornfeld feature in bumper series of five sales at the firm he ran

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Sèvres painter shows his talent

07 October 2024

There were plenty of potential takers for a Sèvres cup and saucer from the 1840s which came under the hammer at Hargesheimer (28% buyer’s premium) in Dusseldorf on September 11-14.

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Box boasts Rothschild provenance

07 October 2024

A French gold and enamel box with an unusual decoration caught the eye of several bidders at Kendzia (16% buyer’s premium).

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Munich fair set to wow with help of wine coolers

07 October 2024

From October 17-20, the 15th edition of the prestigious fair Munich Highlights is opening its doors in the Residenz, the one-time city palace of the Bavarian royal family.

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Tinworth? Doulton Lambeth? That rings a bell

07 October 2024

Designed by George Tinworth, c.1885, this Doulton Lambeth spill vase commemorates the first transatlantic phone call between the UK and the US.

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