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.
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Harry Davis Royal Worcester polar bears on the prowl in the US
01 July 2024Three Royal Worcester vases on offer were all painted by the versatile decorator
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Wheellock from French king’s famed collection comes to US saleroom
01 July 2024A wheellock sporting arm from the renowned Cabinet d’Armes of King Louis XIII (1601-43) is for sale at Rock Island Auction Company (RIAC) from August 23-25.
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Innovative Earth design ready for assembly
01 July 2024Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of 20th century USA’s most prominent architects, inventors and designers.
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Marx makes a dedication in Das Kapital
01 July 2024The Rare Books sale at Ketterer Kunst (25/20/19% buyer’s premium) in Hamburg on May 27 included this first edition dedication copy of Das Kapital (1867).
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Artist who was blown away by hot air balloons
01 July 2024With very few exceptions, the French artist Victor Philippe Lemoine-Benoit (active 1831-50) devoted almost all of his painting career to one subject: hot-air balloons of the type made famous by the Montgolfier brothers in the late 18th century.
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Toxicologist with style and substances when it came to life and collecting
01 July 2024Estimated at $15,000-20,000 but hammering for $135,000 (£107,000), the highlight of the Asian works of art sale at Tenmoku (28/25/20% buyer’s premium) was a Chinese white-glazed incised dragon vase.
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Two Bulgari Serpenti jewels slither into salerooms
01 July 2024Serpenti jewels, which followed the launch of Bulgari’s signature gold Tubogas bracelets in the late 1940s, were featured in Vogue and other fashion magazines on countless occasions in the Sixties.
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Camus classic written in poverty takes six-figure sum
01 July 2024In a private collection since it was last sold in 1991, one of only two known autograph manuscripts by author and journalist Albert Camus of his masterpiece L’Etranger was sold by Tajan (23/20/12% buyer’s premium) in Paris on June 5.
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Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze seals a sensational price
01 July 2024Concept Art Gallery (22% buyer’s premium) in Pittsburgh enjoyed a sensational result at a recent sale.
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Royal approval for the work of George Michael Moser once dubbed ‘England’s favourite goldsmith’
01 July 2024Watch chatelaine offered at auction was produced by a man who created many works for the Hanoverian household
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Scarpa’s brush with success when it came to glass making
01 July 2024The Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906-78) designed for Venini from 1932-47, creating around 30 different ranges.
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Automatic peeler with lots of appeal
01 July 2024Over 100 patents for mechanical apple parers were granted in the US between 1850-90.
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Fabergé’s cool creations ‘inspired by ice crystals’
01 July 2024Fabergé’s rock crystal, platinum, silver and diamond ‘ice flower’ jewels were made by the workmaster Albert Holmström, c.1913-14, after designs made by his niece Alma Pihl (1888-1976).
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Crouching Venus copy makes a stand-out sum
01 July 2024On the market for the first time in over half a century, a Roman marble copy of the Crouching Venus hammered at $130,000 (£103,000) in the Freeman’s Hindman (27/21/15% buyer’s premium) auction on May 23.
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Shakespeare’s First Folio lands in Tasmania
29 June 2024London rare book dealer Peter Harrington sold the copy to an edgy Australian museum
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Harry Potter original artwork sells for $1.6m
27 June 2024Thomas Taylor created the artwork in 1997 aged 23 years old and fresh out of art school.
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Newly discovered American portrait miniature of George Washington by Charles Willson Peale comes to a London saleroom
26 June 2024A rare opportunity has come up to bid for a portrait miniature of the first US president, which has been found in the UK.
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Irish art results ‘Nearly as strong as Celtic Tiger good old days’
24 June 2024Irish art sales rated as ‘very good’ despite some supply challenges as private collectors wait to consign
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Artist not confirmed but Old Master tells a Florentine family history tale
24 June 2024While the identity of the main artist was up for debate, the impressive ownership of a work sold in Austria was not in doubt
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Old Master by unknown painter causes a stir as Bavarian collection comes to auction
24 June 2024On May 8, Neumeister (30% buyer’s premium) in Munich sold the collection of Hans Constantin Faussner, a Bavarian lawyer and art collector.
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