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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London’s ‘curious gardens’ inspired German botanist
20 May 2024Published between 1750-73, Plantae selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortis curiosorum (‘A selection of plants from natural specimens nurtured in London’s curious gardens’) is considered the most important botanical work ever printed in Germany.
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Leonora Carrington’s surrealist ‘masterpiece’ sets major auction record at Sotheby's
18 May 2024Setting a record for any British-born female artist at auction, a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) drew a lengthy bidding battle at Sotheby’s New York on May 15, taking the artist into a new league commercially.
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British studio pottery features among TEFAF New York sales
16 May 2024Lucie Rie and other Modern masters delight buyers at recent fair
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Model aircraft used to instruct earliest aviators goes to auction
15 May 2024The model of a Blériot XI could be the earliest surviving aeronautical training model in existence
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Damascened casket linked to Henry VIII’s metalworker comes to auction in Barcelona
14 May 2024Iron and gold inlayed casket depicting sieges of Boulogne sur Mer is attributed to court gunsmith and armourer Diego de Çaias.
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Christie’s website down, victim of apparent cyberattack
14 May 2024Christie’s has been the victim of an apparent cyberattack that has brought down its website.
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Wreath believed to have been sent to Napoleon on Saint Helena takes five-figure sum in Spanish auction
14 May 2024Bidders battled for a floral wreath sent by supporters of the exiled and imprisoned emperor.
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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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Designs by the daring Dino Martens come to auction in Italy
13 May 2024Two quite different pieces of glass designed by Dino Martens (1894-1970) led the April 23 sale at Aste di Antiquariato Boetto (25% buyer’s premium) in Genoa.
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Lobby card for The Mummy discovered at auction
13 May 2024A rare lobby card for The Mummy was brought to life at an auction in Los Angeles
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Louis Comfort Tiffany gossip is talk of the town as painting emerges in New York auction
13 May 2024An oil on canvas of a German scene was probably on display at Louis Comfort Tiffany's Long Island home, sold in the 1940s.
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Chinese vase stands tall at Spanish auction
13 May 2024A classic of the large blue and white forms of Yuan dynasty porcelain comes to auction in Spain
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Delve into the darker side of Old Master paintings at auction
13 May 2024Current collecting taste means that Old Master paintings exploring the darker side of the human character can often find more admirers than more typical subject matter of Georgian gentleman or European landscapes. Works of the grotesque are particularly popular.
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Klimt as a cheaper buy
13 May 2024Like all artists born in the 19th century, Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) underwent a traditional academic training, studying at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna) from 1876-83.
MS Rau opens pop up in Colorado
13 May 2024New Orleans art, antiques and jewellery firm MS Rau is expanding and will open a second seasonal location in Colorado, on June 6.
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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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How Whistler became a prolific and powerful printmaker
13 May 2024When James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) arrived in Paris in 1855 determined to pursue a career as an artist, printmaking was experiencing a revival.
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Clipper by ‘the Irish Alfred Wallis’ sails into Dublin to set a record
13 May 2024A picture by the artist dubbed ‘the Irish Alfred Wallis’ soared above estimate to bring a record at Dublin saleroom Adam’s (25% buyer’s premium).
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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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Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup Golden Ball to go to auction
10 May 2024The player was named player of the tournament after winning the World Cup for Argentina
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