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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Expressionist pioneer Bauhaus artist later became a Nazi

09 September 2024

Lithograph comes from 1920s series made long before Schreyer pledged allegiance to Hitler

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Impronte act as reminder of famous Grand Tour works

09 September 2024

The DuMouchelles (24% buyer’s premium) July 19 sale in Detroit included a collection of ‘Grand Tour’ plaster intaglios and cameos by Paoletti of Rome.

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Sandoz bronze goose reduced to snail’s pace

09 September 2024

Clars (26% buyer’s premium) brought a bronze sculpture by famed 20th century animalier Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881-1971) to market in Oakland, California, as part of the Summer Fine Art Sale.

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Black Louis Vuitton trunk could match a car colour

09 September 2024

Coloured Vuittonite canvas – in yellow, red, green, black or orange – usually appears on trunks made from 1900-20.

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Five questions with Nate Ivey of DC Silver

09 September 2024

DC Silver is a Washington, DC based e-commerce business specialising in antiques. ATG spoke to its proprietor, Nate Ivey

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Adamson ice fisherman catches the attention at auction

09 September 2024

Top lot at The Magnusson Group (25/15/12% buyer’s premium) at Morristown, New Jersey on July 24, was a 1898 bronze by the Estonian sculptor Amandus Heinrich Adamson (1855-1929).

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Bidders make Wiener Werkstätte buckles link

09 September 2024

A rarity spotted in the Summer Gallery Auction at Hartzell’s (24% buyer’s premium) on July 29 was a pair of early 20th century women’s evening shoes with appliques by the Wiener Werkstätte.

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Ram trade sign hammers at $16,000

09 September 2024

This handsome English trade sign in the form of a ram had a provenance to the London folk art dealership Robert Young Antiques.

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Handy way to carry a rubber duck in style

09 September 2024

A single-owner collection of 37 pieces of Louis Vuitton luggage formed part of Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) Design sale.

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Pergay’s steel furniture proved to be a big hit

09 September 2024

When the Romanian-born French designer Maria Pergay (1930-2023) was asked why she chose to make furniture out of steel, she responded that it was because she had a score to settle with Stalin. “You know his name means steel? So the more I hit it, the happier I am.”

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Examples of Namikawa’s intricate art excite many admirers

09 September 2024

Five works by one of the greatest exponents of the intricate art of cloisonné enamel were included in Alderfer Auction’s (23% buyer’s premium) Collectors sale staged on July 24-25.

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Ritual ornament comes from Kansas collection of 22 jades

09 September 2024

Revere Auctions’ (25% buyer’s premium) sale in St Paul, Minnesota, titled Eternal Beauty: Splendors in Asian Art was dominated by a group of Chinese jades that came by descent from the family of Jerry O’Brien (1902-51).

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Luxury travel: Christie's sells largest private collection of Louis Vuitton trunks

09 September 2024

The largest private collection of Louis Vuitton trunks ever to come to auction was sold by Christie’s Paris (26% buyer’s premium) earlier this year.

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Louis XVI bedroom panels on the move yet again after auction purchase

09 September 2024

Painted wood panels from a partial Louis XVI boiserie-panelled bedroom were among the 250 lots at the Design for the Home and Garden auction at Andrew Jones (25/18/12% buyer’s premium) in Los Angeles on July 17.

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Auction offers ‘truly magnificent’ copy of Irish antiquities work

09 September 2024

Blessed with a classical education, a gift for drawing and his father’s fortune, the English militiaman and antiquary Francis Grose (1731-91) is best known for his Views of Antiquities in England and Wales, published in several volumes between 1772-76.

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Charlie Chaplin posters head to auction

06 September 2024

A trove of eight original stone-lithographed Charlie Chaplin film posters is heading to the market at Propstore in Valencia, California on September 12-13.

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Seven-figure bet on ‘Rembrandt’ as portrait becomes the Maine attraction

02 September 2024

The second session of the three-day sale at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on August 23-25 was dominated by the seven-figure performance of a portrait in the manner of Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-69).

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Whitman’s personal touch creates a surprise performance

02 September 2024

An author printed and signed copy of Walt Whitman’s 'Leaves of Grass' sold for $37,500 (£29,400) with buyer’s premium at University Archives.

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On an original visit to Busytown

02 September 2024

The children’s author Richard Scarry (1919-94) was at the peak of popularity when he published 'Nicky Goes to the Doctor' in 1972.

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Look through the keyhole courtesy of a grand picture book

02 September 2024

The 504-lot book sale at Potter & Potter (20% buyer’s premium) in Chicago on July 25 was topped by a four-volume set of one of the great records of the Gilded Age.

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