Auctions

This work is billed as the largest ever nude by Gustave Courbet (1819-77) to be offered at auction

The biggest surprise at a sale held by Schuler (23/20/16% buyer’s premium) came when the dramatic depiction of The Lion Hunt was offered for SFr3000

Objects from Norwich, York, Ireland and Newcastle in recent sales give a snapshot of the market

During the second half of the 19th and the early part of the 20th century, the German artist Ferdinand Keller (1842-1922) had a highly successful career as a painter of historical motifs, some imagined, some of a more documentary manner

This pair of silver-mounted frosted glass claret jugs has marks for James Samuel Hunt and London, 1844.

Boole’s 1847 paper would ‘find widespread use in the design of computers and communication systems’

Nelson memorabilia from a private collection in Devon was keenly fought over at Duke’s Spring auction.

This 18th century Chinese export reverse-painted mirror in a period gilt frame took a five-figure sum at auction.

Boris Vasilyevich Anrep (1883-1969), a Russian who lived and worked for most of his life in Britain, is not well known today.

This copy of 'The Study of Sociology' by Herbert Spencer is a first edition from 1875 in original cloth.

Forgotten today, a collection sold in Somerset remembers a multi-talented showman and author

A strong performer in the Anthony du Boulay (1929-2022) sale at Duke’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Dorchester was this 10in (24.5cm) enamelled chinoisierie milchglas vase.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions

A six-figure sum for Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff was the top lot of Christie’s drawing-focused sale.

Among the highlights of Sworders’ (25% buyer’s premium) latest Fine Interiors sale was a remarkable anthropomorphic funerary urn from Ecuador.

Simple Salford street scene dating from year after he left art school is now at £70,000 hammer price level

A spate of businesses taking stock and personal collections to the saleroom reflects wider changes in the market