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News and previews of art and antiques sold at auctions throughout the UK and overseas, from multi-million-pound blockbusters to affordable collectables.
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Ian Bairnson’s Wuthering Heights guitar appears at Wiltshire auction
24 May 2024Ian Bairnson’s guitar featured in Kate Bush’s debut 1978 hit 'Wuthering Heights' is being offered at Gardiner Houlgate in Wiltshire.
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Rare collection of Fabergé animals to go to auction
22 May 2024Mostly acquired over a four-year period, a 20-lot collection of Fabergé animals comes to Elmwood’s
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American ‘freed slave’ badge soars above estimate at Ohio auction
22 May 2024This humble but hugely powerful object is a Charleston free badge, an oval copper planchet worn by a freed African slave in South Carolina in the 1780s.
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Dreweatts to offer Turner’s only known oil sketch from Liber Studiorum project
21 May 2024Two works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) have emerged from a private collection and will be offered at Newbury saleroom Dreweatts on June 12.
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Christie’s sales go ahead despite cyber attack
20 May 2024Auction house Christie’s went ahead with its sales last week as planned despite suffering a ‘technology security incident’ that brought down its website.
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Italian artist's detailed view of London exhibition emerges in Rome auction
20 May 2024Although the image may be familiar from stereoscopic photographs and engravings of the period, this view of the 1862 'London International Exhibition of Industry and Art' is an oil and canvas by the Italian painter Federico Moja (1802-85).
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French Revolutionary bonnet is among five lots to watch
20 May 2024With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week
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Chardin still-life among highlights at French auctions this season
20 May 2024Stand-out lots from upcoming sales including Chardin still-life, Napoleonic marshal's baton and fine art collection acquired over decades
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Flowers to soothe the pain of St Helena exile
20 May 2024This wreath of helichrysum (immortelle or everlasting) flowers was apparently sent to Napoleon on St Helena as a token of support from two of his sympathisers in London.
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Fixture list lined up two sports auctions in Glasgow
20 May 2024News that Celtic and Rangers no longer automatically qualify for the Champions League next season put a bit of a dampener on Scottish football.
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Actor Peter Barkworth also had a private passion for collecting
20 May 2024Despite Peter Barkworth’s very public profile his art collecting was a much more personal matter
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Laying down the laws for monks
20 May 2024Manuscript ‘sold in 1776’ at forerunner of Sotheby’s emerges in New York sale
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Merkle and his Meissen collecting mission
20 May 2024Focus on first part of a series of porcelain sales offering businessman’s collection
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Springtime brings Asian art focus to Paris
20 May 2024Annual specialist extravaganza held in Paris involves galleries, auction houses and museums
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Batty cricket idea ended up full of holes
20 May 2024Sports stars are always looking for small incremental improvements in performance that can prove crucial to the result.
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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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Prices high for Man Utd programme rarities
20 May 2024A football programme for for the Estudiantes de la Plata v Manchester United Intercontinental Cup final on September 25, 1968, hammered down at a top-estimate £10,000 in Shropshire.
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Art innovator Richardson’s collection comes to auction
20 May 2024Marion Richardson (1892-1946), a pioneer of the child art movement, was described as ‘one of the most influential art innovators of our time’.
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Bake to basics approach to bread making
20 May 2024Owen Simmons was a bit of a bread fan, it is fair to say. A lecturer at the National Bakery School in London, he produced the lavish book shown here.
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