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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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Busy bar scene by Norman Cornish takes £16,000 in Yorkshire auction
18 July 2017The second highest ever price at auction for ‘pitman painter’ Norman Cornish (1919-2014) was set at the latest sale held at Tennants in Leyburn, Yorkshire.
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Watercolour portrait of ‘the three Brontë sisters’ takes top estimate at JP Humbert Auctioneers
18 July 2017Northamptonshire auctioneers JP Humbert has sold a painting that it says could be a portrait of the Brontë sisters by Edwin Landseer.
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Mark Law Dreweatts deal ‘delayed over funding’
17 July 2017The completion of Mark Law’s deal to buy auction house Dreweatts from stamp dealer group Stanley Gibbons has been delayed due to a change in financial backing for the £2.4m purchase.
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Rossetti ‘Lady Lilith’ portrait returns from Japan and sells for £560,000 at auction
17 July 2017A Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) portrait of his mistress Fanny Cornforth led Sotheby’s latest sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art in London.
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Superb 17th century armour result at Sotheby's thought to be an auction record
17 July 2017The musket and pistol ball test dents in the surface of a superb set of armour sold at Sotheby’s tell the story of how warfare was changing in the 17th century.
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Thomas More not the merrier at the Tower
17 July 2017Translated from a Paris version that had appeared earlier in that same year of 1535, an 8pp German newsletter giving an account of the execution of Thomas More sold for $11,500 (£9055) as part of the Eric Caren archive at Christie’s New York (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) on June 15.
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Larkin's Pope portrait condition impresses
17 July 2017An impeccably preserved portrait of Thomas Pope, later 3rd Earl of Downe, by William Larkin (1580-1619), led Bonhams’ (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) Old Master Paintings sale on July 5.
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Not amused – but happy to crochet
17 July 2017While it is well known that Queen Victoria sent her troops tins of chocolate boxes for Christmas in the second Boer War (1899-1902), the eight scarves she personally crocheted to send to individual soldiers are not so familiar.
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First French version of The Little Prince
17 July 2017Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s much-loved tale of The Little Prince was first published in New York in 1943, with Reynal & Hitchcock issuing it in both French and English versions.
Newton was master of the universe but not money
17 July 2017Sold by RR Auction (25/22.5% buyer’s premium) on June 14 was a financial document of November 1721 bearing the signature of Isaac Newton – an order to pay to a Dr Francis Fauquier the dividend due on his substantial investment in the South Sea Company.
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Bid Barometer
17 July 2017ATG’s selection of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com from the period July 6-12, 2017. This includes both the highest prices over estimate and the top prices paid online.
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Canaletto creates a Venetian crowning glory
17 July 2017A record-breaking Canaletto (1697-1768) drawing was the toast of the capital’s Old Masters drawings sales.
Happy birthday to Dickens 12 years late
17 July 2017The Charles Dickens Birthday Book, edited by his eldest daughter, Mary, and illustrated by his youngest, Kate, was published in 1882, 12 years after the writer’s death.
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Previews: £501 - £2000
17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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Galileo landmark astronomical work at auction
17 July 2017A 1610 first of Galileo’s Sidereus nuncius, a foundation work in modern astronomy, sold for €320,000 (£278,400) on June 15 at Minerva Auctions (25/18% buyer’s premium) of Rome.
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Previews: £30,000 plus
17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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New life breathed into Old Masters
17 July 2017Written off by some as a dying area, the latest Old Master series in London defied the naysayers with encouraging results during its traditional ‘grand finale’ slot at the end of the London sales season.
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Previews: Up to £500
17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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Previews: £5001 - £30,000
17 July 2017ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
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Artist who is now ruffling feathers
17 July 2017“If I was a dealer, I’d buy the whole lot and put on a show. He’s a sort of great ‘undiscovered’ artist.” Mimi Lay of the Penzance auction house David Lay is referring to a consignment of graphic art by the 20th century painter and lithographer Richard Platt (b.1928).
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