Auctions

ATG’s pick of auction lots bought by internet bidders on thesaleroom.com, featuring both the highest prices over-estimate and the top prices paid online.

Institution based in Aberystwyth purchases five post-war works at regular dedicated Welsh auction

Tristram Hillier (1905-83) described the Surrealist pictures he created at Étretat, the picturesque town on the north-western coast of France, as “some of the best I have ever made”.

Our look ahead to some of the many stand-out items on offer at auctions this summer.

If proof were needed that regional British clockmakers were as capable of making impressive works as those of London colleagues, then an 18th century longcase clock being sold by Metz on July 19-20 in Heidelberg without reserve, provides it.

At the same time as a naval arms race was taking place in the years just before the First World War another maritime competition developed in the shape of liners.

Moses automaton watch is one of the stand-out hammer highlights in recent sales

Scale models such as these Grand Tour-era plaster of Paris models of classical temples were used as prototypes by architects and inspiration for their own designs

Porcelain from the Staffordshire factory takes up half a sale – and it’s just the first part of a huge collection

Our regular update of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Our selection of lots from 10 upcoming auctions

Found by a mudlark along the Thames in the early 2000s, these three well-preserved 1st-2nd century leather shoes would have once protected the feet of Roman children in Londinium.

Two early documents featuring female authors are among the highlights in a wide-ranging sale selection