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TEFAF opens 2025 applications for museum restoration fund and curators course
24 August 2024TEFAF offers emerging museum curators the chance to gain knowledge and network opportunities
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Late 19th century Polar exploration programme breaks the ice at auction
23 August 2024A remarkable late Victorian lecture programme on early polar exploration by the Norwegian explorer Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been discovered at Chaucer Auctions in Folkestone.
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Ancient intaglio ring sparks bidding battle and sells at four times estimate
23 August 2024An ancient Greek ring with a provenance that included Prince Stanislas Poniatowski, William Beckford and a Seagram heiress sold for $30,000 (£23,000) at an auction in the US.
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Unpublished Muhammad Ali photographs and film to be auctioned in Wiltshire
22 August 2024A series of unpublished photographs and film reel of Muhammad Ali (1942-2016) for a 1971 advert for a non-alcoholic beverage will be offered at RWB Auctions on September 11.
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Old Master flies to over 60 times estimate after 45 minute bidding battle
22 August 2024Following a contest involving hundreds of bidding increments, an early Netherlandish panel painting of ‘The Adoration of the Magi’ hammered for $332,000 (£256,000) at an auction in upstate New York this month.
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Dealer stages Austin Wright show at sculpture garden in North Yorkshire
22 August 2024Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden in North Yorkshire is hosting an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper by Austin Wright (1911-97).
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Rare set of Glaswegian silver spoons bring strong demand at Lyon & Turnbull
22 August 2024A remarkable set of six 17th century Scottish provincial silver trefid spoons drew strong competition at an auction in Edinburgh this week.
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Hats off to Indiana Jones after famous fedora makes $500,000
21 August 2024The famous hat was one of many props from blockbuster films to appear at Propstore’s August auction
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Close friends Prunella Clough and Keith Vaughan are focus of London dealer's show
21 August 2024A forthcoming exhibition explores the rich legacy of Prunella Clough and Keith Vaughan who broke with the conventions of post-war Britain
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Rediscovered John Constable painting of Hampstead emerges at Salisbury auction
21 August 2024A previously unpublished oil sketch by John Constable (1776-1837) depicting Hampstead Heath is coming up for auction next month at Woolley & Wallis.
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Air hostess' autographs collected onboard Concorde take off at auction
20 August 2024Concorde’s capability to fly at twice the speed of sound and travel from London to New York in three hours attracted the rich and famous of the time.
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Export bar placed on Alan Turing’s unpublished Second World War papers
20 August 2024A remarkable archive of newly discovered scientific papers by the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing and his collaborator Donald Bayley has been temporarily blocked from export.
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Kasper König, influential German curator dies aged 80
20 August 2024Known as the 'James Bond' of the art world, König was as colourful and controversial as the art and sculpture he supported
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Boy on tortoise comes out of its shell at £18,000
19 August 2024A rare Royal Doulton prototype model of a ‘Boy on a Tortoise’ found in a modest house in Rickmansworth has sold for an impressive £18,000.
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Abu Dhabi fund buys into the Sotheby’s brand to ‘support the company’s growth’
19 August 2024Sotheby’s owner Patrick Drahi has sold a stake in the company to an Abu Dhabi-based sovereign wealth fund.
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Opportunity Knox: Previously unknown design for Liberty & Co clock emerges in Glasgow auction
19 August 2024An apparently unique silver and enamel clock designed by Manxman Archibald Knox (1864-1933) for London retailer Liberty & Co surfaced for sale in Scotland last week.
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Bidders find their marbles at auction in East Sussex
19 August 2024A lot catalogued as ‘Vintage toys, including marbles, rifle, Marklin spinners and butterflies, etc’ that appeared in a Burstow & Hewett auction estimated at £40-70 rolled out a surprise.
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Manuscript copy of Leonardo da Vinci treatise tops third Brooker sale
19 August 2024Treatise about painting was a unique version among pre-publication copies thanks to the drawings
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Dealer Liss Llewellyn creates a window into world of Great Bardfield
19 August 2024This summer Liss Llewellyn is hosting an intriguing online show called 'Long Live Great Bardfield'.
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Seven-figure successes help celebrate saleroom 70-year anniversary
19 August 2024This year, Munich auction house Ketterer (32/27/22% buyer’s premium) is marking its 70th anniversary and the evening sale provided plenty of opportunities for celebration.
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