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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.
Anthony Browne: Our man in Westminster
17 July 2017The art market’s chief spokesperson pursues a policy of quiet diplomacy. Now armed with a new report on the British art market, Anthony Browne has something he wants to shout about
Delay in Stanley Gibbons' sale of auction house Dreweatts to Mark Law
14 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 deal.
New appointment to help Phillips develop the ‘strongest contemporary department in the business’
11 July 2017Jean-Paul Engelen of Phillips has been appointed deputy chairman, Americas.
Two appointments to Fine Art Society's board of directors
10 July 2017Rowena Morgan-Cox and Sara Terzi have been appointed to the board of directors of The Fine Art Society (London and Edinburgh).
De Pury ‘cut out of gentleman’s agreement’
10 July 2017A claim by former auctioneer turned art-advisor Simon de Pury that he is owed $10m for facilitating the sale of a work by Paul Gauguin was heard before the High Court in London last week.
Jon Baddeley, head of Bonhams Knightsbridge, on the importance of maintaining two salerooms in London
10 July 2017Bonhams Knightsbridge is keen to assert its place in London’s evolving auction scene, managing director Jon Baddeley tells ATG.
Evolution of a book business
10 July 2017Charles Darwin’s great-great-grandson has opened an antiquarian bookshop in the headquarters of an online used books business.
The gadget man lends rarities for Birmingham display
10 July 2017From the moustache spoon and the nose-shaping device to the washing machine, the period following The Great Exhibition of 1851 was a time of prolific invention in the UK.
Art appointment in Paris
10 July 2017Fleur Callegari has joined the team of Les Enluminures as art director. She will be based in the Paris gallery of this firm which specialises in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, miniatures and jewellery (the gallery has other bases in Chicago and New York).
SOFAA dinner 2017 in pictures
10 July 2017Temperatures are usually high in London when the Society of Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers (SOFAA) hosts its biennial dinner and this year was no exception. The heat outside didn’t dissuade attendees from donning black tie and high heels to the event at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in Knightsbridge on June 30.
Victoria Borwick's SOFAA speech: what dealers need from auctioneers
03 July 2017BADA president and former MP for Kensington, Victoria Borwick, addressed SOFAA's biannual gathering of auctioneers on June 30. She tackled auctioneer-dealer relations, the ivory question, parliament's understanding of the antiques trade and the cultural property bill.
Why the Blairman bunch do like to be beside the seaside
03 July 2017Furniture and works of art dealer Martin Levy took a trip to the north Wales seaside recently.
Mark Law to revive general sales at Dreweatts
26 June 2017The new owner of Dreweatts in Newbury is to bring back a monthly general sale.
Obituary: Samuel ‘Beau’ M. Freeman II (1936-2017)
26 June 2017Samuel Miller Freeman II – known to all as Beau – was a fixture in the Philadelphia auction scene for just shy of six decades.
Interview: How to survive in a climate of fear
26 June 2017‘How Western Art Collectors are Helping to Fund Isis’ (Guardian), ‘Broken System Allows Isis to Profit from Looted Antiquities’ (New York Times), ‘How Antiquities are Funding Terrorism’ (Financial Times). In 2015, news of looting and the destruction of ancient sites in the Middle East by the fanatical Islamic terrorists Isis began to gain worldwide attention.
Sotheby’s promotes finance division boss Jan Prasens to managing director of Europe
19 June 2017Sotheby’s has promoted Jan Prasens to managing director of its Europe division.
Obituary – James ‘Jim’ Collingridge (1930-2017)
19 June 2017My father, Jim Collingridge, FGA, DGA, former deputy chairman of Christie’s South Kensington, died on June 3 at the age of 86.
Moves and appointments
12 June 2017ATG’s selection of appointments in the art and antiques industry.
BADA’s Borwick loses Kensington seat
12 June 2017Victoria Borwick, president of the British Antiques Dealers’ Association, lost her Kensington seat following two recounts in the constituency at last week's General Election.
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