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Soviet artwork in London spotlight

20 November 2017

Soviet art is in the spotlight this month as the London salerooms mark the anniversary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution with a series of trophy consignments to Russian Art Week.

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A slapstick selection at the Ephemera Society's winter fair

20 November 2017

Performing arts dealer Sarah White is just one of many setting up at the event in London on Sunday, December 3, bringing with her some unusual panto playbills.

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Princess Diana in the spotlight at London fashion auction

18 November 2017

Featuring clothing and accessories from the 1600s-2010 – including dresses, coats, shoes, furs, handbags and costume jewellery - ATG offers a handful of highlights ahead of Kerry Taylor Auction’s next Passion for Fashion sale.

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Dealer Humphrey-Carrasco reviews future on Pimlico Road after court case disappointment

14 November 2017

A Pimlico Road antiques dealer is considering leaving the road after two decades following a court case over the redevelopment of a timber yard in the area.

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Capital double fairs showcase out west

13 November 2017

London is thick with antiques events this weekend and here we pick two specialist fairs in Kensington.

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Bonhams sits comfortably in Asian art auction series

13 November 2017

Bonhams capitalised on the strong market for classical Chinese furniture to set the two highest prices of the London Asian art auction series.

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Pick of the Week: Vancouver sextant discovery

13 November 2017

The name on the frame was the name of the game at Charles Miller’s November 7 auction in west London where a “rather tired and dirty” sextant sold for £28,000.

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We care about the art and antiques trade, says Department for International Trade

13 November 2017

The Department for International Trade (DIT) is to use its global influence to bring more art and antiques buyers to the UK.

Russian tea service

Previews: £30,000 plus

13 November 2017

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

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Geoffrey Clarke's sculpture brought together with new book and show

13 November 2017

Lists of artwork by Geoffrey Clarke (1924-2014) can read like a travelogue.

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Auction of Victoria Cross at Spink marks Passchendaele centenary

13 November 2017

“I died in hell – they called it Passchendaele,” Siegfried Sassoon famously wrote of the First World War carnage which ended in November 1917.

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Early Brits Fitz the bill at 25 Blythe Road auction

13 November 2017

Fitzroy Square to the north of central London was a key location in early 20th century British art. Virginia Woolf lived here for several years, a few doors down from Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler also had a studio.

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New editions at Forum Auctions

13 November 2017

Forum Auctions has expanded its modern and contemporary prints and editions department with two new appointments.

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They think it's all over: football 1966 World Cup commentator's RAF medals up at auction

11 November 2017

“They think it’s all over… it is now!” were the perfectly timed words uttered by TV commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme as England won the 1966 World Cup. Much less well known is that Wolstenholme (1920-2002) had a highly distinguished RAF service record in the Second World War.

Asian Art in London party

Asian Art in London 2017 – 10 shots from the gala party

10 November 2017

‘Asian Art in London’ celebrated its 20th birthday with a gala party in the British Museum’s newly refurbished Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery last night.

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And the winner is… find out who won the awards at ‘Asian Art in London’

10 November 2017

Two works of art, both fashioned from lacquer but very different in execution, scooped the 2017 ‘Asian Art in London’ awards for dealers and auctioneers.

Waldseemuller’s globe gores

The first map to name America – rediscovered copy of Martin Waldseemüller’s globe gores emerges at Christie’s auction

09 November 2017

A previously unrecorded set of globe gores that name America for the first time will be offered at Christie's in London on December 9.

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Yongzheng cups triple in value and lifts Sotheby’s Chinese art auction

08 November 2017

A pair of small but exquisite famille-rose decorated Yongzheng porcelain cups led Sotheby’s sale of Chinese art in London earlier today when they were knocked down at £1.6m. Offered as a single lot, the price was over three times the amount they had fetched at auction 13 years ago.

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Mayfair jeweller marks Russian revolution centenary with Fabergé exhibition

08 November 2017

Jewellery dealer Bentley & Skinner is marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution with an exhibition of work by Peter Carl Fabergé.

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Video showing cleaning of an early 17th century painting at Philip Mould goes viral

07 November 2017

An early 17th century painting of a woman in a red dress being restored at Philip Mould’s gallery has proved a hit with Twitter fans achieving more than 53k retweets and 130k likes within hours of it being posted.

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