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High-value Post-war and Contemporary art is increasingly on offer beyond Mayfair and the centre of the capital

This classy teak wine cooler exudes Mid-century style, all clean lines and simplicity.

Two separately consigned Modern Indian paintings were among the notable performers at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) in the early spring, one fetching an expected price but the other making a sum that was more of a surprise.

French artist Nancy Delouis (b.1941) was born into an artistic family.

Painted just after the Second World War, this Surrealist landscape by John Tunnard (1900-71) depicts a series of futuristic antennae, ancient megaliths and henges – plus the ‘dry tree’ motif the artist used as a symbol of destruction and death.

With the museum dedicated to the French artist Maurice Estève closed for renovation, a St James’s gallery is displaying watercolours this summer.

Six of the 45 distinctive designs from the artist’s spectacular London villa emerge at auction

This view of Wadham College, Oxford, by William Crotch (1775-1847) is the first and earliest in a catalogue of his works on show at Guy Peppiatt Fine Art.

Some exceptional pocket watches were offered for sale at Bonhams in Knightsbridge on May 11.

Has the film 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' raised demand for the artist?

After a four-year absence the Church Street Antiques Fair is returning to Marylebone in London on Sunday, June 11.

Shown here are pages from an extremely long, hand-coloured aquatint record on one continuous folding strip just a little over 4in tall, but a work that would extend to around 19ft (5.8m) if fully opened.

Welcome focus on women painters in recent years shows no sign of slowing down amid great interest and demand

The London Map Fair, which bills itself as the world’s oldest and largest event of its kind, is widening its scope.

Rising to be Admiral of the Fleet during the War of the Spanish Succession, Sir Chaloner Ogle (1680-1750) had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy.

A copy of Johann Kraft’s 'Pomona Austriaca' (Fruit Trees of Austria) featuring both the French and German texts as well as 100 hand-coloured plates is on offer at this spring’s Bloomsbury Book Fair Spring Event.

A 13th century Mamluk (Egyptian or Syrian) manuscript on astronomy sold for a surprise £140,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium) in south London on April 28.

The PBFA’s London International Antiquarian Book Fair takes place on May 20-21. Book dealer and PBFA publicity manager Jeremy Carson explains to ATG what to expect this year

'Firsts: London’s Rare Book Fair' is returning to its usual May schedule this year and is committed to a spring date.

When the Bletchley Park boffins were taking a break from code-breaking in the Second World War, complicated puzzles were one of the diversions.