UK

The United Kingdom accounts for more than one fifth of the global art market sales and is the second biggest art market after the US.

Through auctioneers, dealers, fairs and markets - and a burgeoning online sector - buyers, collectors and sellers of art and antiques can easily access a vibrant network of intermediaries and events around the country. The UK's museums also house a wealth of impressive collections

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Autographs collected on board Concorde head to auction

14 August 2024

Autographs collected aboard Concorde by an air hostess will go up for sale at Hansons in Derbyshire on August 20.

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Penzance saleroom Lay's stage inaugural studio pottery auction

14 August 2024

Lay’s inaugural 'Studio Pottery Sale' is due to take place on September 6 in Penzance.

Harold Cohen AARON drawing

Example of early AI art in demand at Chiswick Auctions

14 August 2024

As with most other areas of life, it remains difficult to say at present whether artificial intelligence will end up having a transformational effect on the art market or not.

Thomas Mathison's The Goff

Copy of earliest printed book dedicated to golf doubles estimate in Cornwall

13 August 2024

The latest Books & Works on Paper sale at Lays in Penzance included a copy of the first printed book entirely dedicated to golf: Thomas Mathison’s ‘The Goff. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In three Cantos....’

Hop Picking by Dame Laura Knight

Bidders pick out a Laura Knight painting in Gloucestershire

13 August 2024

A painting by Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) depicting hop pickers more than doubled estimate when it appeared at Gloucestershire saleroom Kinghams (25% buyer’s premium) last month.

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Rare Royal Doulton prototype of a 'Boy on a Tortoise' sells at Sussex auction

12 August 2024

A rare Royal Doulton prototype model of a 'Boy on a Tortoise' was found in a modest house in Mill End in Rickmansworth.

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Lock from Florence Nightingale encapsulates the diverse lots in a North Yorkshire auction

12 August 2024

One of the more unusual items on offer at Tennants’ (20% buyer’s premium) Summer Fine Sale was a lock of hair from the 19th century nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale (1820-1910). It was thought to have been cut in 1883 when she was 63 years old.

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Pick of the Week: Celtic torc talked of as a Co Cork find

12 August 2024

This Celtic silver ‘ribbon’ torc, or armlet was made – perhaps in Ireland – sometime in the period between c.500BC-500AD.

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Cleethorpes also so bracing as Skegness as LNER poster demonstrates

12 August 2024

While the famous railway poster featuring the Jolly Fisherman (see ATG No 2653) promoted Skegness, the example shown here was intended to tempt holidaymaker to another Lincolnshire seaside resort.

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‘Compositions of real class’ strengthen their appeal

12 August 2024

Leading several modestly pitched highlights at Ewbank’s (25% buyer’s premium) in Surrey last month was this signed charcoal portrait of a girl by Welsh painter Augustus John (1878-1961).

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Bellmer’s descending nude hammered down at £95,000

12 August 2024

German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-75) explored themes of desire, sexuality and the subconscious mind through his surrealistic sculptures, drawings and photographs.

Rose & Brown on the rise in North Yorkshire

12 August 2024

Caroline Brown of Rose & Brown Vintage Fairs is launching a vintage event in North Yorkshire.

Obituary: Portobello Road antiques dealer John Odgers

12 August 2024

John Odgers passed away peacefully on July 13 aged 82.

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More than 400 dealers ready to go

12 August 2024

The next edition of the antiques vintage fair run by Love Fairs at the Kent Showground is on Saturday and Sunday, August 31 to September 1.

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Newcastle fair under starter’s orders

12 August 2024

Event launched in the north-east becomes latest to be staged at an ever-popular racecourse venue

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Five questions with costume and luggage dealer Leslie Verrinder

12 August 2024

Leslie Verrinder started with an accessories stall in Camden but is now a happy fixture in Alfies Antique Market on Church Street, north-west London.

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The Hobbit stands tall for new auction high

12 August 2024

Spotlight on copy sold in superb Strutz collection – plus a look at other recent results for the Tolkien classic

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Find bargains and a beer at So Last Century's new market in Gipsy Hill

12 August 2024

Alan Old of So Last Century has started a new antiques market at the Gipsy Hill Brewery’s Taproom, near Crystal Palace in south London.

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Sir Alfred Munnings work trots back to rostrum 20 years later

12 August 2024

Oil sketch appears at auction two decades on but overall the artist’s premium works are in short supply

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Roll up, roll up for an auction extravaganza of fairground memorabilia

10 August 2024

All the fun of the fair comes to Bonhams New Bond Street with a sale featuring an array of vintage and antique fairground figures and carvings, ride seats shaped as animals, games and posters.

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