Print issue 2445 (06 June 2020)
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News
- The grand reopening pushed back to June 15 for auction houses and antiques shops in England
- London Art Week adopts online focus
- Katz follows Valls with online success at Sotheby’s
- Export licensing unit reopens with digital applications
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Dinky cars made up of parts in South Africa add up to £6500 result
- Bid Barometer: issue 2445
- Watercolour reveals early West Dean look
- Precious metals prices: issue 2445
- News In Brief – including a Star Wars action figure making 50-times estimate in Newbury
Auction Reports
- Qing porcelain made for Islamic market and collection of European traveller shine at Chiswick sale
- Far Eastern works from Earls of Crawford and Balcarres lift auction North of the Border
- Gown from the wardrobe of Madame Lombard Bedaux turns heads at Essex auction
- ART MARKET: Happy returns for John Minton bankside scene
- Faces from Cecil Beaton’s book of the beautiful people
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Doing the bidding maths remotely
- Alphabet is a Birmingham bonus
- British and Irish book auctions: June 2-20, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- The Welsh stick chair: Turning the pages on a vernacular classic
- Visions of East Anglia – and Venice – at selling exhibition
- No place like home: Holly Johnson opens showroom in Knutsford
- Georges Folmer’s online retrospective
- Dealers Online: 23 books, maps and works on paper available from dealers' websites
International
- Personal items that belonged to Marie-Antoinette lead auction at Versailles
- Contrasting examples of the Viennese style in Dallas sale
- One hundred vintage sewing machines offered at Canadian auction
- Louis Wain’s Cubist cats bring strong overseas interest at New Zealand auction
- Phone bidders battle for white jade pendant plaques in Sydney
Letters
- Delivery and storage are a benefit of lockdown sales
- Supplement demonstrates book trade coping in crisis
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