Print issue 2488 (17 April 2021)
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News
- Shops and antiques centres open doors again this week
- Coin auction houses end four-year joint venture
- S Franses returns to court over lease dispute
- Dealers prove game for countryside fair
- View of the Thames by Victorian artist stuns market with six-figure sum at Bonhams
- Trophies from a Victorian family of England internationals
- Ritual bronzes unearthed in Yorkshire come to auction at Hansons
- Art Market Participants: AMLS rebrands as ECS
- Murrle Bennett: the Anglo-German style
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Apollino copy that stands up for itself
- Bid Barometer: issue 2488
- Gentileschi’s Lucretia acquired by the Getty
- Precious metals prices: issue 2488
- News in Brief – including a line up of physical events planned by BADA Friends
Feature
- JEWELLERY: how the enigmatic designs of Jugendstil are still bringing youth culture to the 21st century
- Multi-gem necklaces: ‘Perfect for the enquiring mind’
- Modernist market thrives for Grima and Gard
- Storied jewels from Mountbatten
- Royal jewels at Christie’s and Sotheby’s including a tiara that you can try on virtually
- The gems of Rani Jindan offered at Bonhams
- New audience brings tiara back in vogue
- And they’re off in Salisbury
- Parsons’ cameo role at Bonhams
- Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the mandolin
Auction Reports
- Mdina Glass and Leon Osman silver shine bright
- The £15,000 delft puzzle solved
- Beaton photos flourish in the saleroom
- ART MARKET: Sister act – Augustus John portraits
- Top sum for a van Gogh drawing at Christie's
- Archibald Thorburn seagulls fly high at Tennants
- Harwood’s two for one offering
- Proud Yorkshireman’s view of God’s Own Country
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: A very worthwhile exercise in auction value
- Why the Defiance should be remembered as well as the Alamo
- British and Irish book auctions: April 13-23, 2021
- Renaissance herbal without equal
- Riddle of the jacket on Childers’ work
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Ingenious furniture designs for army officers on campaign are highlighted in Cotswolds exhibition
- Tiepolo study motivated by motifs offered by London dealer
- Battersea Dec reflects the new way of doing business
- The web shop window: John Bratby's portrait of Guy the Gorilla
- Showcase of lesser-known Spanish art at Colnaghi
- Amsterdam tribal fair online, take two
- 5 Questions: tribal art dealer and fair organiser Finette Lemaire
International
- Collection comes to Munich auction after royal family avoided the Nazis then fled Soviets
- Korean box emerges in Cologne sale
- Chinese bidders drawn to Germany
- Russian artists who preferred the Parisian scene
- Bayrle underlines his commercial value
- Model 1080 could be a sound investment
- Odysseus casts his gaze down on a tea-salon
- Ritual figure from Rapa Nui and sells in Germany
- Seasonal offering of fruit and flowers in Berne auction
- Make a house visit to see Walter Schulz-Matan
- Designer Bertoia the diamond pleaser
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Antiques centre launched in idyllic location after chance meeting with country estate owner
- Dorking dealers prepare to reopen premises as lockdown eases
Letters
- Medway Queen would have been flying white ensign, not blue
- The Old Master left next to my garage
- Triptych ‘salvaged from a church’
Backpage
- A lawyer writes: Wise words of advice when it comes to valued clients and expectations
- Do you think it’s by van Duck?
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