Print issue 2520 (04 December 2021)
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News
- Portobello to be car-free on market days
- Pick of the week: Trading places in Japan with Edo period cabinet
- Life imitating art: £2.1m Lowry interior sells at auction
- Hunger strike medal reveals story of Suffragette with a pseudonym
- Age and name unknown – the $120,000 lady
News Digest
- Bid Barometer: issue 2520
- Shock result for the silver badge of courage
- Precious metals prices: issue 2520
- News In Brief – including news of the record copy of the US Constitution being loaned to a museum
Auction Reports
- Facts and figures: a collection formed with the "eye of a man who loved and knew his subject"
- Mauchlineware suited to a tee
- Hefty price for medals won by footballer ‘Fanny’
- Elizabethan sovereigns fit into white glove
- ART MARKET: Taking the underground route
- Demand for modern female artists remains on a high
- President portrayed in pastel
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Copies of Rosellini’s exceptional work on ancient Egypt emerges in Irish sale
- Tolkien classic takes £46,000 in Dorset
- Bound for a church career
- Cure for a ‘Hectick ffeavour’
- British and Irish book auctions: November 30-December 10
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- New moves, fresh opportunities
- Antiquities specialist David Aaron's Mayfair move
- Wartski expert’s V&A showcase
- The web shop window: Victorian silver wager cup
- Dealer forges new Lincs with pop-up show
- Gabain dishes out ennui at Abbott and Holder exhibition
- 5 Questions: Florrie Evans of The Fine Art Society
International
- Russian icon inspires bidding battle in Germany
- Artist supervised by Matisse met a tragic end in wartime
- Venice in large format in Vienna
- Late 18th century clock to turn heads in German auction
- New direction in von Bechtejeff’s career
- German Expressionist Arnold Topp headlines Munich auction
- Botticelli fascination in Heidelberg
- Emperor’s bell set to shake things up in Stuttgart
- Cologne saleroom issues a call to arms
- Fresh nightmare after Bosch
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- Bibliophiles spoilt for choice with one live and two online book fairs on the way
- Why this Italian majolica charger may represent a recurring dream
- Still nuts about antiques after 40 years in business