Print issue 2540 (30 April 2022)
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News
- Bidding with abandon for Foucou’s Ariadne
- Returning tourists give business boost for Portobello Road
- Procter’s eyewitness account of Dunkirk, 1918
- The Beatles’ Shea Stadium poster sets $220,000 record
- PBFA looks for new flagship fair manager
- Family portrait returns to Sitwell summer home
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Gill depicts early days of Port Adelaide
- Mickey and Minnie race into pole position
- Bid Barometer: issue 2540
- News in brief – including a TEFAF grant for a museum to restore a picture by Vincent van Gogh
- Precious metals prices: issue 2540
Post-war & Contemporary Art
- Africa art on the rise
- Ethiopian dealership launches London base
- Hockney drawings and prints bring demand in the North and South
- McPhail auction record fleshed out to £20,500
- Artist Lynch keeps it real
- Surf’s up for Maggi Hambling
- Smaller Gear still packs plenty of punch
- Works by Bratby and Lowndes emerge at Halls
- Gore captures island charm
- Homage to pioneering art dealer at Sotheby’s Paris
- It’s a freeform design, by Jouve
- Baselitz: the remix version
- Distinctive body of work by Antes
- Kneffel is the realistic choice
- Bravo to ZERO
- Miro given stamp of approval
- Vasarely on repeat
- Gunter Fruhtrunk: Not just famous for a shopping bag
- Man Ray by his mate Warhol
- TEFAF New York back in the groove two years later
- Twin powers: artistic brothers
- Jim Moir fits the bill
- Homage to Hockney
- Portrait by royal approval
Auction Reports
- Indian pieces including jewellery owned by the mother of the Maharajah Duleep Singh attract bids at Bonhams
- Judge Gary’s celebrated service creates a stir
- Seven-foot pole club stretches well beyond estimate to £38,000
- Heal’s oak furniture purchased new in the 1930s
- Probable souvenir of earl’s Grand Tour at Summers Place Auctions
- Treen that’s all it’s cracked up to be
- Books and works on paper: Mitchell estate opens Forum sale
- Traveller finds a new angle at auction
- British and Irish book auctions: April 26-May 5, 2022
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- A universe created by Lalannes comes to Mayfair gallery
- Leafy design from Lady Anne
- 5 Questions: furniture dealer Paul Fitzsimmons
- Bronze stars in Birmingham’s NEC fair
- Dealer news in brief including a celebration of clocks with LAPADA dealers
- The web shop window: George III mahogany writing table
Fairs, Markets & Centres
- A round up of antiques fairs including a new event at Hartlebury Castle
- Retro fair makes call on name change
Letters
- True maker of a handsome lamp revealed
- Lalique perfume bottle decoration had a taste of blackcurrant
- Cost restriction meant not so mighty mouse
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Cover - Issue 2540