Print issue 2594 (27 May 2023)
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News
- The £19 Chinese box now worth £230,000
- Gallery holds Giambologna extravaganza
- ‘Earliest standard measure’ is the weigh to go
- Book, manuscript and Judaica record set in New York
- Debut sale boosted by Egyptian art collection
- TEFAF New York fair sales highlights
- Back down to reality for Modern and Contemporary art sales
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Bread and salt charger is welcomed on second visit
- Bid Barometer: issue 2594
- Precious metals prices: issue 2594
- Martinware birds flock to Salisbury
- News in brief including an appeal to trace stolen Sheffield silver
Auction Reports
- Casts of garden urns designed for Versailles offered in Oxfordshire
- Cumbrian house packed full of Mouseman
- Vesta micromosaic panel lights up a sale
- Snake cup buyer takes a £4000 bite
- Lawrence of Arabia replies to lucky Archie
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Bronte works hit saleroom heights
- Austen’s pride in her work
- Washington signature thrills in Philadelphia auction
- British and Irish book auctions: May 23-28, 2023
Feature
- POST-WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART: Rich pickings down south London
- Small Afnan works fly to four figures
- Certainly worth a handshake at £23,000
- Indian works making good progress
- Olympia picture sales at the double
- Ben Nicholson's sense of purity helps generate demand
- Tunnard not seen for half a century
- Buffet treats keenly contested at Drouot
- Calder on a roll at auction
- Gorky work from late on
- Get your claws into a Katz work
- Morandi keeps it simple
- Monochrome marvels at Paris sale
- Work by metal worker Wesselmann emerges in Munich
- Van Dongen visits the beach
- Christo Reichstag wrap study on offer
- Rare Hodgkin appearance in Germany
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Maurice Esteve visits London a second time
- The web shop window: A 'silent woman' pub sign
- Dealer news in brief including a show of works by artist Patrick Caulfield
- 5 Questions with Simon Clarke of Christopher Clarke Antiques
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Centres
Backpage
- A lawyer writes: Why it is crucial to avoid crossing the line from being potential purchaser to adviser
- Obituary: Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville