Print issue 2617 (11 November 2023)
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News
- Dealers full of praise for Frieze Masters after success of 2023 event
- Feast from the yeast: mini Reynolds for sale
- Penzance gallery celebrates contribution of local collectors to exhibitions ahead of auction
- Chinese bronze hands vendor big reward
- Pioneering English astronomy book takes five-figure sum at Hansons auction
- Banknotes sale is best ever at Newbury auction house SAS
- Roman marble sold in 1961 auction resurfaces in Italy headless… but the head could be in UK
- Rie and Coper records fall in landmark sale
News Digest
- Pick of the week: Early tin-glazed earthenware takes 130 times top estimate
- Sporting art stands out in country house sale
- News in brief including the death of dealer John Read Smith
- Bid Barometer: issue 2617
- Precious metals prices: issue 2617
Auction Reports
- Sundial displays Coade stone qualities
- Gatehouse panels greeted visitors to earl’s new country seat
- Keep an eye on the Cartier time
Special Report
- Modern and Contemporary art: middle market for 20th century makes a greater impact
- Go fishing to catch a Prunella Clough work in Canada
- Sculpture from McWilliam's Women of Belfast series comes up for auction
- Lismann definitely not forgotten by collectors
- Ethel Walker works stand out in the saleroom
- The name’s Bond: Jane Bond
- Laurence Biddle brings a bidding battle
- Strong Winifred Nicholson result outside London
- The wheel deal: Zinkeisen’s unchained melody
- Pierre Soulages in a dark mood (again): two previews
- Klapheck gets on his bike
- Multiple attractions of Boetti
- Paris puts on an auction show at fair time
- The sound of eighties classics
- Magritte painting makes its first appearance at auction
- Looking at the bigger picture: Goetz Valien monumental work
- In step with Guerrand-Hermès
- Howard Hodgkin opens a Moroccan door
Books & Works On Paper
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Frieze Masters racks up the sales
- The web shop window: A 'frozen moment' piece of pop art
- Organiser aims to deliver for dealers at Harrogate fair
International
- Scroll on Song in the Windy City
- Riding in with Carter provenance
- Baskets bring in the bidders
- Shi Lu picked out at $430,000
- Exquisite Chinese sleeper – but not in best condition
- Mystery painting unites two nobles
- Table suitable for Grand Tour big buyer
Fairs, Markets, Shops & Cen
- Suffolk village’s charms include two fairs and three antiques shops
- ‘We can deal with stray shells - but not heartbreaking monotony’
Fair Report
Backpage
- A lawyer writes: Russia – a labyrinthine world of sanctions regulations
- Letter: Well done to Kempton fair organiser for taking dealer security seriously
- Obituary: antiques dealer Lily Mitchell
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