2017

Demand for Lucie Rie’s studio pottery is on a roll. The latest example in the saleroom came at Sotheby’s Made in Britain auction on September 13 when this yellow and bronze glazed bowl from the 1980s sold for £100,000 (plus premium).

More than 80 art and antique dealers are preparing for a new market event later this month in Marylebone.

British star of Gone with the Wind Vivien Leigh and Breakfast at Tiffany’s screen legend Aubrey Hepburn are the basis for auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s respectively next week.

A car owned by the winner of the first ever British Touring Car Championship back in 1958 was the highlight of Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival sale at the weekend, taking double its estimate.

Bid to £3100, some ten times the high estimate, a contemporary manuscript copy of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s ‘The School for Scandal’ sold at a recent Dominic Winter sale.

Howard Hodgkin (1932-2017) refused to have his own work hung where he could see it. Though the paintings he created were personal and intimate, he said that he had “absolutely no desire to collect my own work”.

An art dealer has been jailed for the theft of £500,000 worth of paintings.

Auctioneers Phillips have raised its buyer’s premium with the changes effective immediately.

‘Remember the Alamo’ is the famous battle cry of the Texans after their comrades were overwhelmed by a Mexican force in 1836. But have you heard ‘Remember Scarborough’?

A Poundland notebook helped convict a fraudster attempting to sell fake antiques through auction houses in London and Essex.

The boyfriend of the late silver dealer Robyn Mercer who was murdered in March last year has appeared in court charged with forging her will.

The wide and varied militaria and ethnographica collection of the civil servant and financial expert De Weledg. Heer P. Lamaison Van Heenvliet (1857-1941) will be offered later this month at Tennants of Leyburn.

A rare concert poster from a 1965 tour by ‘The Rolling Stones’ has been snapped up by a collector after a bidding battle at Bushey Auctions in Hertfordshire.

A new auction company holds its first sale next month with a focus on contemporary sculpture.

The Wells House and Gardens Antique Fair takes place this week.

The BBC's 'Fake or Fortune?' team uncovered the story behind two pictures possibly by Paul Gauguin during last night’s programme.

‘Property from a Hampstead Collection’ is how auctioneers Sotheby’s are billing a large consignment of works from a ‘beautiful house’ in the leafy north London suburb.

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers and others. This week a former cop calls the Met to action and tributes are paid to one of the arts’ leading lights.

Auction house Bonhams has a montage of motoring memorabilia and famous classic cars on the block today to coincide with the three-day festival at Goodwood Circuit in west Sussex.