2024

Auction house reduces buyers’ and sellers’ fees but rivals are yet to follow suit

Online show features everything from fine art to furniture, Asian art to antiquities

Mostly acquired over a four-year period, a 20-lot collection of Fabergé animals comes to Elmwood’s

This humble but hugely powerful object is a Charleston free badge, an oval copper planchet worn by a freed African slave in South Carolina in the 1780s.

Two valuable Bronze Age gold artefacts have been stolen from Ely Museum in Cambridgeshire.

Two works by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) have emerged from a private collection and will be offered at Newbury saleroom Dreweatts on June 12.

London ancient coin dealers and auctioneers Roma Numismatics is to close.

With estimates from £400, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a ‘British School’ waterfall scene making 60 times estimate

Setting a record for any British-born female artist at auction, a surrealist painting by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) drew a lengthy bidding battle at Sotheby’s New York on May 15, taking the artist into a new league commercially.

Flagship event is scheduled for a later date and comes with new events for next edition

The napkin responsible for the signing of the teenaged Lionel Messi to FC Barcelona was sold by the player’s former agent at Bonhams

Lone thief took several high-value items of jewellery

A bidding battle broke out at Bellmans in West Sussex yesterday for an early and engaging portrait by Dod Procter (1890-1972), setting the second highest auction price ever recorded for the artist.

The guitar on which Clapton wrote 'Wonderful Tonight' carries an estimate of £300,000-400,000

Lucie Rie and other Modern masters delight buyers at recent fair

The model of a Blériot XI could be the earliest surviving aeronautical training model in existence

The parent company of auction houses Dreweatts and Forum Auctions has appointed a new chief executive.

Iron and gold inlayed casket depicting sieges of Boulogne sur Mer is attributed to court gunsmith and armourer Diego de Çaias.

Christie’s has been the victim of an apparent cyberattack that has brought down its website.