Art Market

Rediscovery of overlooked female artists is a welcome reappraisal – and driving ever-higher prices

An early printed work by David Hockney (b. 1937) comes for sale at Ahlers & Ogletree in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 14.

'Femme a la Mandoline' was among the first paintings in what would become Tamara de Lempicka’s (1898-1980) full signature Art Deco style.

With crossover appeal between modern prints and vintage fashion, this Souper Dress attracted strong attention at a recent US sale.

Music legend’s art collecting was little known but prolific

The so-called ‘Four Indian Kings’ were not the first native Americans to visit Britain.

'Only Banksy' was the title of a 24-lot offering at Forum Auctions (30/24/15% buyer’s premium inc VAT) in London.

Among the Modern British prints generating interest at auction this summer was a copy of Edward Bawden’s (1903-89) linocut 'The Road to Thaxted'.

Two portraits and a shipping scene by the Newlyn School artist were consigned from three different sources

Regular followers of the modern Welsh art market will know that strong competition at Rogers Jones’ (24% buyer’s premium) specialist Welsh sales normally comes for an artist called Williams.

A dedicated sale of 117 lots from the collection of the late Teesside art dealers and Staithes Group specialists Tom and Rosamund Jordan was held this summer at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) in North Yorkshire.

One of the better performing ‘manner of’ pictures of late was a landscape very much in the style of the great French Baroque painter Claude Lorrain (1600-82).

Trio of works by the Hungarian artist underlines the appeal of portraits as conversation pieces

When it comes to portraits produced by Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962), values are frequently determined by the fame of the sitter.

Since the 1960s, birds have been the main subject matter of New Zealand artist Raymond Ching (b.1939).

With the traditional hiatus in the UK auction market typically stretching across the month of August, a number of notable picture highlights appeared slightly earlier this summer at sales around the country.

Coastal scene formerly owned by collector in the diamond mining industry attracts considerable interest

What’s best to do with unsold lots… offer them again at half the price guide perhaps?

The artist Richard Ernst Eurich (1903-92) is rather hard to categorise.

Testing the market for still-lifes by Bloomsbury school favourite Duncan Grant (1885-1978), a painting by the artist emerged fresh from a notable source in Somerset.