Fine Art

An Old Master painting hung in the spare bedroom of a family home in Oxfordshire sold for a surprise £440,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium) at Holloway’s of Banbury.

Tutu, a previously lost portrait by Ben Enwonwu (1917-94) of the Ife royal princess Adetutu Ademiluyi set a new record for the artist at Bonhams’ Africa Now auction.

More than 100 paintings owned by the Royal Society of Marine Artists were dispersed in a Norfolk auction.

The 20th century portraitist Meredith Frampton (1894-1984) achieved remarkable success in a relatively short career.

Works by Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973) dominated the latest series of Impressionist and Modern art auctions in London, with Gurr Johns securing nearly all of them.

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Max Andrews of fine art dealer Ottocento has worked in the art world for more than 20 years and will next exhibit at the upcoming BADA 2018 fair.

The Buckinghamshire countryside, with its rolling hills, fields, hedgerows and trees, inspired much of the art of John Nash (1893-1977), the younger and less well-known brother of Paul Nash.

J’y Reste (I am there) is a clay sculpture evoking a symbolic birth created by Brigitte Moity in her studio at Savigny-sur-Orge, a suburb of Paris.

A portrait thought to depict one of the most notorious characters of the Jacobean age drew strong bidding in Canterbury.

Olivier Malingue launched his eponymous New Bond Street gallery in 2016 and has devoted its business to bringing older pieces into contemporary frameworks.

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