Print issue 2452 (25 July 2020)
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News
- New Burne-Jones digital catalogue raisonne shows scholars the way ahead
- Overseas buyer for Armada maps unless £600,000 is found
- Picking over the bones of £78,000 skeleton clock bidding
- Four salerooms, One $420m sale for Christie’s
- Partridge evolves from ‘too big’ sales to specialist events
- Welsh auction houses must wait to fully reopen – but online trading continues
News Digest
- Pick of the week: British collector snaps up Dürer print for €430,000 in Berlin
- Bid Barometer: issue 2452
- Transatlantic rook flies as souvenir chess piece sells at Oxford auction
- Precious metals prices: issue 2452
- News in Brief – including Frieze London and Frieze Masters being cancelled
Feature
- TOYS & COLLECTABLES: Hornby train sets still on the right track after 100 years
- Big benefits from miniature locomotives as Gildings offers large single-owner collection
- In a Whirligig at the £4800 return of Mr Turnip
- Airfix in full Attack Force against the Mad Barber and the Golden Bat
- All Action Man bidding at Norfolk sale
- Actor Julian Glover's Star Wars badge of rank offered at East Bristol Auctions
- Snaggletooth figure on offer
- The best of trench art emerges at Guernsey auction
- "Invaluable archive" of London Underground posters and drawings sells 17-times above estimate in Berkshire
- Raleigh Chopper: ‘It was the coolest of bicycles’
- Titanic sums for the best in White Star memorabilia
Auction Reports
- Golden Age longcase underlines long and lucrative career of great London clockmaker
- Bromsgrove metalwork blows estimates away
- Collectors compete for dial clock
- Vase designed by ‘father of art pottery movement’ makes 16-times estimate at Hansons
- Casket at Sevenoaks auction reflects rags to riches story
- Ivory in demand ahead of trade ban
- Maori greenstone brought to Britain by 1820s adventurer
- ART MARKET: Second slice from Country Life gardens editor's collection includes many works on a plants theme
- Early Cedric Morris works draw interest at Sworders
- Three buyers for four Bawdens drawings at Essex auction
- BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER: Copy of David Roberts' The Holy Land owned by its creator
- Last and lawless Just William makes appearance at Keys
- Early printed book in Arabic elucidates interest at Bloomsbury Auctions
- Kenneth Grahame’s letter on the loss of his son sells in Bristol
- Geniuses score six out of 10 in test at Bonhams
- British and Irish book auctions: July 21-Aug 1, 2020
Previews
Dealers’ Diary
- Active in August: Art and antiques dealers get down to business this summer
- Colnaghi caters for Mod Art fans
- London updated with a fifties festival
- Cliffs rise up at Pall Mall exhibition
- Osborne Samuel show includes Denis Mitchell yew sculpture
- Upcoming fair dates as 'Frieze' and 'Frieze Masters' join list of cancelled events
- A voyage of discovery as Robert Young releases extra catalogue this year
- Books unite the trade
- Dealers celebrate selling key items online from social media to online fairs
- Abbott & Holder promote Duncan Grant for the 21st century
International
- Netsuke nets a white-glove result
- East Germany nostalgia fuels demand
- Swiss painter admired by van Gogh now sought after by collectors
- Meet the Tudors in miniature form
- Another Batoni emerges from the wilderness
- Moroccan collector secures Dinet painting depicting Sahara culture
- Flamboyant Meissen ewer draws strong bidding at Wendl
- Artist Georg Schrimpf attracts flurry of bids at Van Ham
Fairs, Markets & Centres
Letters
- My own collecting odyssey
- I have drawn a blank
- ‘Constable’ – try the V&A for an opinion
- Our thanks to Bennie Gray
- New look for ceramics website
The Back Page
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