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Art and antiques news from 2015
It was all change at the top in 2015 with Tad Smith replacing Bill Ruprecht as CEO of Sotheby's, Patricia Barbizet taking over from Stephen P Murphy as CEO of Christie's and Matthew Girling moving up to the role of global CEO at Bonhams.
Stephan Ludwig and Ian Goldbart, creators of the group of businesses that include Dreweatts, Baldwin's and Mallett, suddenly departed in the early autumn of 2015.
Dealer association BADA brought in an industry outsider as its new CEO - Marco Forgione, former head of events industry trade body EVCOM.
In other news, dealer Richard Green made his debut at Masterpiece in London, cementing the fair's place as a major event in the annual calendar.
The antiques industry waited nervously to see whether the newly elected Conservative government would carry out its manifesto pledge to "press for a total ban on ivory sales".
Hugh Scully and the early Information Superhighway
15 October 2015With the death of ex-Antiques Roadshow presenter Hugh Scully at the age of 72, former Antiques Trade Gazette editor Ivan Macquisten looks back at what happened when he launched an online valuations business with the internet still in its infancy.
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New highs for Lucie Rie and Peder Moos as Phillips’ design sale gives boost to London hub
15 October 2015London’s growing importance as a hub for Modern design – boosted with the imminent return of sales at Sotheby’s – was underlined this month with records at Phillips in Mayfair.
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Blue John shines in the Midlands
14 October 2015After viewing events in London, Derbyshire and at the Antiques for Everyone fair in Birmingham, Fellows held their much-anticipated Blue John Sale in the Jewellery Quarter last week.
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All Blacks jersey sets world record for a rugby shirt
13 October 2015Lot number one in Rogers Jones’ latest sale provided both a world record result and a house record for the Welsh auctioneers.
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Constable sketch brings £252,000 in Exeter
13 October 2015A John Constable (1776-1837) oil sketch drew prolonged competition at the latest auction held at Exeter saleroom Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood.
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Shackleton medals draw bidders at Christie’s auction
12 October 2015The collection of medals awarded to Ernest Shackleton, the most decorated of the Polar explorers, excelled at a recent Christie’s South Kensington sale.
Italian trade lobby to change export laws
12 October 2015Stakeholders in the Italian art market will meet lawmakers this week in the hope of overturning legislation they say has hampered the country’s art market for a century.
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De Pury volte face as Lambert collection sale to be held with new partner Christie’s
09 October 2015Simon de Pury’s sale of the Lambert collection, trailed as a litmus test for high-end digital auctions, will now be conducted as a bricks and mortar event from the rostrum at King Street.
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Bonhams: airing on a TV screen near you
08 October 2015Bonhams have launched a new brand campaign centred on TV advertising. It is the first time that a major international auction house has advertised on TV.
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A shock to the senses: New Jersey sleeper thought to be early Rembrandt
07 October 2015This painting, found by John Nye of Bloomfield, New Jersey saleroom Nye & Company Auctions leaning up against a cellar wall, became one of the sleepers of the year on September 22.
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A second turn of The Lock – Constable heads to Sotheby’s with £8-12m estimate
06 October 2015Three years after Christie’s sold an earlier version for £20m, a second version of John Constable’s (1776-1837) The Lock is being offered at Sotheby’s Old Master & British Paintings Sale on December 9.
Architects of Dreweatts group to leave
05 October 2015Stephan Ludwig and Ian Goldbart, creators of the group of businesses that includes Dreweatts, Baldwin’s and Mallett, are understood to have left parent company Stanley Gibbons.
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Ascot Cup shines at Felix Dennis collection sale
05 October 2015The 1864 Ascot Cup, an impressive Victorian silver racing trophy by Garrard, led proceedings at the three-day sale of the Felix Dennis (1947-2014) collection. It sold at £67,000.
Sir Norman Rosenthal on the trade
05 October 2015Sir Norman Rosenthal, one of the art world’s best known historians and curators, has described the trade side of the business as “a huge mechanism for preserving knowledge and value”.
Trust drop plan for market building at ‘Portobello Village’
02 October 2015The charity behind the vision to revamp the ‘vintage market’ end of Portobello Road has amended its designs in the face of opposition to a key proposal.
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Grand Tour model brings corking result
02 October 2015A Grand Tour cork model of the Temple of Zeus at Paestum has sold for £44,000 at Hampstead Auctions in north London.
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Pioneering Aborigine sportsmen who toured with cricket bats as well as boomerangs
01 October 2015An embossed brass belt buckle discovered in the back garden of an old English cottage is a reminder that the very first Australian side to tour England was one made up entirely of Aborigines.
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Pelham collection pulls all the right strings in Derby
30 September 2015Bimbo The Giant Clown was the beaming white face of Pelham Puppets for decades.
Grey areas emerge in new consumer act
30 September 2015A new law giving online auction buyers additional consumer protection rights has been criticised for throwing dealers and auction houses into a legal grey area.
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The shirt of original All Blacks legend
30 September 2015Timing is everything in sport and at auction. With New Zealand firm favourites to retain the Webb Ellis Cup on October 31, this is surely the moment to sell the jersey of a legendary All Black.