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Diggelmann doubles auction high for a ski poster

03 February 2016

A new auction high for a ski poster was established at Christie’s South Kensington’s annual Ski sale, held on January 21, when this 1934 colour lithograph advertising the attractions of the Swiss resort of Gstaad sold for £62,000 (plus premium).

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Sales fall at big two as market shapes to cool

02 February 2016

Both Sotheby’s and Christie’s saw sales fall in 2015, a sign that the art market may be slowing.

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Damien Hirst ‘fakes’ flood the market

01 February 2016

Fake works purporting to be Damien Hirst studio paintings are circulating on the UK regional art and antiques market.

Two art recovery agencies in dispute

01 February 2016

An increasingly bitter spat between two UK art recovery agencies – the Art Loss Register and the Art Recovery Group – has reached the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.

ATG gets a new deputy editor

01 February 2016

ATG MEDIA has just welcomed a new deputy editor to the recently expanded editorial team.

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World’s largest indoor antiques show to move for 2017

29 January 2016

US Antique Shows, organisers of the ‘Original Miami Beach Antique Show’, have announced that the event will relocate to a new venue and a mid-February slot in 2017.

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Maiolica charger takes £210,000 at Sotheby’s

28 January 2016

Sotheby’s recent sale of royal and aristocratic heirlooms, titled Of Royal and Noble Descent, included this maiolica istoriato charger.