Auctioneers
The auction process is a key part of the secondary art and antiques market.
Firms of auctioneers usually specialise in a number of fields such as jewellery, ceramics, paintings, Asian art or coins but many also hold general sales where the goods available are not defined by a particular genre and are usually lower in value.
Auctioneers often provide other services such as probate and insurance valuations.
Auctioneers Addisons to close this summer
23 July 2015North-eastern auctioneers Addisons are closing down after almost a century in business.
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Provincial silver packs a £17,000 punch
22 July 2015This rare Irish provincial silver punch strainer took £14,000 at Lawrences’ latest sale in Crewkerne. Dated to c.1740-60, it is struck twice for Joseph Johns, one of only a handful of silversmiths working in Limerick in the middle of the 18th century.
Artcurial enhance Monaco presence
21 July 2015Paris auction house Artcurial have formed a new subsidiary to conduct regular sales in Monaco.
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Morphets appoint Nigel Smith as director
21 July 2015Nigel Smith, the Harrogate-based valuer and auctioneer, has joined Morphets of Harrogate as a director after 16 years at Tennants running their Harrogate office.
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Leighton’s study for Flaming June takes £135,000 at Sotheby’s
17 July 2015A study for one of Frederic, Lord Leighton’s (1830-1896) greatest paintings sold to an American private collector for £135,000 at Sotheby’s sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art.
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Godward’s dancer heads to online auction house
16 July 2015The online auction house Fine Art Bourse (FAB) has announced a major consignment for its first sale in September. An Ionian Dancer by John William Godward (1861-1922) will be offered with $300,000-400,000 estimate.
Stanley Gibbons buy online wine auctioneer
16 July 2015The Stanley Gibbons Group has bought online wine trading platform Bid for Wine.
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Bidding comes to rest at £23,000
16 July 2015This superbly patinated Shona hardwood headrest sold for £23,000 at only the second auction at new Stowmarket saleroom Bishop & Miller.
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Hôtel Drouot ‘pleased’ as 47 auctioneers and porters face trial
14 July 2015The Hôtel Drouot, the communal saleroom facility used by most Paris auctioneers, has welcomed the news that swathes of former staff members are to face charges relating to stolen property.
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Luba lights up Christie’s Exceptional sale at £5.4m
13 July 2015This striking 2ft 1½in (64.4cm) high Luba figural bowstand made c.1880 by the Warua Master was the runaway star of London’s high season sales.
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Recovered Rodin to be sold at Christie’s New York
13 July 2015A stolen Auguste Rodin sculpture, recovered after it was consigned to Christie’s in 2011, will go to auction later this year.
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Auctionata set €2.8m house record for Chinese clock
10 July 2015Berlin online auction house Auctionata set a house record when this Chinese enamel, ivory-mounted and paste-set musical and automaton clock was sold for €2.8m (£2.15m), or €3.37m including premium.
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Coastal landscape by Richard Parkes Bonington tops Christie’s Old Master auction
09 July 2015A rare painting by Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828) that had hung in the Prime Minister’s residence at 10, Downing Street for nine years led Christie’s evening sale of Old Master & British paintings in London.
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Bonhams HQ wins RIBA award
09 July 2015Bonhams’ New Bond Street saleroom has won a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architecture) 2015 National Award.
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Cranach the Elder leads Sotheby’s Old Master sale at £8.2m
08 July 2015Sotheby’s evening sale of Old Master and British paintings was led by Lucas Cranach the Elder’s La Bocca della Verità (The Mouth of Truth) which made a major auction record when it was knocked down at £8.2m.
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Auctioneer aids recovery of stolen Dutch museum art
07 July 2015Six paintings consigned to Gorringes of Lewes, East Sussex, have been returned to the Amsterdam Museum after being identified as those stolen from the Dutch institution over 40 years ago.
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Contemporary art week: some bumps on the record road
06 July 2015The latest series of Contemporary art auctions in London posted a bumper total despite the failure of some big-ticket lots.
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Rare Franz Sedlacek oil blooms at £85,000
02 July 2015An oil on panel by Franz Sedlacek (1891-1945), an Austrian artist prominent in the Vienna Secession group of painters, drew international bidding at Toovey’s of Washington, West Sussex.
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Restituted works headline Impressionist and Modern art auction series
29 June 2015A group of restituted paintings were among the highlights of a robust series of Impressionist and Modern art auctions in London.
Six major pieces of Impressionist and Modern art sold at auction following restitution settlements
29 June 2015Sotheby’s and Christie’s have well-established specialist departments for brokering deals on sale of Nazi-looted works returned to rightful heirs. Over the last decade some major pieces of Impressionist and Modern art have come to auction as a result of restitution settlements.
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