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A previously lost and unpublished work by Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789-1869) sold for €104,000 (£87,000) as part of the Tajan (26% buyer’s premium) latest Old Master Paintings and Drawings sale.
The only known bass drumhead featuring John Bonham’s personal symbol – the interlocking rings that became his mark after Led Zeppelin’s fourth album – knocked down at $70,000 (£53,000) plus 25% ...
The 10th edition of TEFAF New York returns between May 9-13. One London dealer is hoping to make a splash with its first showing ...
A group of 19 album leaves from the celebrated ‘Imperial Manual of Birds’ have been discovered in homes in Dorset and London. Roseberys has given the paintings, originally part of a natural history ...
The latest Design Since 1860 sale at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh was dominated by the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). The auction house said works by Mackintosh have "great ...
The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of efforts to establish whether antiques will be ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has bought a 16th-century painting by Spanish Renaissance painter Luis de Morales (1509-86). It was acquired in a private sale from London dealer Daniel Katz ...
A painting by Terence Cuneo depicting the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath has sold for £60,000 at Sworders. Cuneo’s rendition of a famous news photograph of the momentous event had been expected to ...
With estimates from £800, here are five previews of items coming up at auction this week A timed online auction at The Pedestal closing on April 24 includes this Geor… ...
The oldest known medieval Jewish artefact, a Kiddush cup from the 11th or 12th century, is being offered at Sotheby’s later this year. Examples of medieval Judaica are rare – less than two dozen ...
Dealer Les Enluminures has sold a ‘pioneering-feminist’ medieval manuscript to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
A Victorian model of an RNLI lifeboat sailed past its £700-900 estimate to hammer down at £7500 (plu… ...