A hammer price of £300,000 sounds like a pretty hefty sum for any print sold in the UK regions. But when it comes to the legendary Katsushika Hokusai’s (1760-1849) ‘Great Wave’, it’s actually a ...

A large gold, enamel and gemset jewel combining the talents of two giants of French Art Nouveau has surfaced for sale in Southend-on-Sea. Chalkwell Auctions in Essex sold the 4in (10cm) corsage brooch ...

A prop from the 1941 film Citizen Kane was hammered down at a record $11.5m ($14.75m including premi… ...

A group of prints tucked away in the basement of Kent County Council’s County Hall in Maidstone have sold at a Sworders auction. Comprising approximately 350 lithographs, linocuts, screenprints, ...

Book dealership Sotheran’s is the latest victim of cyber criminals. The website of the rare books and prints firm was fraudulently cloned in Singapore using a variation… ...

Woolley & Wallis sold the first tranche of the private collection and stock of silver specialist Michael Baggott (1973-2025) on July 16. All but one of the 152 lots were sold with a hammer total of ...

Details of how to manage the new European Union regulations on importing cultural goods have emerged, sending shockwaves through the art and antiques trade. Dealer associations including International ...

Sotheby’s has launched a new series of podcasts titled ‘The Specialist’ in which the auction house’s experts give a behind-the-scenes look at the auction world. Each 10-minute episode focuses on a ...

LAPADA dealers will not take part in this summer’s 'The Game Fair'. Art and antiques dealers had been part of the event since 2021. At this summer’s fair, running from … ...

The late US dealer Richard L Feigen (1930-2021) handled works by numerous artists over his long career. But two of the names with whom he became most associated were Max Beckmann (1884-1950) and ...

A funerary stela was essentially the ancient Egyptian equivalent of a tombstone, … ...

The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of JMW Turner’s first exhibited oil painting coming to Sotheby’s after being spotted at a regional sale last year.