A RARE recorded interview with Staffordshire's famous potter Clarice Cliff will be heard for the first time at a Stourbridge auction and exhibition.

Fieldings Auctioneers is hosting the auction - the first official large-scale Clarice Cliff Collectors Club to be held outside London - at noon on Saturday May 31; and it is being preceeded by a mammoth exhibition of Clarice's eye-catching and highly sought after art deco collections...
Read Bev Holder's full story about the Clarice Cliff recording in the Halesowen News

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Jay Akasie at the New York Sun notes that there will be a forgotten painting bu Frans Hals up for auction at the upcoming Sotheby's Old Masters auction.

From the article:

The Sotheby's London sale of Old Masters includes a recently rediscovered portrait by 17th-century Dutch master Frans Hals. The portrait — of a wealthy textile merchant, Willem van Heythuysen — had been in the Rothschild collection for centuries and is estimated to sell for between $6 million and $10 million....

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A new and not very subtle weapon is helping art collectors in the battle against forgers: the Bomb.

Russian scientists believe that nuclear test explosions and the bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 released elements into the atmosphere that can be detected in oil paintings made after...

Read Ben Hoyle's article in The Telegraph

More works by Bacon and Freud to go up for auction after record prices for Benefits Supervisor Sleeping and Triptych.

London - A week after paintings by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon shattered auction records in New York, Christie's announced that it will sell works by the pair in London next month.

Read Ben Hoyles' full story in the Times Online

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In Canada, the government is being called upon to regulate auction house guarantees and require full disclosure from the houses about conflicts-of-interest, and bid shilling.

Sotheby's is first Canadian house to offer guaranteed prices. 'It's like cowboy country ... something has to be done federally'

One of the most controversial hallmarks of the supercharged international art auction world officially arrives in Canada next Monday. It's the guarantee, or perhaps that should be The Guarantee: the secret minimum payment that an auction house agrees to pay the consignor of a particular art work regardless of how that Jackson Pollock (or Tom Thomson) performs at auction.

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"A body of law is something that's needed in Canada because if, for instance, there's a financial interest owned by an auction firm, there should be disclosure. Otherwise, the public is not getting the full picture of what's going on."

Read the indepth story by James Adams in The Globe and Mail