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April 19 (Bloomberg) — Nick Walker, an old spray-mate of fellow British street artist Banksy, sold 750,000 pounds ($1.5 million) of paintings and prints this week at the start of his first one-man show in the U.K., the gallery said yesterday. All but two of 60 original Walker works on offer, many featuring his anarchical … Read more
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more
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’ … Read more