An auction featuring of 15 artist-designed gavels is taking place week in order to raise funds for three charities. The Gavel Auction involves 15 UK and EU auction houses and is aiming to raise ...

Two thieves broke into an antiques centre in South Yorkshire stealing items and causing thousands of pounds of damage. Barnsley Antiques Centre suffered the break in during the early hours of October ...

Pictures amassed over recent decades for a Norfolk country house open the Old… ...

A recently rediscovered early work by Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) has sold for €400,000 (£349,000) at Dorotheum. The modest bust-length portrait of the young Don José Álvarez de Toledo Osorio y ...

Capping a strong year for the Indian art market, Christie’s has set a new record for any classical Indian or Islamic painting at auction.

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A group of woodblocks from artists Eric Ravilious and Tirzah Garwood that had been missing for 72 years have been recovered and purchased by two museums. Following the emergence of a group for sale ...

An exceptional example of the Volvo estate – the archetypal antiques dealer’s car – comes for sale at Sworders this month. The 1989 240 GLT, a high-spec model from the final years of production of the ...

The J Paul Getty Museum has purchased a Hellenistic gold box-bezel ring, describing it as “one of the finest and best-preserved surviving examples of this ancient jewellery type”. The c.3rd-2nd ...

The second part of the Michael Baggott collection was a white-glove affair at Woolley & Wallis. All of the 120 lots offered in Salisbury on October 22 were sold, adding a further £80,000 to the £1… ...

An oak and polychrome carving of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's coat of arms has been rediscovered following research by St James’ art dealer Simon Dickinson. The firm believes it is the “only contemporary ...

A good sum for a painting by Richard Eurich (1903-92) at an auction outside London came at Mallams’ latest Art & Music sale in Oxford. Consigned from a local deceased estate, the 19.5 x 2ft 6in (50 x ...