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The Wemyss Ware Buyer’s Guide: 5 Classic Pieces You Need in Your Collection

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In 2004, a world auction record was set for Weymss Ware, when a Scottish collector bid almost £70,000 (around $86,715) at a Sotheby’s auction for two sleeping piglets produced by the original Fife pottery. Far topping that this year, however, was a Weymss Ware painted tabby cat – it reached a selling price in January of £18,000.

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Missing Tom Thomson painting at centre of $8m lawsuit returned to owner

The Art Newspaper

Murray says he hired private investigators to find Ranger, who insisted the painting was at the auction house. In 2022, Murray filed an C$11m ($8m) lawsuit against Waddington’s. The auction house, he says, insisted that the painting was never in its possession and simultaneously that it was not an original Thomson.

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A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to Paris

The Art Newspaper

Richter’s auction record stands at £30.4m, the price paid for the large-scale abstract painting Abstraktes Bild (1986) which sold at Sotheby’s London in 2015.