UK government bans export of £10m Botticelli painting
The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years
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The Art Newspaper
MAY 12, 2025
The work was previously held in a private collection for 120 years
Art Peritus
JUNE 24, 2025
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WorthPoint
JULY 1, 2025
The collection, which included issues #40, 41, 44–49, and 51–57, came from a golden era of Marvel storytelling that introduced legendary characters like the Silver Surfer, the Inhumans, and the Black Panther.
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A rare and arresting painting of the Battle of Bunker Hill by Howard Pyle made a quiet but powerful impression at Freeman’s Hindman’s recent American art auction. If you’re in the area, Placer’s auctions are well worth the visit: fun, accessible, and clearly plugged into the collecting zeitgeist. at Lion and Unicorn.
Penrose Appraisals
JUNE 23, 2025
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WorthPoint
MAY 12, 2025
Fine European Art An early 17th-century painting of Saint Peter sold for $62,495.97 Dawsons , a distinguished British auction house, recently offered a selection of fine early European art, with the standout piece being a powerful early 17th-century painting of Saint Peter , attributed to the school of Jusepe de Ribera.
WorthPoint
JULY 21, 2025
A collection of twelve Tommy Saint-Louis crystal stemware glasses , arranged as an assembled set, sold for $1,062.50. A Standout Pair Antikeo sold a pair of Architectural Capriccio with Ancient Classical Ruins paintings by Jacob Fabris (1689–1761) for a combined $27,135. Will Seippel is the founder, president, and CEO of WorthPoint.
WorthPoint
JULY 18, 2025
This piece combined silkscreen ink and thick acrylic paint on a chrome board, reflecting Rodrigue’s experimental period between 2008 and 2013. Neal’s remains a top destination for collectors of George Rodrigue, the celebrated Louisiana artist behind the iconic Blue Dog series.
WorthPoint
JULY 2, 2025
CT Bids set a record for an original oil painting by Roy Gonzalez Tabora, an artist known for his luminous tropical paradise scenes. It’s worth noting that this market interest applies to original paintings, not prints, which are more commonly found. An Original Oil In the Bold and Beautiful Night sold for $3,737.61
WorthPoint
JUNE 12, 2025
Painted in Monza Red and showing just over 58,000 miles, this car was one of only sixty-six made that year with this configuration, making it an incredibly rare find. It was painted around 1950–1955 and is catalogued in the Edouard Cortes Virtual Catalogue Raisonné. The sale also included X-Men #4, graded at 4.5,
International Society of Appraisers
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
This maximalist style reminds us of the Victorian period, which favored the display of collectibles. Items such as folk art, unique and creative paintings, hand-blown Venetian glass, delft style ceramic tiles, handmade vases, and quilts are splashed throughout interiors.
WorthPoint
JULY 17, 2025
Hand-coiled and painted in a black-on-white design, the mug measured 3.75″ x 5.25″ x 4″ and dated back centuries—far predating similar handled ceramic vessels in Europe, which didn’t become common until the late 1800s. While not a headline-grabbing number, the piece stood out due to its age and intact condition.
WorthPoint
JULY 3, 2025
These sculptural pieces featured amorphic, seamless brass bases topped with thick 0.75″ reverse-painted black glass, giving off that unmistakable Springer blend of glamour and bold design. Despite minor condition issues like paint loss on the glass and tarnish on the brass, the trio sold for a relatively modest $22,680.
Art Peritus
MARCH 31, 2025
Photo courtesy of Architectural Digest Protecting Your Art Collection from Extreme Weather Events Art collections, whether personal or institutional, represent cultural, historical, and financial investments that require careful protection. Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama moments before being swept into the sea.
WorthPoint
MAY 12, 2025
A color code or artist signaturelikely because the piece was hand-painted with a floral motif, which sometimes skipped those extra flourishes. While the listing skipped over the mileage, the odometer read just 3,034barely broken in for a car thats nearly old enough to collect Social Security. What wasn’t present?
International Society of Appraisers
MARCH 14, 2025
A collection of unbranded jewelry that has no celebrity provenance may sell at a local or regional auction house. Replacement cost comparable is generally used for antiques, collectibles, fine art, period jewelry, among other types of property. For instance, Elizabeth Taylor’s jewelry (i.e., Then you would determine scrap value.
WorthPoint
JUNE 23, 2025
Paintings Steal the Spotlight This Karl Hofer painting sold for $5,666.36 A surprising painting turned up again at CTBids —one that made me do a double-take and then a triple-check. It was a landscape entitled Swiss Lakes by none other than German expressionist Karl Hofer, painted in 1935 on hardboard. at CTBids.
WorthPoint
JUNE 12, 2025
Painted in a rich red and measuring 33.5″ A Painting with Power This Russian oil painting attributed to Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin sold for $20,480 at Helios Auctions. The post Insights on Auction Sales: A Tobacco Can, a Russian Painting appeared first on WorthPoint. Thomas, Ontario, in 1885.
WorthPoint
JUNE 27, 2025
This vibrant turquoise blue bottle with gold paint and white enamel details sold for $300 in March 2025. I can’t remember a time when something in the antiques and collectibles world disappointed me more than that news. Made of ruby red cut glass, its hand-painted design features flowers, diamond shapes, and scrolls.
WorthPoint
JULY 15, 2025
The oil painting—measuring 42″ x 36.25″ unframed—depicts the New York City Athletic Club cloaked in snow, capturing a quiet, nostalgic vision of the city. This painting would instantly elevate any room it’s placed in. At $8,502, it offered a relatively accessible price point for such an atmospheric and sizable canvas.
WorthPoint
JULY 3, 2025
Often hand-carved and delicately painted, early 20th-century lures have become highly sought-after collectibles, with rare examples going for prices that nobody at the time could have ever imagined. The lure, featuring clear solid-glass eyes and an intricate paint design, was initially estimated to go for $10,000 to $20,000.
WorthPoint
JULY 18, 2025
He worked in two and three dimensions, with sculptures, paintings, and prints all part of his work. In 1993, the French government set up the Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti in Paris , which now holds the bulk of Giacometti’s work, including 260 bronze sculptures and 95 paintings. She holds a B.A. WorthPoint—Discover.
WorthPoint
JUNE 27, 2025
Auction house Beaussant Lefèvre and Associates recently sold a collection of rare gold coins for $3.48 The sale comes after the coins were found behind a painting in the store room of a French home. During his lifetime, he built a collection containing more than 1,000 coins. million, according to CNN. WorthPoint—Discover.
The Art Newspaper
JULY 22, 2025
Photo: Courtesy Civic Museum of Belluno A Renaissance painting stolen more than half a century ago has been returned to Italy after a British woman agreed to relinquish ownership following a lengthy mediation process. With UK police reluctant to seize the painting, Marinello says, he pursued a civil resolution. “It
WorthPoint
JULY 3, 2025
WorthPoint’s Industry Partners are offering collectors some interesting and sought-after pieces in July, including sentimental shell art, a vision in stone, a prized beer tray, a surreal landscape painting, and a salesman’s sample for an iconic track tractor. ELDRED’S AUCTION GALLERY Eldred’s Auction Gallery, estimate: $400-$799.
Antique Collecting
JULY 4, 2025
Leading galleries and dealers from the world of antiques and the decorative arts, including significant new signings, are confirmed for The post Top dealers heading to LAPADA Fair appeared first on Antique Collecting.
WorthPoint
JUNE 16, 2025
17th-century painting by Dutch artist Frans Post. Image Source: Sotheby’s via Robb Report Last month, auction house Sotheby’s sold a painting from 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Post for $7.37 The sale comes after the painting, View of Olinda, Brazil, with Ruins of the Jesuit Church , was recovered from a barn attic.
The Art Newspaper
JULY 4, 2025
Kachkine is an avid collector and a self-taught restorer of paintings who combined their two seemingly disparate interests to create a disruptive new approach to art restoration in the form of digital masks. “I I enjoy the concept of rescuing paintings that have been neglected and abused over the years,” Kachkine says.
WorthPoint
JUNE 16, 2025
This time away from the house naturally breeds new decoration notions, whether moving a few paintings around or skipping the throw rugs this summer. Antique wooden printer trays are great ways to display a shell collection. Amy Moyer is the proprietor of Antmuffin: Art, Antiques & Collectibles. She holds a B.A.
Antique Collecting
JULY 14, 2025
The LAPADA Berkeley Square Fair has confirmed a diverse range of world-class dealers and galleries set to take part in The post LAPADA showcases world-class dealers appeared first on Antique Collecting.
Invaluable
JUNE 25, 2025
Touch and technique are inextricably intertwined in textile and the mixed media works, encaustic painting and ceramic forms gaining in popularity. A historic technique of painting that involves applying pigment to heated wax, encaustic results in works with durable, luminous colour that draws viewers to the surface of each work.
The Art Newspaper
JULY 3, 2025
This thoughtless decision by the government has left us potentially not being able to complete vital aspects of the project, and is putting at risk a nationally important building, and the incredible collection inside.” The church also contains 39 ornately carved wooden misericords, or “mercy seats”, from the 13th to 16th centuries.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 6, 2025
The foundation’s collection—drawn from the acquisitions of the Swiss father and son collectors Karl and Jürg Im Obersteg—is on permanent loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel. It was, however, discovered a year later in a crate by French soldiers who are said to have damaged it, with the painting struck by a bullet and pierced by a bayonet.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 20, 2025
van Gogh very rarely sold or gave away works from his collection, so the exchange for butter and meat was quite exceptional. Head of a Peasant Woman, right profile has since passed to another private collection. The sitter remains unidentified, although she might well be Gordina de Groot. By the 1930s V.W.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 19, 2025
“We are pretty lean on what we bring, and specific,” says Wendy Olsoff, a co-founder of New York’s PPOW gallery, who adds that, to save money, she skipped installing a special floor for her stand and did not paint the walls. Are prices at the right level? Some are clearly following in their parents’ footsteps. “We Basel is Basel.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 20, 2025
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.
The Art Newspaper
JULY 2, 2025
Visitors to Tarkib, a contemporary art platform that was launched ten years ago © Image courtesy of Tarkib Artists are also chafing at the conservativism of the art scene, which remains dominated by painting. They were so happy and full of ideas.” Most important is the funding situation.
The Art Newspaper
JULY 9, 2025
Since 1985, 43 artists have visited 95 countries and produced 300 paintings for the personal collection of the King—but it hasn't always been smooth sailing
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 11, 2025
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Invaluable
JULY 23, 2025
Bold use of concrete and huge glistening windows loom over Wilshire Boulevard, supporting an exhibition floor 30 feet above street level, which will house LACMA’s permanent collection when it officially opens. Bold and distinctive on the outside, the building is unlike anything you might expect in a major museum on the inside.
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 18, 2025
Among the top sales she has made at the fair are a painting by Katharina Grosse—whose luminous spray-painted Messeplatz commission is visible from the stand—for €300,000 to a Paris collector. A vivid new painting by one of the few younger artists on the stand, Lauren Quin, sold for $55,000 by the end of day two.
Antique Collecting
JUNE 6, 2025
The Collection and Archive of Sir Basil Gould achieved some impressive results in the recent sale at Bonhams in London, The post Dalai Lama portrait highlight of Sir Basil Gould collection appeared first on Antique Collecting.
Antique Collecting
JULY 18, 2025
The painting, thought to be the The post Mahatma Gandhi portrait sells for thousands appeared first on Antique Collecting. Portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Leighton (British, 1898-1989), sold for £152,800 at Bonhams.
The Art Newspaper
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
The painting, which has just gone on display at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, was previously hidden away in a private collection for over a century
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