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Oxford
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St Agnes sparks a bidding battle
05 August 2024Overseas buyer emerges victorious as Old Master generates fierce competition in an Oxford sale
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‘A testament to elegance’: Bach manuscript goes to Bodleian in lieu of inheritance tax
15 March 2024A rare autograph manuscript by composer Johann Sebastian Bach has been acquired by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries.
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Pick of the week: Collection from book dealer John Percival Love woos buyers
19 February 2024Rediscovered books and manuscripts that once belonged to former antiquarian book dealer John Percival Love and had been stored away in a bank vault for nearly 50 years captivated collectors and the trade alike at auction.
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The name’s Bond: Jane Bond
06 November 2023Jane Bond (b.1939), a costume designer for stage, television and films, started painting portraits especially from the early 1980s onward.
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Fedden and Wain show feline fancy
07 August 2023A couple of cat pictures made bidders’ whiskers twitch of late.
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Australian demand lifts Edmund Edgar miniature to five times estimate in Oxford auction
27 July 2023Edmund Edgar (c.1804-54) worked as a house painter, engraver and lithographer in London. And life may have stayed that way had he not been apprehended by a constable in Lisson Grove, Marylebone on the morning of September 12, 1825, in possession of a bag of silver, watches, jewellery and fine linen.
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Take a peek before ‘glass and brass’ microscopes appear
10 July 2023A lucernal microscope is a rare survivor.
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The oarsman who outraged Henley and a rower later mountaineer
10 July 2023A group of Victorian rowing memorabilia generated plenty of bidding at Claydon Auctioneers (19.5% buyer’s premium) in Buckinghamshire on June 25-26.
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Holman-Hunt’s RSA medal purchased by the Ashmolean
19 June 2023A medal awarded to Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood artist William Holman-Hunt (1827- 1910) has been purchased by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford from dealer Tregeagle Fine Art.
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Works offered from key figure in the Christie’s story
19 June 2023More than 70 lots of paintings, works on paper and antiques assembled by the well-known auctioneer and collector Paul Whitfield (1942- 2018) went under the hammer at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford on May 17.
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The remarkable Mrs Newman
05 June 2023The professional goldsmith and jewellery designer was not the first woman in such a role but received significant prominence in the Victorian era under her own name
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Latest Jennifer Lee top price at auction pushes studio potter close to Rie and Coper levels
29 May 2023Mallams regained the record for a pot by Jennifer Lee (b.1956) on May 18 when a large asymmetrical vessel from c.1990 sold at £40,000 (plus 25% buyer’s premium).
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Ben Nicholson's sense of purity helps generate demand
22 May 2023This untitled work from c.1945 by Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) comprises a mahogany relief applied with oil paint. It was offered at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) of Oxford on May 17-18 as part of its Modern Art & Design sale.
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Tesson’s delicacies in line with bidders’ taste
24 April 2023French artist Louis Tesson (1820-70) is best known for his genre paintings in the Middle East and north Africa.
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PBFA has lots to shout about ahead of Oxford event
03 April 2023Tom Lintern-Mole, co-organiser with John Martin of PBFA’s book fair at Oxford Brookes University on Saturday and Sunday, April 22-23, said he is looking forward to 75 dealers standing.
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Elegant sitter ‘from the Fairfaxes’ catches the attention
27 March 2023A flurry of bids emerged at Mallams (25% buyer’s premium) in Oxford for a particularly fine 17th century portrait of a young woman.
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Beautiful Kelmscott work... shame about the library stamp
06 March 2023Featured in an Oxford sale was a copy of the 1893, Kelmscott Press edition of The History of Godefrey of Boloyne and of the Conquest of Jerusalem.
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Rare banknote was worth a bit more than fifty quid
06 March 2023Early example note from Sir Christopher Wren issue takes group lot to high four figure price
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Second chance to own a pioneering Summers plywood armchair
16 January 2023Bidders who missed out on a version of Gerald Summers’ 1933-34 plywood armchair sold for £20,000 as part of a collection of Simple Furniture at Lyon & Turnbull last October did not have too long to wait for another to appear for sale.
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Nude reveals the Cubist talents of Cissie Kean
09 January 2023Cissie Kean (1871-1961) dedicated her life to painting after sustaining a severe injury during a riding accident as a young adult.