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To print, your print settings should be ‘fit to page size’ or ‘fit to printable area’ or similar. Problems? See our guide: https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2493 | antiquestradegazette.com | 22 May 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50 D V years A koopman I R N T antiques trade G T H E rare art KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY www.koopman.art Big hitters return to major sales by Alex Capon The latest flagship sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York showed a return to some normality after a difficult 14 months. The sighs of relief at the auction houses were almost palpable after the supply of major works had dropped off considerably during the pandemic but recovered signifi- cantly here, with some big-ticket items coming forward for last week’s series. Continued on page 4 Auction heads become dealers Pick Newton’s homage to Dorset Two long-standing auction department of the heads launch second careers as dealers this week month. tops Gloucestershire house sale David Houlston (oak furniture and works of art) and Paul Raison (Old Masters) Duke’s sale of property from Wormington Grange near paints manufacturer Winsor & Newton, enjoyed only a both recently left senior positions at Broadway in Gloucestershire held in Dorchester from modest career and went largely unrecognised during his Bonhams and Christie’s respectively. May 12-14 included a record for the Modern British lifetime. At a low ebb in the wake of the First World War Houlston began working as a general painter Algernon Newton (1880-1968). he had once been reduced to selling his works on street valuer at Phillips Chester in the 1990s and spent 15 years heading Phillips’ and then The artist’s monumental 6ft 8in x 8ft 10in (1.74 x corners, and did not merit an entry in The Macmillan Bonhams’ vernacular furniture sales. 2.72m) A Dorset Landscape was on the market for the Encyclopedia of Art after his death. He had recently moved to a consultancy first time since it was bought in June 1928 at the Royal The small loan exhibition The Peculiarity of Algernon Newton (1880-1968) held by Katz in 2012 helped put back role – his final sale with Bonhams was the Academy. Estimated at £60,000-100,000, it sold at John Douglas metalwork collection (see last on the map a painter whose moody urban views are today £225,000 to London dealer Daniel Katz, one of several week’s ATG, No 2492). much admired for their unsettling sense of menace or phone bidders, against private and institutional interest. Based in the Cotswolds, near Newton, the grandson of one of the founders of art foreboding. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 4 Old Masters at shipping art and antiques • Bespoke secure packing • Door-to-door worldwide delivery • Loss and damage warranty available • Customs and shipping documentation support e: [email protected] w: packsend.co.uk/art-shipping Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2493 trading as Auction Technology Group Ltd Read top stories every day on our website antiquestradegazette.com auctiontechnologygroup.com Find us on: Follow us on Twitter Chief Executive Officer John-Paul Savant Chief Operating Officer Richard Lewis @ATG_Editorial Find us on: Publishing Director Matt Ball Editor-at-Large Noelle McElhatton Deputy Editor, News Laura Chesters Deputy Editor, Features & Supplements Roland Arkell Commissioning Editor Anne Crane Chief Production Editor Tom Derbyshire Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Reporter Frances Allitt Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES In The News page 4 Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 Keverne sale Part 1: a £4.8m white-glove result [email protected] EDITORIAL +44 (0)20 3725 5520 [email protected] News Digest page 6-7 ADVERTISING Includes Bid Barometer +44 (0)20 3725 5604 [email protected] AUCTION ADVERTISING Auction Reports Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 Creature comfort [email protected] HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS NON-AUCTION & FAIRS AND MARKETS British art pottery bonanza page 10-13 & 15 Designers championed by ADVERTISING Richard Dennis feature in Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 ART MARKET [email protected] British art pottery selection CLASSIFIED The Sir Roy Strong collection page 16-18 at rebranded saleroom Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 [email protected] BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER page 10-11 INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING Last days of witch hunts and trials page 20-21 Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 [email protected] Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 Previews page 24-25 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Rachel Fellman +44 (0)20 3725 5606 Dealers’ Diary [email protected] African headgear top picks page 28-30 ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 International Events page 33-39 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES This product is produced from sustainably managed UK Auction Calendar page 42-48 forests and controlled sources. 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Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 22 May 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2493.indd 1 14/05/2021 13:38:05 WWAd05-144 ATG 244x335mm.qxp_Layout 1 11/05/2021 13:24 Page 1 THE HORATIO’S GARDEN CHARITY ‘SUMMER ART AUCTION’ TIMED ONLINE ONLY 15TH – 30TH MAY 2021 (NO BUYER’S PREMIUM | NO BIDDING FEES ON THE SALEROOM) Keith Jansz (Contemporary) Sean Henry (b.1965) William Wilkins (b.1938) The Blue and White Vase (detail) Untitled (Man on a stool) Autumn Sunlight (detail) Tim Burton (b.1958) Dawn Beckles (b.1981) Nic FiddianGreen (b.1963) Edward Scissorhands What Are (detail) New Horse at Water ENQUIRIES www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk Clare Durham | +44 (0)1722 424507 [email protected] www.horatiosgarden.org.uk PAGE 003 2493.indd 2 13/05/2021 13:19:09 News Encouraging signs at the big New York sales Continued from front page While demand may not have been ‘white hot’, the totals were a marked improvement on the most recent comparable events. Last July, the live-streamed ‘cross-continental’ auctions at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phil- lips (effectively two or three series merged together) raised Above: the flagship auctions at Sotheby’s New York hosted a $934m (£741.64m) including Le Bassin aux nymphéas by Claude Monet – small number of socially distanced bidders in the room. The premium. $61m (£43.6m) at Sotheby’s New York. auction house reported its livestream attracted 1.7 million The current series in New views around the world. York is set to end about 50% up on this figure, generating a total London in February 2013 for with 49 of the 50 lots finding Asia, made the fourth-highest the Marion collection of Con- of $1.37bn (£978.6m) with four- £25.5m. Here, Femme assise près buyers (98%), while its 21st price for the artist and sold well temporary art added a further day sales still to take place at d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) was Century evening sale made above the $15m (£8.37m) it had $157.2m (£112.3m) to the the time of going to press and offered with an ‘estimate on $210.5m (£150.3m), selling 37 fetched in the same rooms in bottom line. Phillips holding back its auc- request’, reportedly in the of 39 lots (95%). May 2004. Overall the sale Meanwhile, Bonhams held a tions until June. region of $55m. generated $221.3m (£158.1m) 32-lot Impressionist and Christie’s two evening sales After a 20-minute bidding Title maintained with 31 of the 33 lots (94%) Modern Art sale in New York were branded 20th Century battle which came down to two Unlike Christie’s, Sotheby’s selling on the night. on May 13 which made a total Art and 21st Century Art for phone bidders, it was sold at maintained the Impressionist While Sotheby’s had a scat- of $13.8m (£9.88m). It was led the first time, although curi- $90m (£64.3m) – the fifth- & Modern and Contemporary tering of socially distanced by a 1937 Picasso portrait of ously its day sales were left highest price for a Picasso but art nomenclature for its even- clients in the room for its sales, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Femme unchanged and still billed the highest price for any work ing auctions. auctioneer Oliver Barker au Béret Mauve, that made Impressionist & Modern and sold at auction since Claude Monet featured prominently conducted the firm’s Contem- $9.15m (£6.54m). Contemporary Art. Monet’s Meules made $97m again here with the evening sale porary art evening sale and Although it sold below its The top lot of the week was (£75.2m) at Sotheby’s New in the Imps & Mods category stand-alone sale of the Mrs $10m-15m estimate, it was the offered at Christie’s 20th Cen- York in May 2019, well before on May 12 led by one of the art- John L Marion collection via second-highest price for a pic- tury Art sale on May 13: a 1932 the pandemic.