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ISSUE 2446 | Antiquestradegazette.Com | 13 June 2020 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 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 ISSUE 2446 | antiquestradegazette.com | 13 June 2020 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 koopman rare art antiques trade KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art Safety first as dealers resume indoor trading complying with new regulations by Frances Allitt & in the hope that its indoor and Laura Chesters outdoor Detling Antiques, Vintage & Collectors Fair will next run on Dealers, fair organisers and July 18-19. antiques centre managers are Organiser Helen Yourston preparing to return to said: “Our preparations business with a mixture of include risk assessment and a enthusiasm and caution. new indoor floorplan. For Traders rushed to sign up for dealers we’ll have social the three-day Petersfield Antiques distancing between each stand Fair when organiser Caroline and there will be a Penman sent out proposals last comprehensive one-way system week. Half of the 26 available in and out of the buildings.” stands were snapped up the Exhibitors will be expected same day. to wear masks at least while “There is clearly an appetite unloading and visitors will to get back to fairs,” says have to ask before handling Penman (see Letters, page 43), objects and sanitise their “but the cost for dealers has to hands, with or without gloves, be kept to the barest minimum before picking anything up. – it is a gamble.” Yourston adds that any hope She has prepared an of getting back to business is extensive system for visitor contingent on hotels opening in safety during the three-day time to host travelling dealers. indoor event scheduled for Like auction houses, Fleshing out auction demand September 4-6 including one- galleries, shops and indoor way paths, receiving visitors by markets have permission to A black chalk drawing of a skeleton drew an extraordinary competition at German auction invitation only and having reopen from June 15 in England house Lempertz on May 30. Estimated at €3000-3500, it attracted at least 15 bidders earlier arrivals book if the Government’s five tests and was eventually knocked down at €420,000 (£381,820) to a French dealer. appointments. Visitors will be are met and they follow the new Pick It was catalogued as ‘attributed to’ Agnolo di Cosimo (1503-1572), the able to handle items only after ‘Covid-19 secure’ guidelines. Florentine mannerist known as Bronzino. Another candidate for authorship sanitising their hands and Devolved nations of the UK of the was Bronzino’s pupil Allesandro Allori (1535-1607) who, after the early death jewellery will be cleaned after other than England will be week of his father, was effectively adopted by Bronzino and often referred to him being tried on. easing their lockdowns at a affectionately as his uncle. See page 6 B2B Events has similarly been working towards Continued on page 4 50,000 Auction catalogues Scanned or hard copy thecatalogstar.com Tel: 01225 829 090 PROOF OF PROVENANCE. INCREASE VALUE Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2446 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 Plenty of scope Chief Production Editor Tom Derbyshire Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Auction dedicated to Reporter Frances Allitt scientific instruments Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall and photographica Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor page 10-11 SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 [email protected] EDITORIAL In The News page 4 +44 (0)20 3725 5520 [email protected] Roman bronze foot stands up well at £75,000 ADVERTISING +44 (0)20 3725 5604 Bidders return to the Bonhams saleroom [email protected] AUCTION ADVERTISING Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 News Digest page 6-7 [email protected] NON-AUCTION ADVERTISING Includes Bid Barometer Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 [email protected] CLASSIFIED Auction Reports Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS [email protected] INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING Microscopes in detailed focus page 10-12 Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 Sister edge [email protected] ART MARKET Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 Suffolk artist shines in Norfolk sale page 14-15 Two lots that underline the [email protected] talents of the Zinkeisens CALENDAR CONTROLLER BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER & FAIRS AND MARKETS ADVERTISING page 15 Rachel Tolley +44 (0)20 3725 5606 The Avengers make their debuts page 18-19 [email protected] ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 Previews page 20-21 Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES Dealers’ Diary This product is produced from The challenge to reopen safely page 24-27 sustainably managed forests and controlled sources. 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People, of course, health and safety know that there is no substitute is safe to return. want to come back and make measures. for a visit in person. Portobello Group, owner of money, but they have a lot of “All our staff will be a number of arcades along the concerns.” attending a full induction and I street, is planning to begin Issues such as how customers have introduced strict social trading on June 20 and is can handle objects, how they distancing, incorporating clear encouraging dealers to commit can be cleaned if handled and one-way systems throughout to returning. how the numbers of visitors the buildings along with desk Portobello Group’s Ryan will be limited are all being screens and extra hygiene Todd said: “We are hoping for looked at in Portobello Road is hotly anticipated. “We have everyone with disposable procedures.” solidarity among dealers for and beyond. to be positive,” says dealer income will be like a dog let off Volunteer social-distancing the reopening and have been as Jim Gallie, manager of Garry Edwards who trades in a lead.” wardens will also be on duty. accommodating as we can.” Battlesbridge Antiques Centre antiquities at York Antiques For the dealers, he says, it’s Traders needing more The group will mark aisles in Essex, is also preparing to Centre and other northern about getting “back to basics. information on the government with 2m lines, provide sanitiser reopen its doors on the June 15. centres. “In the second week of Every centre is working out a stipulated risk assessments and stations, cleaning post- and He predicts that the majority of March everything ground to a way to do it and we’re moving for guidance on how to be pre-opening and offer visors or dealers will be returning, halt. People have spent the best forward.” ‘Covid-secure’ should use the masks and gloves for traders although some are still self- part of three months away from Visitors will also be able to information on the Health and who do not have their own. isolating to protect their own or pubs, restaurants and shops so return to view the stock of Safety Executive website at However, there are still others’ health. when the high streets reopen more than 350 dealers at the hse.gov.uk. concerns about how many For those in a position to and we have some normality Hemswell Antique Centres For more on dealers and fairs dealers will return this month. return to work, the reopening back it’s fair to say that near Gainsborough in reopening see pages 24-25.
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