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ISSUE 2500 | Antiquestradegazette.Com | 10 July 2021 | 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 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2500 | antiquestradegazette.com | 10 July 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY London sales are ‘best since pandemic’ by Alex Capon The latest round of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s represented the highest overall total for a ‘London’ auction series since before the coronavirus pandemic. Like-for-like comparisons have become difficult due to the merging of categories – Sotheby’s included works normally appearing in Modern British sales, while Christie’s figures were bolstered by combining auctions run out of Paris as well as London. Pick However, the £336.5m total generated from last week’s flagship sales (with one Philadelphia to Scotland of the sale still to run at the time of going to press) was over double the combined week June and July sales in equivalent - and back again at $3.7m categories last year. Charles Carroll’s printed copy of the Declaration of Lyon & Turnbull rare books specialist Cathy Marsden said Fifty in the room Independence – discovered earlier this year in a Scottish it had been “a wonderful surprise to find a fascinating and Sotheby’s British Art evening sale on family home – sold at auction in Philadelphia on July 1 for important piece of American history hidden in an ancestral June 29 offered a mixture of modern and $3.7m (£2.85m) plus premium. family home. contemporary works. With 50 clients Carroll, the last surviving signer of the original 1776 “I was shown a pile of papers that had been brought down allowed in the room, it was led by Lucian document, received two copies of the Stone facsimile in from the attic – mainly newspapers covering world events Freud’s Portrait of David Hockney that sold 1824 that later passed to the Scottish-Canadian diplomat and the like but also a folded vellum document. for £12.8m against an £8m-12m estimate. and businessman John MacTavish (1787-1852). Continued on page 8 Continued on page 4 This week marks a numerical In just over two months from now we comes out as our front page date. milestone as Antiques Trade Gazette will also reach our 50th anniversary. Issue 2509 will conveniently carry the th publishes its 2500th edition. The first edition of ATG had a cover cover date of September 18 2021 – 50 2500 Inside we look back some of the earlier date of September 18 1971, following years to the day after issue number landmark issues from the first to the our now time-honoured tradition of one. editon 2000th. using the Saturday after an edition See more on page 12-13. genuine antiques from trusted dealers Simply point your phone camera to view website PAGE 001,004 2500.indd 1 02/07/2021 17:40:06 Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2500 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 In The News page 4 Deputy Editor, Features & Supplements Roland Arkell London’s flagship sales post higher totals Commissioning Editor Anne Crane Chief Production Editor Tom Derbyshire Knowles to trade from Tunbridge Wells Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Reporter Frances Allitt News Digest page 8-9 Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall Includes Bid Barometer Niello on target Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor Breakthrough prices for Iraqi SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES presentation silver Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 Feature - 2500 editions of ATG [email protected] page 16 EDITORIAL A look back at landmark issues page 12-13 +44 (0)20 3725 5520 [email protected] Auction Reports ADVERTISING +44 (0)20 3725 5604 HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS [email protected] EA Taylor terrace house discovery page 14-16 Restoration AUCTION ADVERTISING Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 ART MARKET dramas [email protected] NON-AUCTION & FAIRS AND MARKETS Eastern Europeans in the UK regions page 18-20 Unsung heroes ADVERTISING of the trade Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER page 34-39 [email protected] An eclectic selection in Cambridge page 22-24 CLASSIFIED Alison Hoar +44 (0)20 3725 5608 [email protected] Previews page 26-27 INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 [email protected] Dealers’ Diary Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 Special report from the Petworth Fair page 28-32 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Rachel Fellman +44 (0)20 3725 5606 Feature - Restoration [email protected] ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 Meet the restorers and conservators working Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 hard behind the scenes page 34-39 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES This product is produced from International Events page 40-44 sustainably managed forests and controlled sources. 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Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 10 July 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2500.indd 1 02/07/2021 17:04:24 PAGE 003 2500.indd 2 01/07/2021 15:19:35 News Knowles turns dealer at new Kent emporium Decorative arts specialist Eric retail outlet for chandelier Knowles has become a dealer manufacturer and glass new challenge and I have now and teamed up with others in restorer Wilkinson and dealers gone from auctions to retail. the trade to launch a new John and Chrissie Masters of “I have to keep learning: I emporium in Kent. The Design Gallery of love to learn and to share and Opening this month as The Westerham. opening this emporium means Pantiles Arcade in The Corn Other dealers will join the we can meet some of the people Exchange, Tunbridge Wells, space in due course and we have been trading with the venture will sell decorative Knowles is also in talks with online as well as meet new arts as well as furniture, art potters and other designers collectors.” contemporary art, antique who may take space in the He said the space will silver, numismatics and future. feature items from “the classic Tunbridge ware. Following a number of to the contemporary” as well as Knowles had begun working proposals of locations in the hosting events such as valuation with Robert Woodmansey and Kent spa town prior to the days. his partner Germaine Knowles coronavirus pandemic, The first event took place on (no relation) on the website Knowles and Woodmansey July 4 – a charity valuation day ScottishAntiques.com and via discovered the availability of in aid of The Pickering Cancer Eric Knowles’ company The the Corn Exchange last year Drop-in Centre. Knowles was Hoard. and were able to agree a deal joined by Charles Hanson of Now the Grade II listed with landlord The Marquis of Hansons Auctioneers, picture Corn Exchange will become a Abergavenny. Above: Eric Knowles in front of The Corn Exchange in Tunbridge specialist Grant Ford, jewellery physical outlet for The Hoard Knowles, chairman of The Wells and (top) the inside of building before work began to expert John Benjamin and and ScottishAntiques.com. Hoard, said: “I was at Bonhams create a selling space for The Pantiles Arcade. valuer Loraine Turner. The arcade will also be a for 30-odd years but I enjoy a Photo by www.davidbartholomewphotography Laura Chesters Left: Oliver Barker, chairman of Sotheby’s Europe taking bids for Lucian Freud’s diminutive portrait of David Hockney that sold for £12.8m. Christie’s said it was its best London Right: Going to the Match by LS “ Lowry took £2.4m at Sotheby’s sale. summer season since 2017 Continued from front page Dating from 2002, the The painting was pursued by this subject. In the same family knocked down at £18.3m. It was The following night, picture of the 65-year-old five bidders giving instructions collection since 1972, it was last sold at auction in 1964 Christie’s held its 20th-21st Hockney was painted when to Sotheby’s staff based in New knocked down at £2.4m – the where it fetched £10,000 as one Century sale in London which Freud himself was 80. Hockney York, London and Hong Kong. seventh highest price for Lowry of 50 Kandinskys from Solomon raised £119.2m. In all, 46 of the recalled: “It was a very The winning bid was placed by at auction.
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