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See our guide: https://atg.news/2zaGmwp 7 1 -2 0 2 1 9 1 ISSUE 2482 | antiquestradegazette.com | 6 March 2021 | UK £4.99 | USA $7.95 | Europe €5.50 S E E R 50years D koopman rare art V A I R N T antiques trade G T H E A Royal German 19th century claret jug KOOPMAN (see Client Templates for issue versions) THE ART M ARKET WEEKLY [email protected] +44 (0)20 7242 7624 www.koopman.art Trade delight at lockdown easing by Laura Chesters England thus far has included art and antiques dealers, cen- tres, auction houses and Plans for shop reopenings, new non-essential markets – will be fair dates and rescheduled auc- able to reopen premises to the tions are under way as the art public, as will public libraries. and antiques sector welcomed ‘Step three’ will come at the news of the government least five weeks later, on May 17 ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown in at the earliest, with most out- England. door social contact rules lifted, UK Prime Minister Boris as well as limited mixing Johnson detailed key dates indoors. when some of the current The Department for Digital, restrictions in England can be Culture, Media and Sport eased. (DCMS) confirmed to ATG From Monday, April 12, the that “antique fairs held in con- ‘step two’ phase means non- ference centres or similar essential retail – a category that during all lockdowns in Continued on page 4 Euro will remain the ARR Above: Weisses Interieur (White Interior) by Carl Moll – a record $4m (£2.86m) at Freeman’s. currency, government says by Alex Capon with the EU. As reported in The $4m house record ATG No 2476, the text of the agreement includes clauses An evocative interior scene by one of the writer and art critic Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps in The UK government has con- relating to the resale levy in founding members of the Vienna Secession her apartment in Döbling, Vienna. An important firmed to ATG that it has “no which both the EU and UK movement set a landmark price at Freeman’s of cultural figure who ran an influential salon, she plans to make changes to either have committed to continuing Philadelphia on February 23. was at the centre of an intellectual circle (she the rates of Artist’s Resale ARR as part of maintaining a Weisses Interieur (White Interior) by Carl Moll Right that are applied or how level playing field between their (1861-1945) dates from 1905 and depicts the Continued on page 4 the levy operates” following the post-Brexit trade deal agreed Continued on page 4 BREXIT: Dealers make the most of a bad deal p26-28 CITES: The latest rule updates p30-31 Over 50,000 auction catalogues available in digitally scanned or hard copy format For more information please visit www.thecatalogstar.com or call 01225 829 090 Increase value with proof of provenance Follow us on Twitter Antiques Trade Gazette is published and originated by Metropress Ltd, Contents@ATG_Editorial Issue 2482 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 In The News page 4-5 Digital & Art Market Editor Alex Capon Tale of smuggling and seduction Reporter Frances Allitt Marketing Manager Beverley Marshall How Cromwell’s warhorse ‘became a tankard’ Print & ProduCtion Director Justin Massie-Taylor SUBSCRIPTIONS ENQUIRIES News Digest page 6-7 Polly Stevens +44 (0)20 3725 5507 [email protected] Includes our pick of the week EDITORIAL +44 (0)20 3725 5520 [email protected] Auction Reports ADVERTISING HAMMER HIGHLIGHTS +44 (0)20 3725 5604 [email protected] Anglo-French collaboration page 10-12 AUCTION ADVERTISING Charlotte Scott-Smith +44 (0)20 3725 5602 ART MARKET [email protected] Value boosted by family values page 14-15 Simply wunderbar NON-AUCTION & FAIRS AND MARKETS ADVERTISING BOOKS AND WORKS ON PAPER Marvellous German and Dan Connor +44 (0)20 3725 5605 Swiss auction lots sold or [email protected] Bumper two-day auction page 18-20 CLASSIFIED coming up soon Rebecca Bridges +44 (0)20 3725 5604 page 34-36 [email protected] Previews page 22-23 INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING Susan Glinska +44 (0)20 3725 5607 [email protected] Dealers’ Diary Francine Libessart +44 (0)20 3725 5613 Brexit: making the most of a bad deal page 26-28 [email protected] CALENDAR CONTROLLER Rachel Fellman +44 (0)20 3725 5606 Feature - CITES [email protected] ATG PRODUCTION +44 (0)20 3725 5620 Latest rundown on what the trade needs to Muireann Grealy +44 (0)20 3725 5623 know after recent changes page 30-31 SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES This product is produced from International Events sustainably managed German and Swiss special focus page 32-37 forests and controlled sources. 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Sign up today for FREE and stay one step ahead antiquestradegazette.com/morningbriefing 2 | 6 March 2021 antiquestradegazette.com PAGE 002 2482.indd 1 26/02/2021 13:53:19 Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) Edgar Degas (1834-1917) The Martyrdom of Saint Catherine Self Portrait in a Cap and Scarf with the Face The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate after by George-William Thornley Woodcut, circa 1498. Dark: Bust Etching and engraving, 1633. A la Barre Est. £10,000-15,000 Etching, 1633. Est. £5,000-7,000 Lithograph 1888-89. Est. £3,000-5,000 Est. £10,000-15,000 Marc Chagall (1887-1985) Henri Matisse (1869-1954) Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Kenneth Armitage (1916-2002) Cirque (Cramer 68) Nu au Coussin Bleu (Duthuit 442) Profil de Jacqueline Little Winged Figure The book, 1967, comprising 38 Lithograph, 1924. Silver repoussé charger, conceived in 1956. Bronze with a blackish/brown patina, lithographs. Est. £22,000-26,000 Est. £30,000-50,000 conceived in 1961, cast 1966-1989. Est. £80,000-120,000 Est. £4,000-6,000 Alexander Calder (1898-1976) Keith Haring (1958-1990) Damien Hirst (b.1965) Damien Hirst (b.1965) Blue Sun from Conspiracy The Blueprint Drawings (see Littmann p.178) S-Lactoylglutathione H4-8. Keukenhof Lithograph printed in colours, 1971. Screenprint, 1990. Screenprint in colours with UV glaze, 2011. Diasec-mounted giclée print in colours on Est. £6,000-8,000 Est. £15,000-20,000 Est. £10,000-12,000 aluminium panel, 2020. Est. £10,000-15,000 David Hockney (b.1937) Simon Patterson (b.1967) Simon Patterson (b.1967) Pejac (b.1977) iphone Drawing No 535, 28th June 2009 The Great Bear Saptarishi H20 Digitial pigment print in colours, 2019. Lithograph printed in colours, 1992. Fired enamel on iron, 2012. Photo-gravure with additions in Est. £12,000-15,000 Est. £20,000-25,000 Est. £14,000-16,000 graphite, 2019. Est. £3,000-5,000 Editions and Works on Paper 1500-2020 Auction: Thursday 11th March, 1:00pm | Live ‘behind closed doors’ at Forum Auctions Bidding and information: [email protected] | +44 (0) 20 7871 2640 For more details, full viewing times and catalogues, please visit: forumauctions.co.uk Buyer’s premium (plus VAT if applicable) applies to all lots at 25% of the hammer price up to £150,000 and 20% thereafter. The Artist’s Resale Right fee also applies to all lots. PAGE 003 2482.indd 2 25/02/2021 17:36:56 News Government: no Trade gears up for lockdown easing ARR changes Continued from front page Right: among the Furniture, Works of Art & events that can Clocks on April 20-21, Silver & Continued from front page settings are classified as busi- take place in April Objects of Vertu on April 27-28 ness events, and we seek to is dealer Freya and Jewellery on April 29. marketplaces. These commit reopen these in step three, sub- Mitton’s Modern John Axford, W&W chair- the UK to maintaining a resale ject to a capacity cap”. British Art exhibition man, said: “With a little right of some form but in theory The cap on numbers indoors at the Victoria Art rejigging in places, we have the government could make is 1000 people or 50% of a Gallery in Bath. effectively moved our calendar changes to the percentages and venue’s capacity, whichever is Among the pictures on by three months and com- thresholds as well as how the lower, and for outdoor events it for sale is this John bined some sale dates so that levy is applied.