Beautiful items at auction from private collections

A sale of Style from private collections is to take place next month. With a focus on works sourced from private collections throughout Europe – often with distinguished provenance – Style: Private Collections will appeal to connoisseurs and decorators alike, each drawn to the eclectic mix property. The sale includes important French and English furniture,…

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Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionists auction

A sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite and British Impressionist Art is taking place at Sotheby’s this July. The auction will take place on 11 July in London, starting at noon. Sotheby’s are now accepting consignments for their summer sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art which will include drawings, watercolours and paintings by a diverse…

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Works by Old Masters for auction at Sotheby’s sale

Art collectors have the opportunity to collect a work by an Old Master at Sotheby’s. The Old Master mid-season sale includes excellent examples from most major schools of painting in Western Europe. With prices ranging from £1,000-120,000 this is the perfect opportunity for new buyers to discover the virtues of collecting Old Masters, while offering…

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Time’s running out to bid in online auction

A firm is holding an online auction of unsold lots from a sale last week. A host of paintings, sculptures, swords and other weaponry are being auctioned by Holts Auctioneers, who specialise in fine, modern and antique guns. The lots were unsold by Holts at a sale on 19 March, and bids are now being…

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The Antiques Roadshow is back for more

The BBC’s Antiques Roadshow returns to Scotland for an edition which will be shown on Mother’s Day. After the taste of glorious Crathes Castle summer sunshine that reached our screens in January, the BBC team are back for a second outing National Trust for Scotland property. The second of two programmes filmed at Crathes last…

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Two new art exhibitions are all ready to open

Two shows are opening tomorrow at The Fine Art Society in Edinburgh. The first is an exhibition of Scottish landscape paintings by Victoria Orr Ewing (b.1962). Her pictures depict remote crofts and unsullied vistas of Galloway, the Highlands and the west coast of Scotland all dwarfed by churning, luminescent skies. Galloway-born Orr Ewing lived and…

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Rooms II is challenging gallery norms

A Scots gallery is presenting Rooms II – an exhibition curated by the Green Gallery and Steven Burgess Fine Furniture this weekend. The Green Gallery have joined forces with Steven Burgess Fine Furniture for the second year running. They believe they are the only gallery in Scotland do this – creating room set ups, but…

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Moy Mackay ready for this year’s Borders Art Fair

Scottish landscape artist and author Moy Mackay is poised to reveal her new collection of work this week. She will literally pull all her threads together in readiness for her appearance at this year’s Borders Art Fair held at Springwood Park in Kelso from 15–17 March. As a non-profit organisation, opportunities for public and private…

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New selection on show at the Glasgow Art Studio

The Glasgow Print Studio has a new display in its Ground Floor Gallery. During they month of March, they are showing a selection of works that they showed at London Art Fair 2019 in January. Recent and new publications here include Smug Cogito by Alasdair Gray, Pretty Vacant by Jim Lambie, and Calculated Risk by…

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Taking his time to capture nature in its full beauty

To David Johnston, member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, the north east is an artist’s paradise. Panoramic views of north eastern coastlines, woodlands teeming with fauna and flora, and majestic hills rolling effortlessly into the horizon – we are undoubtedly spoiled by the natural beauty of Aberdeenshire. Though many of us…

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