One of the last portraits painted by Pablo Picasso is to go on display at Sotheby’s auction house in London.
Dora Maar With Cat, which depicts one of the Spanish artist’s many lovers, is expected to fetch $50m (£28.5m) when it goes on sale in New York on 3 May.
The 1941 artwork will become one of […]

One of Wales’ most significant castles, which has seen better days, is to be auctioned with a price tag of £1.5m.
Grade I-listed Gwrych Castle, which was built on the outskirts of Abergele in 1819, will go under the hammer in June.
The derelict castle has been targeted by vandals over the years, and restoring it could […]

A rare collection of books about birds, some dating back more than 100 years, has gone up for auction in Nottingham.
Some of the volumes, the oldest of which was produced in 1850, contain prints of birds and their eggs.
The items form part of a legacy which was left to the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
The books, which […]

A rare book of Shakespeare’s plays, considered to be one of the most important in British literature, is to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London.
The complete first folio of the playwright’s work had a print run of approximately 750 in 1623.
However, only a third of these survive and most of them are incomplete.
The book is […]

Two MPs have tabled a Commons motion demanding that internet auction sites ban the sale of Blue Peter badges.
Liberal Democrats John Barrett and Andrew George have condemned what they say is an “unscrupulous” practice.
They say the badges “should be earned, not bought or sold”, and selling them will “devalue their status”.
The BBC has suspended free […]

A HARBOROUGH auction house was the star of the small screen when programme-makers for television show Flog It visited.
A TV crew recorded an auction at Gildings in Roman Way on Tuesday as part of the BBC2 show, to be aired in about six months’ time. The auction drew a crowd of about 300.
In the show, […]

US Auction News
A bottle of the world’s oldest whisky, Glenfiddich Rare Collection 1937, will be auctioned off on April 4 in Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Terminal. The auction is part of New York’s Tartan Week celebration. A single cask of whisky produced 61 bottles of the whisky and due to import laws, this bottle […]