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48 12th March 2011 dealers’ dossier Art for the middle market


MOST seemed pleased with business after this year’s 20/21 International Art Fair from February 17 to 20 at the Royal College of Art, where lower and middle range items were selling well. This is a good event for fi rst purchases


Above: at the Chester Antiques Show, Norfolk clock specialists Olde Time sold this ormolu French Empire clock for £4800.


The right time for Chester


APPARENTLY, business was buoyant at Caroline Penman’s latest Chester Antiques Show, at Chester Racecourse from February 10 to 13, a traditional affair where period furniture generally has a good following. “We’ve seen an upsurge in interest,”


explained organiser Caroline Penman, “this fair is noted for its breadth and quality of exhibits and customers travel long distances to be here and it was encouraging in these diffi cult times to see so many sales being made, and particularly period furniture at the top of the range.” After several years absence from the


fair, Anthemion from Cartmel, Cumbria, returned this year and sold to new customers, with sales including a twin- pillar Georgian dining table and eight chairs, and a serpentine chest of drawers. Other specialists who were pleased


with business included Art Nouveau and Art Deco dealers Rivington Decorative Arts from Bolton and Solo Antiques from Preston, and, with pictures, Knutsford-based dealer Patrick Payne of Phoenix Fine Art (English watercolours and contemporary cartoons) and Rowles Fine Art from Welshpool, who sold oil paintings and bronze sculpture. The next Chester show is from


October 20 to 23.


and a busy weekend led to healthy sales for the modern and contemporary British and international works on offer, predominantly at prices up to around £10,000. The majority of dealers came away in profi t but, if they did not, they generally had business in the pipeline, or at least some new contacts. This year the fair had 10 more stands


than usual on the lower level. There is the potential that stands in this area might miss the crowds, but two dealers here, fi rst timers at the fair did particularly well. Dominic Kemp sold 21 of his Modern


British prints, whilst Michael Cane from the West Country sold seven pictures priced between £1000 and £8000. Regular exhibitor The Court Gallery from Somerset sold a Sickert drawing, a Jean Marchand oil and two works by Duncan Grant among others, and owner Denys Wilcox considered this “a good fair and on a par with 2010”. Organisers Gay Hutson and Angela


(Bunny) Wynn also stage the 20/21 British Art Fair at the same venue in the autumn, catering for a higher sector of the market, but the International fair’s difference is that it also accommodates a sprinkling of specialist dealers in the art of other countries. Those doing well


Above: at the 20/21 International Art Fair, Belgrave St Ives sold this Winter Landscape With Dragon from 1986 by Patrick Hayman (1915-1988), 16 x 20in (41 x 51cm), oil on canvas, for between £4000 and £6000.


included ArtChinese with works by Japanese, Chinese and Korean artists, Danusha and ArteLia from the Ukraine, and Vernissage from Poland. For Belgrave St Ives, who won the


best-dressed stand award, this was their inaugural art fair since an amicable separation from Belgrave Gallery London last autumn. Michael Gaca, who has managed the St Ives gallery since its inception in


Mobster chic for the summer ball


FOLLOWING last year’s James Bond themed event, Ingrid Nilson of The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited will hold a second Secret Antiques Dealers’ Ball to coincide with both Art Antiques London and the Summer Olympia fair. The ball will take place on June 10, again at The Hilton Olympia hotel at 380


Kensington High Street, and the theme is Glamorous Gangsters. The dress code is mobster chic and proceedings will kick off at 7.30 pm with Bloody


Marys, followed by a three course meal with (Sicilian) wine, a raffl e and Bonnie and Clyde disco until 1am. Tickets will cost £48 plus VAT per person, or £450 plus VAT for a table of 10. The deadline to apply for tickets is April 30, contact gangsters@adfl .co.uk or telephone Ingrid on 01797 252030.


1998, took a mixture of Modern British and Contemporary work, mostly with a Cornish connection, and one of their key sales was a late oil painting by Patrick Hayman. They also sold a 1949 CoBrA-period


oil by William Gear, drawings by Roger Hilton and Keith Vaughan, and contemporary pieces by Ffi ona Lewis, Jason Lilley and the ceramicists Dan Kelly and Rebecca Harvey.


CORRECTION In the report of Lomax Antiques Fairs’ City of Norwich Antiques Fair from February 25 to 27 (ATG 1979), I incorrectly stated that Magus Antiques of London would stand at the fair. It was in fact Magus Antiques of Beverley, Yorkshire, who exhibited at the fair, and I apologise for any confusion caused.


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