There’s no shortage of great picks at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht, the Netherlands, including a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, a pastel portrait by Dora Maar and two sections of 4th-century Roman mosaics

Estimate in excess of £20,000,000 Ӏ Sold £22,895,000 Fabergé Easter eggs made for Russia’s Imperial family, the Romanovs, are as rare as hens’ teeth. With only 50 produced between 1885 and 1916, the m

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

Globally acclaimed English tile-maker celebrates 50th anniversary ‘Each tile we make is a piece of art,’ says Doug Watson, who founded an artisanal workshop handcrafting and hand-painting exquisite ce

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

Sibyls , the book born of Ruth Fainlight’s poems and Leonard Baskin’s prints, became a memento of friendship, beauty and sorrow for its author