Market 92 Art Market
Susan Moore looks ahead to Old Master auctions in London and reviews Frieze Week sales 100 Collectors’ Focus
Emma Crichton-Miller on Doccia porcelain 102 Art Business
Melanie Gerlis asks if auction catalogues have a future
Reviews 106 ‘Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word,
War’ by Amy Jeffs 108 ‘Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice’
by Christopher Baker 110 ‘Romanticismo’ by Michael Prodger 112 ‘Frans Hals and the Moderns’ by Jo Lawson-Tancred 115 Off the Shelf 116 Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen,
Martin Eidelberg, Adrienne Spinozzi, American Art Pottery: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, by Isabella Smith 118 Charles Darwent, Joseph Albers: Life and Work, by Frances Spalding 122 From the Archives
Robert O’Byrne revisits a royal Apollo blunder from the 1960s p. 92
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