News 64 Art Market

Susan Moore previews Sotheby’s sale of the Spencer Collection and reviews recent private collection sales 72 Architecture

Gavin Stamp on the revival of Classicism 74 Collectors’ Focus

Emma Crichton-Miller on the market for outdoor sculpture 76 Around the Galleries by Annie Blinkhorn Exhibitions 79 ‘Lucian Freud: L’Atelier’

by Marco Livingstone 82 ‘Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Retrospective’

by Paul Bonaventura 84 ‘Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age’

by Jonathan Lopez 86 ‘Triumph of the Blue Swords’

and ‘Fascination of Fragility’ by Louise Nicholson 88 ‘Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver

Service Rediscovered’ by Tessa Murdoch Books 91 Off the Shelf 92 Helena Attlee, Charles Latham’s

Gardens of Italy, by Judith B. Tankard 93 Julian Machin, Adrian Ryan: Rather a Rum Life, by John Russell Taylor 95 Meredith Chilton (ed), Fired by

Passion: Vienna Baroque Porcelain of Claudius Innocentius du Paquier, by Philippa Glanville 98 Tricia Cusack, Riverscapes and

National Identities, by Averil King 106 From the Archives

Robert O’Byrne looks back at Apollo’s September 1979 issue

Art Market: pp. 64–68

Lucian Freud: pp. 79–81

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