Forthcoming Auctions
British Empire & Foreign Countries
Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 November 2023
This auction will feature the fine collection of South Africa formed by the late Squadron Leader John Shaw MBE, FRPSL, the Williams Family collection of India & States and a section of specialised Falkland Islands and Antarctica including scarce Operation Tabarin items from the Gerry Pearce collection.
This auction is now closed for consignments and the catalogue is in preparation.
Great Britain
Thursday 30 November and Friday 1 December 2023
Grosvenor is home to the only regular major auctions of Great Britain offering traditional favourites as well as exploring fascinating developed areas of specialist interest. This sale will include the British section of the John Ineson collection of Scouting.
This auction is now closed for consignments and the catalogue is in preparation.
British Empire & Foreign Countries
Wednesday 13 March 2024
This sale will close for consignments on 9 January 2024.
Great Britain
Wednesday 24 April 2024
This sale will close for consignments on 21 February 2024.
British Empire & Foreign Countries
5 June 2024
This sale will close for consignments on 1 April 2024.
Ma volonté est que mes dessins, mes estampes, mes bibelots, mes livres, enfin les choses d’art qui ont fait le bonheur de ma vie, n’aient pas la froide tombe d’un musée, et le regard bête du passant indifférent, et je demande qu’elles soient toutes éparpillées sous les coups de marteau d’un commissaire-priseur et que la jouissance que m’a procurée l’acquisition de chacune d’elles, soit redonnée, pour chacune d’elles, à un héritier de mes goûts.
My wish is that my drawings, my prints, my trinkets, my books, those artistic things that gave me happiness in life, should not fall into the cold tomb of a museum, and suffer the ignorant stares of indifferent passers-by, and I ask that they be dispersed under the hammer of an auctioneer and that the enjoyment that each acquisition gave to me, be passed on to a new owner of the same tastes as mine.
The Will of Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896)