Lord Attenborough

Attenborough sells art for £4.6m

BBC News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

Film director Lord Attenborough's personal art collection of 20th century British paintings sells for £4.6m at an auction in London.

Attenborough Art Is An Auction Hit

Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

British moviemaker LORD ATTENBOROUGH's art collection has been a big hit at auction in London, doubling the pre-sale estimates.The 50 pieces of British art went under...

Film director Lord Attenborough sells 51 paintings for £4.6 million

Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

He bought the first of them while too poor to afford curtains, but yesterday Lord Attenborough sold 51 pictures for £4.6 million. The actor and director has collected modern British art for 60 years and chose to sell many of them because he has run out of space at his home in Richmond, West London. The sale at Sotheby’s took more than double the estimate, with L. S. Lowry’s Old Houses,...

• Lord Attenborough's picture sale makes £4.6m at Sotheby's - The Telegraph

Sotheby's to Auction Lord Attenborough's Superb Cross-Section of British Art

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009

LONDON.- Following the announcement in August of the sale of a group of pictures from the collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, Sotheby’s is now providing further details of this spectacular, one-off single-owner sale. "A Life In Pictures: The Collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough" will present a superb cross-section...

Attenborough art clearout set to fetch £2m

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Filmmaker and wife put 51 artworks by likes of LS Lowry and Henry Moore up for auction after running out of walls Film buffs might find something curiously familiar in a 1918 engraving by the artist Christopher Nevinson, showing four Tommies perched up a telegraph pole rigging communication lines: Lord Attenborough recreated the image virtually line by line in his classic 1969 film, Oh What a Lovely...

Lord Attenborough's art collection: the battle of Bond Street

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Lord and Lady Attenborough's art collection on sale at Sotheby's includes a remarkable group of First World War prints.

Lord Attenborough's art collection: the battle of New Bond Street

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Lord and Lady Attenborough's art collection on sale at Sotheby's includes a remarkable group of First World War prints.

Auntie, by Grayson Perry.

PM (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009

Mr Perry, best known for his pots and picking up the 2003 Turner Prize while dressed as his alter ego Claire, is due to be live at the Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park with Nigel Wrench later. In the meantime, here's part of his latest work, The Walthamstow Tapestry, 15 metres long and on display at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London. Nigel writes: "At Frieze, now one of the world's biggest...

Sotheby's London Provides Previews of Paintings of Lord Attenborough November Sale

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 26/09/2009

LONDON.- Following the announcement in August of the sale of a group of pictures from the collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday, November 11, 2009, Sotheby’s is now providing further details of this spectacular, one-off single-owner sale . A Life In Pictures: The Collection of Lord and Lady Attenborough will present a superb cross-section of British...

• Sotheby's Provides Further Details and Presents Paintings of Lord Attenborough Sale - Artdaily

Attenborough sells art collection

BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009

Film director and actor Lord Attenborough is to sell off some of his collection of 20th century British paintings, at an auction in London.

Lord and Lady Attenborough To Sell Off Collection

Luxist (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009

Lord and Lady Attenborough are the latest luminaries to sell off their treasures. The talented pair are selling off a collection of 50 works of art including paintings by top British artists such as LS Lowry, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland. The paintings will be sold at Sotheby's London on November 11. This is a beloved and personal collection and many of the paintings...

Lord Attenborough's Lowry gets careful treatment at Sotheby's

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009

Sotheby's staff carefully hung a Lowry belonging Lord Attenborough on Thursday ahead of a sale of British 20th century paintings belonging to the film director and his wife.

Lord Attenborough's clearance sale

Evening Standard - News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009

Lord Attenborough is to sell off his treasured paintings — because he says he has run out of wall space

Lord Attenborough 'making progress'

Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009

Film veteran Richard Attenborough is "making progress" after spending Christmas in hospital following a fall, according to a hospital spokesman.

Lord Attenborough 'making progress'

Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009

Richard Attenborough is "making progress" after spending Christmas in hospital following a fall.