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Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Autumn (1616), Fearless: The Collection of Hester Diamond, Sotheby’s, New York, 29 January. Estimate $8m-$12m The late art dealer, collector and interior designer Hester Diamond may have been birdlike in stature but she made up for it with big, bold taste. Her Manhattan home mixed bright contemporary furniture by the likes of Marcel Wanders and Dror Benshetrit with Renaissance paintings, 16th-century limewood sculptures and rare minerals. The star of Sotheby’s sale of her collection is this twisting, Baroque marble sculpture of autumn by Gian Lorenzo Bern...

© Bonhams Classic cars make the big noise in the newspapers. Given that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO sold for almost $50m in 2018, it’s not hard to see why. But collectors could be missing out on a related market that has also been “quietly” appreciating in recent years – classic motorbikes.  Some vintage bikes, like their four-wheeled brethren, do, of course, sell for eye-watering sums. Take, for instance, the 1936 Brough Superior 982C SS100 (pictured) that fetched £276,000 with Bonhams at Bicester Heritage in Oxfordshire last month. During the weekend-long sale, which raised £3m, two ...