Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Click and flick through books
19 April 2021Having missed the ritual of perusing bookshelves in shops and fairs due to lockdown, Marc and Marcia Harrison of Netherlands gallery Harrison Hiett Rare Books have launched a digital ‘fully clickable’ catalogue to replicate the experience for their clients.
Bordeaux embraces avant-garde
19 April 2021Exhibition tells the tale of an unconventional partnership opening up a conservative art scene
Athill retires and Edwards takes MD role at Abbott and Holder
19 April 2021Tom Edwards is now managing director of London picture dealership Abbott and Holder following the retirement of co-director Philip Athill.
The web shop window: a ‘tour de force’ of Meiji craftsmanship
19 April 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Showcase of lesser-known Spanish art at Colnaghi
12 April 2021Titled 'Tossa de Mar' (c.1908), this painting by the Spanish Impressionist Laureano Barrau (1863-1957) forms part of an exhibition at London gallery Colnaghi putting some of Spain’s lesser-known modern masters in the limelight.
Amsterdam tribal fair online, take two
12 April 2021This dance mask known as a takü, would have been used during rituals to mourn the dead by the Cubeo tribes of present-day Colombia and Brazil.
Tiepolo study motivated by motifs offered by London dealer
12 April 2021Old Master sheets such as this lively example of satyr and Bacchus studies are believed to have served as a repertoire of motifs used in paintings or prints by the artist or their studio.
Battersea Dec reflects the new way of doing business
12 April 2021The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair (DATF) has announced the launch of its latest iteration of the online platform, Digital Decorative, which was set up in response to the cancellation of its physical fairs during the pandemic.
The web shop window: John Bratby's portrait of Guy the Gorilla
12 April 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Ingenious furniture designs for army officers on campaign are highlighted in Cotswolds exhibition
12 April 2021Good-quality campaign furniture has long been admired for its nifty portable designs, fine craftsmanship and rich provenance.
5 Questions: tribal art dealer and fair organiser Finette Lemaire
12 April 2021Finette Lemaire specialises in tribal art and owns Galerie Lemaire in Amsterdam.
Who said suburban life was dull?
05 April 2021More Mod Brit delights from the Freer collection kept in a house full to bursting point
Artists uncertain but appeal clear to bidders
05 April 2021Portraits boosted takings at Mallams’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest picture sale in Oxford.
Venus copies old and new
05 April 2021Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty, has been a favourite subject in art since ancient times.
Latest highlights from four book dealers
29 March 2021From Hans Christian Andersen to Ian Fleming, ATG selects a clutch of literary highlights in catalogues launched this spring by several UK-based book dealers
Unrecorded Campagna bronze offered at Paris gallery
29 March 2021Attributed to northern Italian sculptor Girolamo Campagna (1549-1625), this hitherto unrecorded model of Amphitrite, Poseidon’s wife, features in an exhibition of Renaissance sculpture under way at Galerie Sismann.
Rutherston eases market woes
29 March 2021Trading with EU member states has become more difficult and expensive since the UK left the European Union, but one dealer may have found a way to avoid the bureaucratic hurdles.
The web shop window: Portland stone chimney piece
29 March 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
5 Questions: Anthony Bridgman
29 March 2021Anthony Bridgman is head of restoration at Westland London where he has worked since the 1990s. Established by Geoff Westland in 1969, the firm deals in architectural and decorative antiques and has built one of the largest collections of antique chimney pieces in the world, with some 750 examples.
Buckles go under the microscope at Wartski
29 March 2021These gold-mounted hardstone buckles are among only a few surviving examples of jewellery by the Dresden master goldsmith Johann Christian Neuber (1736-1808).