Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3500 including a Harold Riley limited-edition print
16 March 2020Three works selling at regional sales below £3500, including a print of 'Lowry Walking on Swinton Moss' by Harold Riley.
Lowry harbour scene: more to mum’s taste
16 March 2020It was scenes of pleasure boats at Lytham St Anne’s on the Lancashire coast like the one shown below that Lowry’s mother supposedly favoured over her son’s darker industrial scenes.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including an Edith Lawrence linocut
09 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Edith Lawrence linocut.
Sybil Atteck labourer works well to sell
09 March 2020This portrait study is by Sybil Atteck (1911-75), a pioneering artist in Trinidad and Tobago of Chinese descent known for her work in watercolour.
Sexy and sultry Flint tempts buyer
09 March 2020Textbook watercolour by the British artist takes one of his higher prices in recent years.
Geoffroy shows his touch of class
09 March 2020The artist Henri Jules Jean Geoffroy (1853-1924), known as ‘Géo’, was a member of the French Naturalist movement and was best known for his paintings of Parisian children and daily urban life.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1000 including a typical Trevor Grimshaw work
02 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Trevor Grimshaw steam train.
Scottish Colourist's view of Villefranche exceeds estimate at Bellmans
02 March 2020Scottish Colourist George Leslie Hunter (1877-1931) is best known for his strong and vibrant still-lifes but landscapes also feature significantly in his oeuvre – and collectors will spend big to acquire the highest-quality examples.
Gwyneth Johnstone's frenetic scene of London home hits auction high in Cambridge sale
02 March 2020Auction prices are on the rise for the late Norfolk artist Gwyneth Johnstone (1914-2010), daughter of the artist Augustus John and niece of the Welsh painter Gwen John.
Karl Hofer expresses himself at Taunton auction
02 March 2020This late drawing by Karl Hofer (1878-1955), the German Expressionist painter who was branded a creator of ‘degenerate art’ by the Nazis, was one of dozens consigned by his family to Taunton saleroom Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium).
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including a Kenneth Newton still-life
24 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Kenneth Newton still-life.
All calm after a splitting headache
24 February 2020Pair of Abstract oils by Richard Smith had been cut in two but that did not deter the bidders.
Painter portrays a lover
24 February 2020This early-20th century portrait by Ronald Ossory Dunlop (1894-1973) depicts the actor and artist Jean Shepeard (1904-89).
From fisherfolk to high society
24 February 2020The 19th century Dutch painter Jozef Israëls (1824-1911), a leading member of the Hague School group of landscape painters, was best known for his realistic and sympathetic portrayals of the Dutch peasantry and fisherfolk.
Varley the watercolour wonder
17 February 2020Group of paintings by one of the less well-known masters of the medium comes to light
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1250 including a Marjorie Bruford oil
17 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Marjorie Bruford Cornish village scene.
Hockney snowbound print drifts into Lots Road
17 February 2020This large lithograph forms part of the Weather Series, a suite of prints created by David Hockney (b.1937) in 1973.
Dorothea Sharp still-life blooms with bold colour in Surrey
17 February 2020As well as painting sunny pictures of children on the beaches of Cornwall, Dorothea Sharp (1874-1955) frequently turned her paintbrush to still-lifes.
Burgess portrait of daughter draws serious attention in Dorset
17 February 2020The Victorian artist John Bagnold Burgess (1829- 97), grandson of a painter who counted Thomas Gainsborough among his pupils, was best known as a painter of genre scenes.
'New prints' refresh Japanese subjects
17 February 2020Shin-hanga, meaning ‘new prints’, emerged in Japan during the early 20th century. Aimed at Western tastes, the artistic movement combined the traditional colourful woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e with nostalgic and romanticised Japanese subjects.