Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner

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.

Many faces of Mod Brit art
17 February 2020Modestly catalogued as English School, 1960s, a Modern British study of a head emerged as one of the top-selling pictures at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium) in Stansted Mountfitchet.

French artist's view of Normandy in the snow makes ten-times estimate in Sussex auction
10 February 2020This early-20th century snow scene, below, was painted by the French artist Paul Elie Gernez (1888-1948). He was primarily a naturalist painter of still-lives, landscapes and seascapes, and spent much of his life in Honfleur in Normandy.

Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including a Walter Greaves Thames work on paper
10 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Walter Greaves Thames scene.

Late Cedric Morris comes into bloom
10 February 2020Eight-strong group by the artist-plantsman provides market pointer for his post-1930s work

Pre-Raphaelite followers take the limelight
10 February 2020Drawings by two later followers of the Pre-Raphaelites drew competition at separate regional salerooms.

Lowry drawing of bearded man with walking cane sells above hopes at Capes Dunn
10 February 2020This pencil drawing of a bearded man with a walking cane by LS Lowry (1887-1976) is typical of the stylised figures based on the men and women the artist passed in the street.

Portrait of the ‘ablest man in the army’ makes over 60-times estimate at Hansons
03 February 2020This 19th century half-length portrait right depicts the Anglo-Irish soldier and politician William Carr Beresford (1768-1854) who fought alongside The Duke of Wellington.

Sickert shows his lighter side at Lawrences' auction
03 February 2020Late work by the pivotal avant-garde painter belies the dark nature of earlier works

Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including an Ernest Procter watercolour
03 February 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Ernest Procter watercolour.

Grotesque figures on 16th century engraving delight a buyer
03 February 2020Populated with grotesque figures, this 16th century engraving after the early Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) sold for £16,000 at auction in London.

Burmese watercolours find admirers in a south coast saleroom
03 February 2020Two large watercolours painted by Y Ba Nyan (1897-1947), one of Burma’s most influential Modern artists, emerged for sale in Folkestone at the end of last year.

Tennants go under starter’s orders for a new sporting art sale
27 January 2020North Yorkshire saleroom Tennants (20% buyer’s premium) got its inaugural sale of sporting art off to a good start, selling just over £100,000 worth of pictures and sculpture.

Sporting art collectors take to the field again
27 January 2020Hopes are high that the market for traditional British sporting paintings could experience a boost in demand after a single-owner collection racked up over £2m at auction in London.

The dog found in an attic: Charterhouse sells Maud Earl painting
27 January 2020Found in the roof space of a Devon cottage, an oil painting of a pointer dog in an open field sold for £3400 at Sherborne saleroom Charterhouse (25% buyer’s premium).

Dead pheasant study attributed to Turner draws interest at Perth auction house
27 January 2020A watercolour study of a dead pheasant attributed to JMW Turner (1775-1851) was taken to £14,000 at a Scottish auction house.

Affordable art: Three works sold for £1500 or under including a John Cyril Harrison watercolour
27 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a John Cyril Harrison watercolour.

Sensitive portrait of ‘quiet Ulsterman’ grabs the attention
20 January 2020A sensitive portrait of a First World War soldier by the Irish painter William Orpen (1878-1931) was among a series of valuable lots chased by bidders at art sales in Dublin.

Bidders show a homing instinct
20 January 2020Private domestic demand rather than trade drives bidding at Scottish and Irish art auctions.