Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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.
Pick up a penguin picture
20 January 2020The English artist and poster designer Alfred Thomson (1894-1979) painted this eye-catching depiction of the famous penguin pool at London Zoo.
Victorian artist William Mitchell impresses at Mitchells’ auction
20 January 2020A harbour view of Maryport in Cumbria by Victorian artist William Mitchell (1806-1900) topped the lots at local saleroom Mitchells (20% buyer’s premium).
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including a Henry Moore etching
20 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Henry Moore etching.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including an Eric Ravilious print
13 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Eric Ravilious print.
Old Masters – it’s a world of finite resources
13 January 2020Dearth of fresh works coming to the market is a challenge for Old Master auction series.
Australian works? No worries
06 January 2020Varied selection of Down Under images joins British art on offer in Salisbury saleroom.
Pair of Hodgkins high sale prices
06 January 2020Two Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) gouache watercolours painted during her artistic prime were taken to multi-estimate sums at separate UK salerooms in the same week.
Mything in action: spirited Armstrong
06 January 2020Rarely seen in public before, this signed 18in x 2ft (45 x 65cm) gouache is one of the earliest works by the British Modernist painter John Armstrong (1893-1973).
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1650 including a William Henry Hunt self-portrait
06 January 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a William Henry Hunt self-portrait.
Wyndham Lewis portrait sells in Exeter
06 January 2020A bid of £5000 from a Contemporary art gallery in London secured this post-war portrait by the writer and Vorticist painter Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).
It’s Grimshaw down south
28 December 2019Paintings by Leeds-born artist Louis H Grimshaw (1870-1943) are often overshadowed by his better-known father, John Atkinson Grimshaw (1863-93).
Sporting scenes tracked down by eager buyers
28 December 2019Several 19th and 20th century sporting paintings from named estates provided a healthy boost at two regional salerooms.
Drawn to Paris in its prime
28 December 2019Paintings by 20th century artists who flocked to Paris during its artistic heyday were the main focus in a sale of Impressionist, Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art at south London auction house Roseberys (25/20/12% buyer’s premium).
Life’s a simple beach for Boudin
23 December 2019“I will always be a painter of beaches,” declared Eugène Boudin (1824-98) in 1864.