Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2250 including a David Young Cameron castle view
23 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a David Young Cameron castle view.
Dutch seascape sweeps into Tyneside
16 December 2019A ‘prominent’ northern English family consigned a seascape by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael (1628-82) to Anderson & Garland (22% buyer’s premium).
Classic work kicks off new sale format
16 December 2019An international buyer paid £34,000 for a 15th century Netherlandish School oil on panel of the Virgin and St Elizabeth which was last on the market in 1955.
Engravings succeed through thick and thin
16 December 2019A pair of engravings after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-69) sold for more than six-times estimate at auction in Essex.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £900 including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print
16 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Herbert Thomas Dicksee polar bear print.
Selection day - voting for quality
16 December 2019Bidders respond positively to auction combination of quality, freshness and pricing.
Robert Bevan's horse-drawn cab painting hailed by bidders at London's Mod Brit series
09 December 2019A Post-Impressionist painting of a horse-drawn hansom cab by Robert Bevan (1865-1925) was one of the headline lots at the Modern British art sales in London.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2250 including a John Piper church screen print
09 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a John Piper church screen print.
Album displays Bristol’s brightest minds
09 December 2019Watercolour collection sold at auction represents a ‘who’s who’ of the city in the 1830s
Norse legend makes a watercolour wonder
09 December 2019An early watercolour by Isabel Codrington (1874-1943) depicts the Norse legend of the goddess Iduna and King Thiassi, who disguised himself as an eagle to kidnap her.
Victorian suffragette artist on song at North Yorkshire auction
09 December 2019Fewer than 30 works are known by the Victorian artist and noted Suffragette Susan Isabel Dacre (1844-1933).
Orientalist pastel by Carl Haag exceeds estimate in Maidenhead
09 December 2019A piece of Orientalist art by German-born watercolourist Carl Haag (1820-1915) drew multiple bids at Maidenhead saleroom Dawson’s (23% buyer’s premium).
Classic coach scene by James Pollard
02 December 2019This classic mail coach scene by the 19th century painter James Pollard (1792-1867) doubled pre-sale hopes in a picture auction at Surrey saleroom John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium).
Twentieth century portraits of notable sitters are all the rage among eager buyers
02 December 2019A spate of early to mid-20th century portraits of society figures and important personalities generated stiff competition at UK sales in London and the regions.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1750 including an Anne Redpath cityscape
02 December 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Anne Redpath cityscape.
Farquharson brings the sun to Dorset
02 December 2019Included among more than 70 paintings and prints offered at Dorset saleroom Clarke’s Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) was this uncharacteristic Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935) oil of the artist’s garden in Aberdeenshire.
Harold Harvey's Kit keeps her intense appeal
02 December 2019When this portrait of a young woman was first exhibited in the early 1930s, critics remarked on its “intensity and vital quality”, “the charming head” and the “wonderful life-like expression”.
Moulton Foweraker’s light of the moon
02 December 2019Albert Moulton Foweraker’s (1873-1942) main interest as a watercolourist was the effect of blue moonlight on the landscape.
St Ives influence strong in Lyon & Turnbull's London sale
25 November 2019Group of works from the Cornish school underpins a positive Modern British offering
‘Exceptional’ wartime sketches bring high demand at Dominic Winter
25 November 2019A group of “historically important” watercolour and pencil drawings of the London Blitz sparked a bidding war at Cirencester saleroom Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium).