Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Haunting Bueno portrait locks in real human hair
22 July 2019In a relatively short period from 1959-64, the Spanish-Italian Realist Xavier Bueno (1915-79) created his most recognisable works: a series of melancholic and haunting portraits of children. For Bueno these ‘Bambini’ portraits symbolised a “humiliated and oppressed humanity”.
Flemish artist flourishes in Essex sale
22 July 2019The Flemish post-Impressionist Emile Claus (1849-1924) embraced the prevailing taste for plein-air painting when he moved to the village of Astene by the river Lys in 1883.
Cuneo shows his steel
22 July 2019This rare American scene by noted railway painter Terence Cuneo (1907-96) turned up at Canterbury Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) in Kent.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including a plague plaque, a Willy Wonka golden ticket and a lost Marlborough gem
15 July 2019With estimates from £800-12,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Chiswick Auctions attracts more Constable consignments including £70,000 pencil landscape
15 July 2019Just four months after identifying two tiny compositional drawings as the work of John Constable (1776- 1837) and selling them for close to £90,000, west London saleroom Chiswick Auctions struck gold again with a third ‘rediscovered’ landscape.
Lin thrives in Ludlow
15 July 2019A large canvas by the Taiwan-born British minimalist Richard Lin (1933-2011) sailed to £84,000 at Ludlow saleroom McCartneys (17% buyer’s premium), setting a house record in the process.
Kyffin Williams and Norman Cornish help saleroom's specialist sale
15 July 2019Tennants credited “fresh-to-market pictures with a strong provenance” as the driving force behind the notable results in its Modern and Contemporary Art sale.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including Churchill chairs, a portrait miniature collection and Sèvres porcelain
08 July 2019With estimates from £100-70,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Sculptures shine as top 10 lots at Christie's
08 July 2019In what could well be a first, all 10 of Christie’s top evening sale lots on June 17 were sculptures. The group comprised the works of four blue-chip sculptors – Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink and Barry Flanagan – and contributed much of the overall total at £11.3m.
Eric Gill head and torso makes waves at Bonhams
08 July 2019Much of the pre-sale publicity from Bonhams’ June 15 Mod Brit focused on Eric Gill’s (1882-1942) Girl with a Comb in her Hair (1928) – a market-fresh carved head and torso valued at £200,000-300,000 and admired for its unusual pose and luxuriant wavy hair.
Records fall in Mod Brit sales despite a blue-chip dip
08 July 2019After a bullish 2018 for the major Modern British art sales in London – during which Christie’s posted its strongest evening sale to date – results from the first ‘Mod Brit’ series of 2019 looked a little flat by comparison.