Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Palm Beach Show set to run as live event in February
25 January 2021The annual winter fair schedule in the Sunshine State has been upended by the pandemic but one of its anchor events plans to go ahead.
5 Questions: Contemporary art specialist Nick Crean
25 January 2021Nick Crean began his career running the private office of Charles and Maurice Saatchi and recently founded Crean & Company, an online gallery championing established and emerging mixed-media Contemporary artists.
Dealers lead online charge at The Winter Show in New York
18 January 2021New York’s Americana-focused event and longest-running antiques fair, The Winter Show, holds its 67th edition online from January 22-31 with around 60 exhibitors taking part.
The web shop window: Roger Broders' 1928 ski poster of Chamonix
18 January 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Pontormo provides bright spark in a grey world
18 January 2021This recently discovered grisaille painting of Adam and Eve by the Florentine Mannerist artist Jacopo Carucci (1494-1557), known as Pontormo, is the centrepiece of a new exhibition of monochromatic works at New York gallery Nicholas Hall.
Swedish painter’s alpine view brings a sense of place to Master Drawings New York
18 January 2021“It was the first time I found myself in front of a glacier, alone in the infinite silence and solitude of the snow mountain, surrounded by the overwhelming majesty of nature…”
5 Questions: furniture and works of art dealer Nicholas Wells
18 January 2021Nicholas Wells has run Nicholas Wells Antiques in London since 2012, selling furniture and works of art primarily in the British town and country house aesthetic.
London fair provides folk art platform via the internet
11 January 2021Folk art is in the spotlight at the first digital edition of The London Art Fair.
BADA’s first female chairman looks to virtual world with a human touch
11 January 2021New BADA chairman feels personal contact is still vital for firms in a Covid-19 environment
5 Questions: Tom Parry of Chester’s Farm Antiques
11 January 2021Tom Parry runs Chester’s Farm Antiques in Nottinghamshire and specialises in decorative arts, including ceramics, jewellery and silver.
Picasso and Hugo partnership platters appear in first UK show
11 January 2021Though prolific in many mediums, Pablo Picasso created silver platters in only 24 designs throughout his entire career, creating an even smaller number of pieces in gold.
The web shop window: ornate Renaissance pearl pendant
11 January 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Tune in to a group of folk zingers
21 December 2020Simple folk art depictions stuffed full of charm prove highly attractive to buyers at Dreweatts' auction.
'More affordable' alternatives to the very top names at Roseberys
21 December 2020An array of affordable alternatives to the blue-chip names in Modern British art generated strong bidding at Roseberys' (25% buyer’s premium) auction.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1600 including a Harry Fidler oil
21 December 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Harry Fidler oil.
Venetian works by ‘follower of’ Canaletto make big sums in their own right
19 October 2020A high-quality veduta of Venice by one of Canaletto’s followers was the runaway star at Chorley’s (22.5/15/12.5/10% buyer’s premium) two-day auction in Gloucestershire.
Portuguese works pop into Chichester saleroom
19 October 2020A pair of late oil landscapes by Silva Porto (1850-93), a pioneer of naturalism in Portugal whose works appear rarely outside his home country, drew multiple bids at Chichester saleroom Henry Adams (20% buyer’s premium).
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1700 including a Sylvia Gosse street scene
19 October 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Sylvia Gosse street scene.
Humbert Craig’s Irish outlook brings benefit to Locke & England
19 October 2020Irish artist James Humbert Craig’s (1877-1944) passion for the outdoors and landscape painting took him frequently to Donegal, Connemara and the glens of Antrim.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2000 including a Louisa Canziani oil on canvas
28 September 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Louisa Canziani painting.