Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Hellenistic gold bracelets offered in Bavaria
14 September 2020This elegant pair of finely worked early Hellenistic gold bracelets featuring a rather sympathetic and graceful rendering of the snake-haired gorgon Medusa are believed to have been made by a courtly goldsmith workshop during the 4th-3rd century BC.
All about information sharing
31 August 2020Wider spectrum of buyers means presenting catalogue entries in greater detail can pay off
Old Master canine portrait makes over 100-times estimate at Tennants
31 August 2020Two pictures with animal appeal generated decent bidding at a North Yorkshire auction.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2100 including a Harry Clarke stained-glass window design
31 August 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Harry Clarke.
Selling rate strong for Scottish art
10 August 2020Just three lots unsold in Edinburgh auction as private and international bidders dominate
Thorburns break from country house cover
10 August 2020The contents of a country house in Exmouth turned up not one but two large watercolours by Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935), the pre-eminent British painter of ornithological subjects.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1500 including a John Miller Greek beach view
10 August 2020Good art at a great price in regional sales
Auerbach’s theatrical flourish in Scarborough
06 April 2020An unsigned Frank Auerbach (b.1931) sketch in coloured inks of Camden Theatre in London, a favourite subject of the artist, emerged as the top-selling lot at Scarborough saleroom David Duggleby (22.5% buyer’s premium).
Illuminating artworks sold at Whyte’s in Ireland
06 April 2020The ROSC art exhibitions – ‘rosc’ being an Irish word roughly translated as ‘the poetry of vision’ – were the first major series of large-scale international art shows in Ireland.
New Romantic in tune
30 March 2020Impressionistic pastoral landscapes, often featuring cattle, are the signature works of John Alfred Arnesby Brown (1866-1955).
Traveller ends up in Cornwall
30 March 2020The Limerick-born painter Norman Garstin (1847-1926) was an engineer, architect, and a diamond prospector before he settled on art as a career.
Cuneo captures the last of steam
30 March 2020Painting of Evening Star reflects end of an era as coal-fired locomotives started to hit the buffers.
The joys of a simple life from William Conor
30 March 2020Irish painter William Conor (1881-1968) received many official commissions during a prolific artistic career, including from King George V, but it was his warm and sympathetic portrayals of working-class life in Ulster that are best known today.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including a William Gear acrylic painting
30 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a William Gear acrylic painting.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £1500 including a Rosalie Emslie watercolour
23 March 2020Three works selling at regional sales below £1500, including a Rosalie Emslie watercolour.
Drawing on expertise of Fitzwilliam director
23 March 2020Two Italian Mannerist chalk drawings emerged as the top sellers in a section of Old Master drawings and prints at Cirencester saleroom Dominic Winter.
‘A crapshooter throwing dice’
23 March 2020Paul Jenkins (1923-2012), an American Abstract artist and member of the New York School, was born in Kansas City. He worked at a ceramics factory in his youth, an experience that heavily influenced his tactile methods of painting.
Cunning plan for Blackadder estate
23 March 2020Houstoun-Boswall consignment includes Robert Adam’s proposal for Scottish country house
Release the Lock and get into Gear for Modernist art
16 March 2020London became the training ground for many young South African artists during the inter-war years. Among them was Cape Town painter Freida Lock (1902-62) who attended Heatherley School of Art and the Central School of Art where she was introduced to the works of post-Impressionists such as Van Gogh, Cézanne and Braque.
Top of the Lowry prints league
16 March 2020Limited-edition work showing Salford artist’s famous football scene nets a new high