Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3500 including a Harold Riley limited-edition print
16 March 2020Three works selling at regional sales below £3500, including a print of 'Lowry Walking on Swinton Moss' by Harold Riley.
Lowry harbour scene: more to mum’s taste
16 March 2020It was scenes of pleasure boats at Lytham St Anne’s on the Lancashire coast like the one shown below that Lowry’s mother supposedly favoured over her son’s darker industrial scenes.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2500 including an Edith Lawrence linocut
09 March 2020Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including an Edith Lawrence linocut.
Sybil Atteck labourer works well to sell
09 March 2020This portrait study is by Sybil Atteck (1911-75), a pioneering artist in Trinidad and Tobago of Chinese descent known for her work in watercolour.