Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including a Sara Wells Page portrait
18 November 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Sara Wells Page portrait.
Canine study makes tidy sum
11 November 2019A flurry of bids emerged for this late-17th century canine study at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood of Exeter (23% buyer’s premium).
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £2800 including a Graham Sutherland watercolour.
11 November 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Graham Sutherland watercolour.
Female artists in the frame
11 November 2019The growing demand in recent years to own pictures by women artists has brought this long-overlooked area of the art market to the fore. In an auction at Cirencester auction house Dominic Winter (20% buyer’s premium) two works by women painters stood out.
Stannard stands out in saleroom
11 November 2019Focus on one of only two notable women painters to be associated with the Norwich School.
Rossetti depicts father and son
11 November 2019A crayon portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) surfaced at Oxford saleroom Mallams (22.5% buyer’s premium) together with another of the sitter’s father.
‘One of the best’ by Arnesby Brown
11 November 2019Like John Constable before him, the 19th century painter John Arnesby Brown (1866-1955) found endless inspiration in the low horizons and expansive skies of East Anglia. He was also interested in light and atmosphere and the effect of sunshine and shadow on the landscape.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3250 including a Stanley Spencer sketch
04 November 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales including a Stanley Spencer sketch.
View of Swansea street before the bombs
04 November 2019A 1940s view of Swansea described as ‘historically important’ by the auction house which sold it featured among some good results for 20th century Welsh art in the regions.
Nicholson lights up Somerset sale
04 November 2019Simple still-life of flowers showcases the Mod Brit artist’s love of colour and luminosity
Tudor manor houses artistic gems from across the centuries
28 October 2019The old-fashioned country house sale hardly ever fails to cause excitement. The on-the-premises sale of contents from Athelhampton House, a Tudor manor house in Puddletown, Dorset, was no exception.
Affordable art: Three works sold for under £3000 including a Peter Blake fictitious wrestler work
28 October 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales for under £3000 including an unusual Peter Blake work printed on tin.
Apollo heads over to Staffs saleroom
28 October 2019Dominating a grand lecture hall of one of France’s oldest universities is a classical fresco of the god Apollo and the Muses on Parnasses, created at the turn of the 20th century by French artist Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).
The sound result of the suburbs
28 October 2019Classic summer scene by artist known for neighbourhood views makes rare appearance
Guinness is toast of Irish sales
21 October 2019Cubist work by often-overlooked artist fuels keen bidding before heading to California.
Ornithological auction flyers from renowned masters
21 October 2019Two modestly estimated watercolours by the Victorian ornithological painter Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) emerged as the star sellers in an auction in South Yorkshire.
View of Indian procession marches onwards at auction
14 October 2019Views of processions, pageants and parades tend to attract special interest at auction, such as this view of an Indian procession bid to £6800 in Gloucestershire.
Paula Rego prints bring success stories
14 October 2019Much of Paula Rego’s (b.1935) work is concerned with narrative, as seen in this limited-edition lithograph of a girl reading a book.
Two Mod Brit works back on market in Dorset saleroom
14 October 2019Oil paintings by two significant names in Modern British art made their first appearances on the market in decades at an auction in Dorset.
Affordable art: Three works sold for £1250 or under including an Agnes Miller Parker woodcut
14 October 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales for £1250 or under, including an Agnes Miller Parker woodcut.