Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
19 April 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £30,000 plus
19 April 2019A collaborative portrait between two revered 19th century equestrian painters will lead a sale of sporting art at Essex saleroom Sworders on April 30.
Lindisfarne watercolour by Alfred Heaton Cooper sells at over 10-times estimate
19 April 2019A watercolour of Lindisfarne Priory off the Northumberland coast sold for more than 12 times its guide at Taunton saleroom Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19.5% buyer’s premium).
Previews: Up to £500
19 April 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Spiky Souza sparks bidding battle at Dreweatts
19 April 2019A drawing by the Indian artist Francis Newton Souza (1924- 2004) which he created on the verge of finding international fame in the 1950s drew intense bidding at a recent Dreweatts (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) auction.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
19 April 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including Mod Brit art, a ‘bone shaker’ bicycle and a rare map
15 April 2019With estimates from £80-30,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Gorringe’s sale puts Modern British art to Old Masters in the mix
15 April 2019Flemish Old Masters and Modern works combined to boost takings at two spring sales held north and south in England.
Size matters for Albert Goodwin group
15 April 2019A significant collection of pictures by the Victorian watercolourist Albert Goodwin (1845-1932) was a near sell-out at auction in Suffolk and generated just under £120,000.
Myles Birket Foster continental scenes bring demand at English auctions
15 April 2019After abandoning his early career as a contributor to Punch and the Illustrated London News, Myles Birket Foster (1825-99) went on to establish his reputation as a painter of technically skilled and highly polished watercolours, depicting landscapes and rustic subjects from Scotland to the Mediterranean.
Five lots to watch at auction this week including an Egyptian scarab beetle and a singing bird box
08 April 2019With estimates from £250-30,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Grave concerns over Eric Gill
08 April 2019This headstone design of a female nude by the controversial sculptor Eric Gill (1882-1940) was deemed too risky to be realised when he designed it in 1933.
Two Bawden pier versions appear at auction a day apart
08 April 2019Two versions of Edward Bawden’s (1903-89) famous 'Brighton Pier' linocut came up at UK auctions within a day of each other.