Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Buyers go to great lengths to acquire portraits with a personal connection to the sitter
18 March 2019Some areas of the secondary pictures market march to their own beat, appearing to defy the usual forces that determine value. Ancestral paintings are such a category.
Previews: £2001 - £5000
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £30,000 plus
18 March 2019A selection of post-war Italian pieces from the interiors of Casa Lucano, a large apartment in Milan designed by Gio Ponti in 1951, will be offered in a joint auction by Phillips and Italian auction house Cambi in London on March 21.
Affordable art: Three works priced at £1000 and under in regional auctions including a head study by Victorian painter Joshua Hargrave Sams Mann
18 March 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales at £1000 and below, including an oval oil head study by the Victorian painter Joshua Hargrave Sams Mann (1826-88).
Previews: £5001 - £30,000
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: Up to £500
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Previews: £501 - £2000
18 March 2019ATG’s weekly selection of items on sale at auctions and dealerships.
Rare work by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky draws admirers at Chiswick Auctions
18 March 2019Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-96) was one of those artists who took little pleasure in selling their work. Indeed, Motesiczky’s obituary in The Independent described her “aristocratic disdain for the marketplace” and stated that “while she half welcomed exhibitions, they remained uncomfortable experiences… she never needed to sell her paintings, indeed she preferred to keep them around her.”
Five lots to watch at auction this week including prestigious Georgian-style entrance gates and a Charles II sterling silver tankard
11 March 2019With estimates from £500-25,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Edward Seago captures East Anglian atmosphere
11 March 2019Edward Seago (1910-74), perhaps the best-known 20th century artist who lived and worked almost exclusively in Norfolk, captured the atmosphere of his beloved East Anglia with sweeping compositions and a delicate palette.
Catching the Gosse in Ipswich auction
11 March 2019Sylvia Gosse (1881-1968) was perhaps the best known of the women artists who worked closely with Camden Town Group luminary Walter Sickert.
Craigie Aitchison is a good man to cross
11 March 2019Scottish artist Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009) painted few subjects more obsessively throughout his career than the crucifixion.
Cupboard opens up interest in Frederick Gore and Frank Avary Wilson
11 March 2019Post-war art stored in a cupboard for “many years” by an academic institution in Leicestershire drew strong bidding for two British artists in particular at Derbyshire saleroom Hansons (20% buyer’s premium).
Burmese scene by royal artist Gerald Kelly draws interest at Sworders
11 March 2019Among the lots drawing keen interest at Sworders’ Modern British and 20th century sale in Essex on February 26 was a privately consigned 2ft x 2ft 8in (61 x 83cm) oil on canvas of Burmese women collecting water by Royal portraitist Gerald Kelly (1879-1972).
Sheila Robinson – an artist tutored by Bawden – doubles estimate at Cheffins
11 March 2019A 16 x 15in (42 x 38cm) linocut by Great Bardfield artist Sheila Robinson (1925-88) more than doubled its estimate to sell for £1000 at Cheffins (22.5% buyer’s premium) of Cambridge.