Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
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.
Modern British female artists: the auction scene
11 March 2019Women artists – historically overlooked in scholarship and undervalued on the market – have emerged more and more at auction over the last few years.
Six lots to watch at auction this week including an Elizabethan jug, a Constable sketch and a German Expressionist painting
04 March 2019With estimates from £100-$50,000, here are six previews from upcoming sales this week.
Select offering in London covers wide-ranging scope
04 March 2019Bonhams’ (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) latest sale of 19th century pictures in London may have been small – running to just over 100 lots – but what it lacked in size it made up with the broad scope of its contents.
Orientalist collection back in saleroom for first time in three decades
04 March 2019Helped by conservatively pitched estimates, a clutch of middle-market Orientalist pictures achieved some modest growth in value on their first return to auction in three decades.
Burne-Jones drawing heads to four-times estimate
04 March 2019This study (below) was one of 10 drawings by Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98) consigned by an unidentified charitable trust to Bonhams’ 19th Century European, Victorian and British Impressionist Art sale on February 20.
Affordable art: Three works priced under £800 in regional auctions including an 18th century portrait with an heraldic crest
04 March 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £800, including an 18th century oil on canvas
Five lots to watch at auction this week including a Gothic Revival clock and a George II mahogany table
25 February 2019With estimates from £100-50,000, here are five previews from upcoming sales this week.
Affordable art: Three works priced under £1700 in regional auctions including a Francis Cyril Rose self-portrait
25 February 2019Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £1700, including a a Francis Cyril Rose self-portrait.
Fiery laird and a more sedate Seago star in Surrey sale
25 February 2019Drawing interest from the US was a portrait of a fierce-looking Scottish laird by John Pettie (1839-93).