Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Dutch artist’s Indonesian work emerges in Taunton
20 November 2017A market-fresh drawing of a Balinese lady by the Dutch artist Willem Gerard Hofker (1902-81) soared to £8500 at Greenslade Taylor Hunt (19% buyer’s premium) in Taunton.
Soviet artwork in London spotlight
20 November 2017Soviet art is in the spotlight this month as the London salerooms mark the anniversary year of the 1917 Russian Revolution with a series of trophy consignments to Russian Art Week.
An ice price in Yorkshire auction
13 November 2017British and Irish watercolours piqued the interest of bidders at Tennants’ (18.5% buyer’s premium) Country House sale in Leyburn on October 14.
Wartime letters to ‘Queenie’ up at auction
13 November 2017Cirencester auction house Moore Allen & Innocent will offer a cache of uncensored letters written by a prominent First World War officer.
Keeping it Surreal in Dorset
13 November 2017A collection of market-fresh pictures with a distinctive Surrealist streak found favour with buyers at Charterhouse (21% buyer’s premium) in Dorset.
Early Brits Fitz the bill at 25 Blythe Road auction
13 November 2017Fitzroy Square to the north of central London was a key location in early 20th century British art. Virginia Woolf lived here for several years, a few doors down from Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler also had a studio.
Cecil Kennedy shows petal power
13 November 2017This archetypal still-life by Cecil Kennedy (1905-97) topped Halls’ (20% buyer’s premium) £300,000 auction on October 18.
Outsider art starts to find acceptance
06 November 2017The value of ‘Outsider’ art continues to grow following the dispersal of one of the UK’s largest collections at Anderson & Garland (25% buyer’s premium).
Peploe hair pin pic secured by his grandson at auction
06 November 2017A brace of unrecorded pastels by celebrated Scottish Colourist SJ Peploe (1871-1935) sold strongly at Lawrences (22% buyer’s premium) in Crewkerne.
