Modern British Art

Paintings, sculptures and prints made by 20th century British artists. Big names in this sector include Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash and LS Lowry.


Charles Haslewood Shannon portrait

Shannon portrait turns heads at Surrey auction

28 August 2025

Among the most eye-catching pictures that emerged at the summer auctions around the country were a couple of early 20th century portraits of young women.

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Trade asked to look out for missing Lowry football match picture

25 August 2025

The art and antiques trade is being asked to look out for a Lowry painting that had been consigned to now collapsed gallery Trinity House Paintings.

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ATG letter: My recommendation for a fine place to see fine art – New Art Gallery Walsall

25 August 2025

I enjoyed perusing your recommendations of museums’ special exhibitions to see in your annual Summer Supplement a few weeks ago (ATG No 2699).

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Hockney salutes a slap-up meal

25 August 2025

Photo included in latest Armchair catalogue captures him enjoying the good life at Glyndebourne

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Cardiff gallery sets out a path to Mills

25 August 2025

This 2018 ink and pastel on paper 'Yn y Dyffryn - Y Llwybr' (In the Valley - The Path) by Welsh artist Eleri Mills is among the works on offer at Cardiff’s Celf Gallery.

Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture

Yorkshire museum to buy Barbara Hepworth sculpture after fundraising plea

19 August 2025

The Hepworth Wakefield and Art Fund have successfully raised £3.8m after a public appeal to save Barbara Hepworth’s 'Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) Pale Blue and Red'.

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Moore and Chadwick matched up in Mayfair

18 August 2025

Henry Moore and Lynn Chadwick occupy the top tier of Modern British sculptors, each with an artistic output that was both highly individual and instantly recognisable.

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Edinburgh auction pays homage to influential dealer Gillian Raffles

18 August 2025

Gillian Raffles (1930-2021) was one of a very small number of pioneering female gallerists in Britain’s post-war art scene.

Flowers in a Jar by Duncan Grant and George Bergen

Sussex saleroom to offer rare collaborative Bloomsbury Group artwork

12 August 2025

Gorringe’s is selling a significant Bloomsbury Group painting in September.

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A John Nash Buckinghamshire scene is among five lots to watch

11 August 2025

With estimates from £80, here are five previews of upcoming items.

Spanish Roof by Peter Jackson

Large body of work by artist Peter Jackson hits the auction block in Suffolk

06 August 2025

In an auction that helped establish a secondary market for the artist and sculptor Peter Jackson (1930-2019), Suffolk saleroom Lacy Scott & Knight (22.5% buyer’s premium) offered a group of 245 works from the collection of the artist’s widow.

Fake or Fortune mystery

Fake or Fortune? Does this artwork have the hand of artist Frances Hodgkins?

05 August 2025

The latest in the new 'Fake or Fortune?' series featured a work possibly by Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947).

Florence Hess painting

New high for Florence Hess as cook’s pictures are served up at auction

05 August 2025

Tennants’ latest picture sale in Leyburn featured a group of 26 British Impressionist paintings relating to the artistic communities at Staithes and Fylingdales in North Yorkshire. They raised a hammer total of £32,180.

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ATG letter: My thoughts on Ethel Walker, John Ward and Prince Charles…

04 August 2025

I always enjoy Alex Capon’s excellent Art Market reports and was particularly interested in the Ethel Walker painting (ATG No 2702), which sold at at David Duggleby’s Scarborough saleroom for an impressive £24,500.

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Ruskin Spear's portrait of Margaret Thatcher bags attention as part of prime ministers picture line-up

04 August 2025

A set of pictures thought to be the largest collection of portraits of British prime ministers in private hands emerged at Sloane Street Auctions (26.5% buyer’s premium) earlier this summer.

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Immerse yourself in John Miller’s art

04 August 2025

Image of room with indoor swimming pool is set to star in second auction staged by Messum’s

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Two Churchill maquettes by Oscar Nemon appear at auction seven days apart

04 August 2025

When Clementine Ogilvy Spencer Churchill, the wife of Sir Winston, first saw a now-famous bronze sculpture by Oscar Nemon showing her late husband reclining in his seat, she remarked: “This is how I see him and that is how I love him.”

Fowey Harbour by Joseph Southall

‘Charming and dream-like’ Joseph Southall picture sails to £30,000 at Tennants

30 July 2025

The highest auction price for Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) for eight years came at Tennants (24% buyer’s premium) latest British, European & Sporting Art sale.

Charleston by Duncan Grant

Bloomsbury pictures come to the fore at York saleroom’s first Modern Art sale

29 July 2025

Three Bloomsbury Group paintings, two by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) and one by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), lit up the inaugural Modern Art sale at Duggleby Stephenson of York (25% buyer’s premium).

Moon Jug by Ben Nicholson

Jerwood expands collection with Nicholson auction purchase

23 July 2025

Arts charity Jerwood Foundation has purchased another Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) artwork.

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