Modern British Art

Berkshire-born artist Eliot Hodgkin (1905-87) is known for his highly detailed still-lifes of natural objects, depicting subjects ranging from fruit and vegetables to eggs and pastries.

Treasure House Fair has partnered with Southampton City Art Gallery to host a special exhibition on British surrealism running during the fair's fourth staging this summer.

The Royal Air Force Museum has purchased two preparatory drawings for major wartime paintings by Walter Thomas Monnington (1902-76).

Drawing competition between six phone bidders, a rare work depicting St Ives in Cornwall by David Bomberg (1890-1957) flew above estimate at Newcastle saleroom Anderson & Garland’s latest Modern Art & Design auction.

The collection of art and books amassed by one of Britain’s most influential critics of the post-war era, the late John Russell Taylor (1935-2025), has been consigned to west London saleroom Olympia Auctions.

Wartime scenes by Paul Nash (1889-1946) are a seminal part of his oeuvre, especially his famous series of paintings from 1917-19 showing the blasted landscape of the Western Front.

Arts charity Jerwood Foundation has purchased a William Coldstream (1908-87) sketch from an art dealer in Somerset.

Location, location, location. Just as with property, so with the pictures of Suffolk’s own Leonard Russell Squirrell (1893-1979).

Works by the multi-faceted Scottish wood-engraver, book illustrator, painter and teacher Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980) come to the market only occasionally, and when they do emerge they are almost always prints.

Among the high prices for pictures at auction towards the tail-end of 2025 were a string of significant sums in the Modern British market.