Modern British Art

Booming regional auction house points to experience and contacts as key to source high calibre works

A US-based vendor cashed in when a portrait by Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) of his lover Evelyn St George sold at Sotheby’s for more than double the amount it had fetched less than four months earlier at a New Jersey auction.

Prior to the 16th century, tempera, a mix of egg and pigment, was the method of choice for most artists.

Artists who had been achieving modest levels of success are catching up with the help of young collectors

Enormous slice of Soho culture and history features in gallery’s 25th anniversary show

A cross-section of the work of Terence Cuneo (1907-96) featured as part of Sworders’ latest sale of Modern and Contemporary Art in Stansted Mountfitchet.

Modern British painter depicted local life in west London including pub interiors and characters

In 1920 the artist Christopher Wood (1901-30) came to Paris, having been invited by the French collector Alphonse Kahn.

A rare version of Eric Ravilious' Child’s Handkerchief print and a scarcely seen Doulton figure emerged in North Yorkshire

Latest dedicated exhibition at St James’s gallery includes another special look at the work of female artists

Just weeks after a new auction record for Anne Brooke (1916-2002) was achieved in the regions (see ATG No 2659), two more works by the Yorkshire-born painter attracted a flurry of bids in a Newcastle saleroom.