Oil, Acrylic paintings & Mixed Media

Cumbria saleroom Mitchells (22% buyer’s premium) broke its own auction record for Percy Kelly (1918-93) this autumn.

Lot 586 at Henry Aldridge’s (22% buyer’s premium) latest two-day sale was one of the more curious lots to appear at auction in recent times.

While prices for the painter Dod Procter (1891-1972) have been rising over the last decade or so, a big jump in terms of her auction record came at Bonhams (28/27% buyer’s premium) latest sale of works by Modern British women artists in London.

A painting of Mary Magdalene by Ambrosius Benson (c.1495-1550) drew dramatic competition at a recent US auction.

A portrait of King Edward VI that sold at a Roseberys auction earlier this year has gone on public display at Hampton Court Palace.

A Madonna and Child painting, catalogued as by an ‘Italian Old Master’, took an astonishing £685,000 hammer price at an auction in Banbury.

Demand for rare topographical pictures remains an area of strength in the art market.

A rare collaborative work by Duncan Grant (1885-1978) and his lover, the Russian-American artist George Bergen (1903-84), has sold at auction to Charleston, the East Sussex farmhouse where the painting was created.

A work described as ‘one of the finest and most intricately conceived’ of Gustav Klimt’s (1862-1918) full-length portraits will be the headline lot at the auction of the Leonard A. Lauder collection at Sotheby’s in November.

A pair of characterful studies of cranes, a penguin and a boatbill heron set a high price for Henry Stacy Marks (1829-98) at Lyon & Turnbull (26% buyer’s premium) in Edinburgh earlier this month.

A previously unknown depiction of Christ on the cross believed to have been painted by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) has emerged at French auction house Osenat.

Two Dutch and Flemish Old Masters offered fresh to the market and with a sense of rediscovery drew notable competition at Woolley & Wallis’ latest Old Masters, British & European Paintings sale.