Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £900 including a scene by 'Derbyshire's John Constable'
15 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £900, including a Trevor Grimshaw black and grey graphite cityscape, and three upcoming lots offered the next fortnight.
Buyers check out a Czech artist
15 October 2018Earlier this year, the Paris auction house Artcurial sold an exceptional collection of Impressionist and Cubist works by the influential Czech avant-garde artist Otakar Kubin (1883-1969).
Signature of John Sell Cotman is key note to £20,000 result
15 October 2018This watercolour bearing the signature of Norwich School artist John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) attracted a flurry of bids when it went under the hammer in Nottingham.
Gertler ‘East Ender’ portrait sells up north
15 October 2018Renowned today for his fusion of Post- Impressionism and eastern European folk-art, the Jewish painter Mark Gertler (1891-1939) was inspired at the outset of his career by the northern and early-Italian Renaissance masters.
Coaches trot into saleroom
15 October 2018Distinctly patriotic in nature, stage and mail coach depictions started c.1815, reaching peak popularity in the later 1820s with the artist James Pollard (1792-1867).
Affordable art: Six works sold or offered for under £900 including an 18th century print of a Joseph Wright of Derby masterwork
10 October 2018Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £900 and three upcoming lots offered over the next fortnight, including a c.1768 engraving by William Pether after a masterwork by the great Joseph Wright of Derby.
Paris dancer swings into sale
08 October 2018Striking depiction of Folies Bergère entertainer is among eclectic selection offered in Sussex.
Poignant portrait of ‘doomed youth’ of the First World War
08 October 2018Pictures, trophies and other mementos were among the contents from a historic nursing home in south-west London dispersed at Ewbank’s (22.5% buyer’s premium).
Portrait subject spurs bidder to a high price
08 October 2018Standing proud in full riding wear, this early 20th century portrait of a female rider and her two terriers, below, struck a chord with bidders in Sussex.
Cursiter returns to his Orkney roots
08 October 2018The remote rocky islands of Orkney were a source of continued inspiration for the prolific Scottish painter Stanley Cursiter (1887-1976).
