Latest News Articles by Gabriel Berner
Chelsea heads up at auction
08 January 2018The late Gerald and Brenda Flowerday caught the collecting bug in the late 1960s, igniting a keen interest in 18th century English ceramics that would last for the next 40 years.
Second slice of West Horsley Place contents sale is in East Sussex
02 January 2018Following the multi-million-pound sale at Sotheby’s in 2015, more items from West Horsley Place, the remarkable Grade I listed mansion in Surrey, are to be sold at auction to raise money for urgent repairs.
ART MARKET: Political historian Peter Mangold's home became a Mod Brit treasure trove
02 January 2018Art assembled by Peter Mangold, the late political historian, led a strong line-up of Modern British pictures at Woolley & Wallis (25% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury.
Great Bardfield proves fertile ground for local saleroom in Essex
02 January 2018The so-called ‘Great Bardfield Artists’, named after the Essex village where a community of painters and designers lived from the 1930s onwards, has become fertile ground for local auction house Sworders (22% buyer’s premium).
Sculpture makes its Mod Brit mark at Oxford auction
02 January 2018“Modern British sculpture is making extremely good money at the moment – it is a market moving as quickly, if not slightly quicker, than paintings.” So said Philip Smith, department head of Mallams (20% buyer’s premium).
Picture captures the lonely feel of Lowry art
02 January 2018A market-fresh figure study by Mod Brit giant LS Lowry (1887-1976), pictured below, topped the sale at Woolley & Wallis.
Suffolk railwayana steams into sale
18 December 2017More than 400 lots of railwayana, assembled from the 1950s onwards by a single collector, will be offered at Norfolk auction house TW Gaze on January 5.
Chiswick Auctions relives Beltrame theme
11 December 2017The theme of death was of particular interest to the Italian industrialist Giancarlo Beltrame (1925-2011).
